Gaza mourners express anger in face of strikes

GAZA CITY: Palestinian women wept and wailed on Saturday as they mourned a family killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza City, expressing anger for the bloodshed engulfing the city. Five members of the Bakr family were killed overnight in the strike on Al Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, where Israeli forces have stepped up a ground and air assault. Footage showed women in black abayas crying out in grief, one clutching the small body of her child tightly to her chest.
At the same time, Israel continued to strike other parts of the Gaza Strip, home to more than two million people, most of whom have been displaced at least once since the war began. On Saturday, Gaza's civil defence agency reported that Israeli fire killed at least 23 people across the territory. Footage from a hospital courtyard in central Gaza on Saturday showed several bodies in white shrouds, victims of a strike on Nuseirat refugee camp.
Piles of concrete blocks and gaping holes marked the site of the strike that hit a building in the camp. Groups of men and children picked through the debris, salvaging what they could of their belongings. Israel's military offensive has since killed at least 65,926 people, mostly civilians, figures the United Nations deems reliable. — AFP