Israel has carried out strikes throughout the Gaza Strip as fighting raged between the army and Palestinian fighters, AFP reports.

Witnesses and AFP teams reported strikes or shelling in Rafah, the central city of Deir al-Balah, and Gaza City and Jabalia refugee camp in the north.

In Gaza City, an AFP photographer saw a grieving woman embracing one of several bodies, some of children, which were shrouded in blood-stained white cloth and laid on the ground outside a clinic ahead of funerals.

They were killed in a strike on a school turned shelter in nearby Jabalia, relative Saleh al-Aswad told AFP.

Umm Mohammad Al-Ashqa, displaced from Gaza City to Deir al-Balah by the war, told AFP she hoped “the court’s (ICJ’s) decision will put pressure on Israel” to end the fighting, “because there is nothing left here”.

 A person sits near the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike, in Gaza City on May 25, 2024. — Reuters
A person sits near the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike, in Gaza City on May 25, 2024. — Reuters

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