According to the reports the death toll in Gaza had reached to 1712
Palestinians gather around the lifeless body of Raghad Masoud, 34 months, who was killed in an Israeli strike, after she was laid in a freezer as the hospital morgue was full at Rafah refugee camp, in southern Gaza Strip, on Monday. (Photo: AP)
Gaza City: Pictures tweeted by doctors and journalists from Gaza, showing bodies of children who died due to Israeli air strikes, placed in ice cream freezers have sparked outrage on social media.
According to the reports Rafah's main Najjar hospital was closed after being hit in a recent strike, due to which only two clinics were functioning, with medics rapidly running out of space to store the growing pile of bodies. In one, an AFP correspondent witnessed the bodies of four small children packed into an ice cream freezers.
Palestinian medics carry the lifeless body of Raghad Masoud, 34 months,
who was killed in an Israeli strike, to place her in a freezer as the
hospital morgue was full at Rafah refugee camp, in southern Gaza Strip,
on Monday. (Photo: AP)
Al-Jazeera journalist Femi Oke tweeted.
If you can handle it follow @DrBasselAbuward. He shared this: #Gaza child in ice cream fridge, no space in morgues. pic.twitter.com/SPPoHNH1zq
— Femi Oke (@FemiOke) August 3, 2014Child killed, 30 hurt in Gaza City air strike during lull
Palestinian families who fled their homes due to fighting between
Hamas and Israel take shelter at a U.N.-run school in Gaza City on
Sunday. (Photo: AP)
A child was killed and 30 people wounded in an Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in Gaza City on Monday just minutes into an Israeli-declared truce, medics said. The strike hit a house in the beachfront Shati refugee camp, killing an eight-year-old girl, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP.
Witnesses and several AFP correspondents reported hearing the whistle of a missile fired from an F16 warplane before it crashed into a house wedged between two tall buildings inside the camp. An AFP correspondent said the strike hit at 0706 GMT - ie six minutes into the lull. The Israeli army said it was looking into the incident, but gave no further comment.
With only a narrow alley leading to the house, it was not possible to get rescue equipment to the scene, with a long line of people passing out chunks of rubble by hand, an AFP correspondent said. The strike cause the house to pancake, leaving only a very narrow gap for rescuers to get inside, some of whom were bloodying themselves in the effort, he said.
From within, they managed to pull the body of a young girl wearing pyjamas whose spine appeared to be broken in several places, with rescuers struggling to get her onto a stretcher, he said. Earlier on Monday, the Israeli army announced a unilateral seven-hour lull, to begin at 0700 GMT.
Hamas said it would not be observing the truce, and warned people to exercise extreme caution when venturing out onto the streets after earlier temporary ceasefire arrangements collapsed into a frenzy of bloodshed.
British PM says UN 'right' to condemn Gaza school strike
A woman overcome by emotion stands between dead bodies and
wounded Palestinians outside a UN run school in Rafah, in the
southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday. (Photo: AP)
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday that the United Nations was "right" to condemn the shelling of a UN school in Gaza, but declined to say whether it breached international law. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the attack on a school in Rafah on Sunday, which killed 10 Palestinians who were sheltering there, was a "moral outrage and a criminal act".
Cameron told the BBC: "The UN has spoken very clearly and I think they're right to speak very clearly. "International law is clear that it's completely wrong and illegal to target civilians, if that's what's happened." Asked if he believed that international law had been broken, the prime minister said: "I'm not an international lawyer, so it's up to the international lawyers.
"But international law is very, very clear that the use of force always has to be proportionate, that civilians should not be targeted." Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday he was "appalled" at the civilian casualties caused by the attack on the UN-run school. The strike has sparked world outrage, with the United States calling for a "full and prompt" investigation and France saying it was "unacceptable".
Earlier Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "Israel does not aim its fire at civilians and is sorry for any attack that unintentionally hits civilians," without directly addressing the attack on the school. Israel announced it was holding its fire in most of Gaza for seven hours on Monday between 0700 GMT and 1400 GMT except the area east of Rafah.
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