Eyad Al-Zaeem told Reuters he lost his aunt, her children and her grandchildren in the air strike in Khan Younis, and that all had evacuated from north Gaza on Israeli army orders only to die where the army told them they could be safe.

“All of them were martyred. They had nothing to do with the (Hamas) resistance,” said Zaeem, standing outside the morgue at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis where 26 bodies were laid out before they were to be carried by loved ones to burials.

 People react next to bodies of Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli strike, at the morgue of Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Nov 7, 2023. — Reuters
People react next to bodies of Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli strike, at the morgue of Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Nov 7, 2023. — Reuters

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