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Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital forced to bury dead patients in ‘mass grave’

Bodies of people killed in a reported Israeli strike lie on the ground near Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital on November 10, 2023 [File: Khoder al-Zaanoun/AFP]

Staff at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital have buried dozens of patients in a mass grave, hospital officials say, as thousands of Palestinians remain trapped in the facility surrounded by Israeli forces.

“There are bodies littered in the hospital complex, and there is no longer electricity at the morgues,” al-Shifa Hospital Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya told the AFP news agency on Tuesday. “We were forced to bury them in a mass grave.”

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