{"id":965520,"date":"2024-07-13T06:42:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T06:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965520"},"modified":"2024-07-13T06:42:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T06:42:11","slug":"rescuers-find-dozens-of-bodies-after-israelis-scale-back-gaza-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/rescuers-find-dozens-of-bodies-after-israelis-scale-back-gaza-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers find dozens of bodies after Israelis scale back Gaza City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli forces pulled back from parts of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/militants-fire-rockets-into-israel-tanks-advance-in-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Gaza City<\/a> overnight, after a fierce, week-long offensive that met with Hamas resistance, leaving dozens of dead and wrecked homes and roads in the Palestinian enclave&#8217;s biggest urban area, rescuers said.<\/p>\n<p>The offensive, 10 months into Israel&#8217;s campaign to eliminate Hamas militants, took place as US-backed mediators sought to finalise a peace deal that would free remaining hostages taken by the militants in their cross-border rampage on October 7.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">The Gaza Civil Emergency Service said teams had collected around 60 bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces over the past week from the area of Tel Al-Hawa and the edges of the Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-2\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">While tanks withdrew from some areas, Israeli snipers and tanks continued to control some high ground, residents and rescue teams said, warning residents against trying to return.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-4\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">&#8220;There are bodies scattered in the streets, dismembered bodies, there are bodies of entire families, there are also bodies inside a home of an entire family that was completely burned,&#8221; Gaza Strip Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said on Friday in comments carried by media in Hamas-run Gaza.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-4\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\"><strong>UN chief warns of catastrophe \u2018beyond imagination\u2019 amid Israel and Hezbollah conflict:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GVg4wnAX5Sg?si=1F55dB2a38ct9Buo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-4\"><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-5\">Israel&#8217;s military said it had found drones and other weaponry in what is called a Hamas combat complex inside the former UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City and had evacuated civilians from the area before attacking.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-6\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-6\">&#8220;The troops engaged in close-quarters combat with terrorist cells that had fortified themselves inside the UNRWA compound,&#8221; it said, adding that it had also found an important Hamas tunnel nearby and weapons production under a university building.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-6\">\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-7\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-7\">The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad said they had attacked Israeli forces with anti-tank rockets and mortar fire, killing and wounding many.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-7\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-7\">There has been no Israeli army comment on those claims.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-8\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-8\">Home to more than a quarter of Gaza&#8217;s residents before the war, Gaza City was largely razed to the ground in late 2023, but hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had returned to homes in the ruins before Israel once again ordered them out.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body__element__2p5pI\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-9\">Dozens of residents returned again on Friday to check the damage after civil emergency teams put out fires in the early hours.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-9\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-9\"><em>Reuters<\/em> footage showed wrecked roads and buildings, including the former UNWRA headquarters. Bodies wrapped in white shrouds and bearing the names of the dead women and men lay on the floor at Al-Ahli Hospital.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli forces pulled back from parts of Gaza City overnight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":965521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1277],"tags":[1183,1184,261],"class_list":["post-965520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-2","tag-civil-emergency-service","tag-gaza-city","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}