A child salvages items from the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli strikes in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on November 5. — AFP
A child salvages items from the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli strikes in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on November 5. — AFP

Palestinians mourn relatives killed in an Israeli strike on displacement tents in the vicinity earlier, at the Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on November 5. — AFP
Palestinians mourn relatives killed in an Israeli strike on displacement tents in the vicinity earlier, at the Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on November 5. — AFP

Palestinians mourn relatives killed in an Israeli strike on displacement tents in the vicinity earlier, at the Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on November 5. — AFP
Palestinians mourn relatives killed in an Israeli strike on displacement tents in the vicinity earlier, at the Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on November 5. — AFP

Palestinian boys scrape flour off the ground after a bag fell from an aid truck driving down the Salaheddin road in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on November 5. — AFP
Palestinian boys scrape flour off the ground after a bag fell from an aid truck driving down the Salaheddin road in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on November 5. — AFP

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