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Mai Yaghi

Entire Families 'Wiped Out' As War Rages In Gaza

A girl carrying a bird cage flees following an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip (Credit: AFP)

Sahar Awwad is seated between her two nephews. Together, they are among the few survivors of an extended Gaza family of which at least 80 members have been killed in nearly seven weeks of Israeli bombardment.

The entire family had fled first to a hospital in Khan Yunis, then to a school, which was initially transformed into a camp for the displaced then a clinic, in Rafah near the border with Egypt, the southernmost point of the besieged enclave.

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