Later Sunday, the hospital\u2019s director, Dr Eyad Abu Zaher, said 52 people had been killed, differing from the health ministry\u2019s figure. <\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the houses in the camp was struck. This house was crowded with residents. Its residents were bombed while they were safe in their homes,\u201d added head of nursing Dr. Khalil Al-Daqran. <\/p>\n
The Israeli military did not have an immediate comment as to whether it was targeting the area. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it is looking into the circumstances around the explosion. <\/p>\n
Video taken at the Al-Aqsa Martyr\u2019s Hospital showed multiple bodies laid out under white tarpaulins, including small figures believed to be children, and more bodies were still coming in from the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, said Dr.\u00a0Al-Daqran. <\/p>\n
He said the hospital was not equipped to accept the high number of patients, and the shortage of fuel and supplies made it impossible to adequately treat the wounded. <\/p>\n
The IDF has been pounding Gaza for four weeks with the stated aim of annihilating Hamas, whose fighters breached the Israeli border October 7, killing 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostage. <\/p>\n
Israel has repeatedly urged civilians to move south of Wadi Gaza as it has intensified its\u00a0air and ground assaults across the strip. <\/p>\n
At least 9,472 people have\u00a0been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, according to figures released Sunday by the\u00a0Palestinian\u00a0Ministry\u00a0of\u00a0Health\u00a0in Ramallah that are drawn from sources in the Hamas-controlled enclave. <\/p>\n
Alaloul, a freelance photojournalist\u00a0with the Turkish news agency Anadolu, said his\u00a0home was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Al-Maghazi refugee camp. <\/p>\n
Hospital officials in Gaza have also attributed the explosion to an Israeli airstrike. <\/p>\n
\u201cI saw my son Kenan, my daughter Rahaf, I saw Ahmad my son \u2026 and Qais, my son. I saw my three siblings martyred; I saw friends who were at my house martyred,\u201d Alaloul said. <\/p>\n
On returning to where his home once stood, Alaloul recounted: \u201cMy house was completely destroyed. \u2026 It was full of children, and now, there are still people trapped in the debris in the area that we can\u2019t reach.\u201d <\/p>\n
He said his wife, mother, father and another child were injured. His wife was critically wounded and was admitted to the intensive care unit. <\/p>\n
The Al-Maghazi refugee camp is located in the central part of the coastal enclave south of Wadi Gaza, the waterway that divides north from south Gaza. <\/p>\n
According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA),\u00a0the camp is filled with narrow alleys, where 33,000 people lived before the conflict, in a relatively densely packed area no more than 0.6 square kilometers. <\/p>\n
Jamal Al Aloul, a resident of Al-Maghazi, said he was sleeping soundly when suddenly \u201cthe whole building fell on us.\u201d <\/p>\n
He said his two children were killed in the collapse but he did not know who else had been killed\u00a0because so many people lived in the building. <\/p>\n
\u201cI saw a red light, then we were shaking on the sofa, I saw all my sisters screaming. \u2026 When I found myself alive, I looked to see who is still alive,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
She said moments later she found her father dead. <\/p>\n
Her mother, Sundos Shaqura, said the whole house collapsed suddenly on them, as they shared some tea after their evening prayer. <\/p>\n
The unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza has\u00a0prompted global\u00a0criticism of Israel, with even some of its closest allies calling for a break in the fighting \u2013 either a humanitarian pause or ceasefire \u2013 to allow aid to reach civilians. <\/p>\n
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with\u00a0key Middle Eastern leaders\u00a0at a summit in Jordan on Saturday, when he again rejected\u00a0calls for a ceasefire\u00a0and reiterated US support for \u201chumanitarian pauses.\u201d <\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government\u00a0opposes any temporary ceasefire\u00a0in Gaza unless Hamas frees all the hostages it took during the militant group\u2019s rampage October 7. Netanyahu said Israel would continue to block fuel from entering the enclave. <\/p>\n
Despite Israel\u2019s opposition, Blinken reiterated his calls during an unannounced visit to Iraq on Sunday, saying he had \u201cno doubt\u201d that \u201ceveryone would welcome humanitarian pauses\u201d in Gaza. <\/p>\n
Speaking to the media after his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in Baghdad, Blinken said negotiations on a pause are a \u201cprocess,\u201d but that US and Israeli teams were meeting Sunday to \u201cwork through the specifics, the practicalities of these pauses.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael has raised important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work. We\u2019ve got to answer those questions. We\u2019re working on exactly that,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n
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