Dozens killed in Gaza shelter bombing amid rising international outcry

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A bombardment in Gaza killed at least 28 with the Palestinian Health Minister confirming the victims were largely civilians. The attack, which targeted a shelter, has drawn international condemnation. Meanwhile, Hamas and Fatah are discussing forming a temporary committee for aid distribution in Gaza, but no agreement has been reached.   #Gaza #HumanitarianCrisis #CiviliansInConflict #GlobalResponse

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00:00Well, 28 people were killed. Some more people are dying. According to the Palestinian Health,

00:06two more people were killed and 92 others were injured. Some of the people who are injured

00:11are critically, critically injured, and they are now struggling for their life. The situation

00:16is extremely catastrophic. The bombardment that hit the place was very powerful that

00:21it took the life of the 28 people and injured the 92. The UNRWA is also upset about the

00:27situation. They have been condemning the targeting of the shelters and they have been seen in

00:32that as a targeting of the general life of the population who are not engaging in any

00:36military activities in the area. According to the statistics and the details of the people

00:41who were killed, some people are 87, some people are 66, some people are 85, some people

00:47are 58, some people are 52, some people are children. So the number of the people and

00:54the ages of the people are indicative of the fact that the ones who were inside that shelter,

01:00the internment of those people, are the ones who bore the brunt of that attack and the

01:04ones who paid the heaviest price given the large number of people who were killed, including

01:09some elderly men, women, and children, and also the large number of people who were killed.

01:14The Palestinian Minister of Health made a special statement about that. They have used

01:19as a reference the details and the bio data of the people who were killed to show that

01:23the ones who were the victims of that incident are the Palestinian civilians who were targeted

01:29and who are still being targeted throughout the whole war and who make around two-thirds

01:34of the number of victims in that war. So another incident, another targeting of a shelter,

01:40another condemnation by the international organizations, and another death and funerals

01:45that will be now heading to the graveyards if they have space or they would be burying

01:50people on top of other people who were deceased or dead a few months or a few days or a few

01:55weeks ago. Critical situation, misery that is still continuous in Gaza.

02:00Akram, we're seeing reports that Hamas and its rival, Fatah, may have agreed to form

02:06what's being described as a temporary committee to try to distribute aid in Gaza. Do you know

02:13anything more about that?

02:18According to the information that are leaking from Cairo, no agreement has been reached

02:23yet. There are many contention points that are still being discussed by the two rival

02:27parties. They don't seem to have been close to any agreement so far. Cairo invited them.

02:34Cairo has been pushing both parties to show some concessions for the sake of reaching

02:38a common ground. Politically, they are not reaching a common ground yet, and I think

02:43they are still going to discuss things, and I wouldn't be surprised to know that they

02:47have managed to agree on a specific date in the future to come back to Cairo and discuss

02:53things. The way and also the dynamics between Hamas and Fatah are extremely difficult, and

02:58I don't think, given the political heritage of each of them, they are likely to agree

03:02on something sometime soon.

03:04Akram, thank you for that. Our correspondent Akram Al-Satari in Khan Yunis.

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