Israel presses Gaza offensive despite US call for 'pause'; Palestinian deaths mount

This image grab taken from an AFPTV video footage shows Palestinian rescuers carrying an injured man at the Osama bin Zaid school, which shelters displaced people in the Saftawi area, north of Gaza City after a strike on November 3, 2023. Onlookers outside Gaza's largest hospital Al-Shifa gather around a Red Crescent ambulance damaged in a deadly Israeli strike

"Upon their arrival to al-Shifa, directly targeted the convoy's second vehicle, committing a terrible massacre that claimed the lives of 15 and wounded more than 60," health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffed pressure from visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to enact a temporary humanitarian truce, the nearly month-old war in Gaza raged unabated.

Israel says it is targeting Hamas operatives, weapons stores, tunnel complexes, drone launching posts and command centres.Hamas-run health authorities claim more than 9,200 Gazans, mostly women and children, have been killed. World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was"utterly shocked" by the strike on the doorstep of the territory's largest hospital Al-Shifa.

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