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The body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli airstrike, is carried into the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. As Israeli warplanes pummel Gaza to avenge the Hamas attack, Palestinians say the military has largely unleashed its fury on civilians. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital is overflowing as Israeli attacks intensify

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A view of the rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Israel has launched intense airstrikes in Gaza after the territory's militant rulers carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel Saturday, killing more than 900 people and taking captives. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in the airstrikes. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel pounds downtown Gaza City, vowing punishing retaliation for weekend attack

By Josef Federman and Issam Adwan - Associated Press

Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Rockets streamed out of Gaza and Israel pounded the territory with airstrikes early Wednesday as the most severe outbreak of violence since the 2014 war took on many of the hallmarks of that devastating 50-day conflict, with no endgame in sight. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Escalating Mideast violence bears hallmarks of 2014 Gaza war

By Fares Akram and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

A Palestinian man inspects the rubble of a partially destroyed residential building after it was hit by Israeli missile strikes, at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, early Tuesday, May. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Israeli airstrikes hit Hamas commander’s home, Gaza tunnels

By Fares Akram and Karin Laub - Associated Press

Mourners chant angry slogans as they carry the body of Palestinian Hamas police officer, Wael Khalifa, 45, in the family home, during his funeral in the Buriej refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. Khalifa and two other Hamas police officers were killed in explosions that ripped through police checkpoints in Gaza City overnight, Hamas' interior ministry said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gazans bury policemen killed in rare attacks within strip

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

An explosion caused by Israeli airstrikes is seen from the offices of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, in Gaza City, Monday, March 25, 2019. Israeli forces on Monday struck targets across the Gaza Strip in response to a surprise rocket attack from the Palestinian territory, as the military beefed up troops and rocket-defense systems in anticipation of a new round of heavy fighting with the Islamic militant Hamas group. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza tense after Israel, Hamas exchange heavy fire overnight

By Aron Heller and Fares Akram - Associated Press

An explosion caused by Israeli airstrikes is seen on Gaza City, early Friday, Friday, March 15, 2019. Israeli warplanes attacked militant targets in the southern Gaza Strip early Friday in response to a rare rocket attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, as the sides appeared to be hurtling toward a new round of violence. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel-Gaza fighting ebbs; Gaza rockets reportedly a misfire

By Josef Federman and Fares Akram - Associated Press

An explosion caused by Israeli airstrikes is seen on Gaza City, early Friday, March 15, 2019. Israeli warplanes attacked militant targets in the southern Gaza Strip early Friday in response to a rare rocket attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, as the sides appeared to be hurtling toward a new round of violence. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel strikes Gaza targets following Tel Aviv rocket attack

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

An Israeli soldier walks by a house damaged by a missile fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018. Palestinian militants bombarded Israel with dozens of rockets and mortar shells Monday, while Israeli warplanes struck targets throughout the Gaza Strip in what appeared to be the most intense exchange of fire since a 2014 war. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Hamas warns of more rocket attacks amid Israel-Gaza fighting

By Aron Heller and Fares Akram - Associated Press

A masked protester chants while others burn tires and waving their national flags near the fence of Gaza Strip border with Israel during a protest east of Gaza City, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. Gaza's Hamas rulers said Friday that deadly protests along Gaza-Israel perimeter fence have achieved some goals; $15 million from Qatar to help pay the salaries of civil servants. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Hamas gets funds from Qatar to pay civil servants’ salaries

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Local Palestinian staff for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency package rice, lentils and chickpeas for refugee families to be distributed in Gaza City. The international agency is one of the biggest employers in an area where the jobless rate is 44 percent. (Photograph by Laura Kelly/The Washington Times)

UNRWA Palestinian refugee agency faces funding cut

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

Israel destroys 2 Gaza high-rises in escalation

By Ibrahim Barzak - Associated Press

Smoke rises as the al-Zafer apartment tower collapses following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a 12-story apartment tower in downtown Gaza City on Saturday, collapsing the building, sending a huge fireball into the sky and wounding at least 22 people, including 11 children, witnesses and Palestinian officials said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli airstrike wounds 10, collapses apartment tower in central Gaza City

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A Palestinian man chants angry slogans as rescue workers search for victims under the rubble of a house destroyed in Israeli strikes in the Rafah refugee camp, Southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Israel kills 3 Hamas military commanders in Gaza

By Karin Laub and Ian Deitch - Associated Press

Smoke and dust rise after an Israeli strike hit Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) ** FILE **

Palestinians: Child killed in airstrike

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Palestinians run for cover during clashes with Israeli soldiers following a protest against the war in the Gaza Strip, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

35 Palestinians killed; Israeli officer missing

By Ibrahim Barzak and Daniel Estrin - Associated Press

Smoke and fire from the explosion of an Israeli strike rise over Gaza City, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Israel escalated its military campaign against Hamas on Tuesday, striking symbols of the group's control in Gaza and firing tank shells that shut down the strip's only power plant in the heaviest bombardment in the fighting so far. The plant&#8217;s shutdown was bound to lead to further serious disruptions of the flow of electricity and water to Gaza&#8217;s 1.7 million people. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel hits symbols of Hamas rule; scores killed

By Karin Laub and Peter Enav - Associated Press

Black smoke billows over the skyline as a fire at the oil depot for the airport rages out of control after being struck in the crossfire of warring militias battling for control of the airfield, in Tripoli, Libya Monday, July 28, 2014. The latest violence to plague the country has so far killed scores of people and wounded hundreds as foreigners flee the chaos. Libya's interim government said in a statement that the fire could trigger a "humanitarian and environmental disaster" in Tripoli, appealing for "international help" to extinguish the inferno. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ben Khalifa)

Attack on park in Gaza war kills 10, mostly children

By Karin Laub and Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Palestinian medics treat a child wounded in an Israeli strike on a compound housing a U.N. school in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, at the emergency room of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Israeli tank shells hit the compound, killing more than a dozen people and wounding dozens more who were seeking shelter from fierce clashes on the streets outside. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

U.N. school in Gaza caught in cross-fire; 15 killed

By Ibrahim Barzak and Peter Enav - Associated Press

An Israeli artillery crew near the Israel and Gaza border prepares to fire towards Gaza, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Israel pounded Hamas rocket launchers, uncovered more than a dozen cross-border tunnels and engaged in gunbattles with Palestinian militants Saturday, as fighting intensified on the second day of its open-ended ground operation in Gaza, as the Palestinian death toll continued to rise. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Hamas tunnels ‘intended for large attacks in Israeli communities’ destroyed

By Ibrahim Barzak and Ian Deitch - Associated Press