Displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on Wednesday were trying to set up the most basic of amenities in their tent encampment—a makeshift water line—when an Israeli drone strike smashed into them. Shrapnel tore through flesh and bone, killing four, wounding nine, and destroying several tents.
“Ali Hassan al-Masri, a nurse, is now a martyr. There are no more words,” the brother of one of those killed told people crowded at the entrance of Al-Aqsa hospital as the bodies arrived in the back of a small pickup truck wrapped in blankets. Al-Masri’s mother rode in the back with them, raising her bloodied hands in the air and wailing in grief. They were among 77 bodies and 222 injured that arrived at hospitals across Gaza over 24 hours, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Thursday morning. ….more
