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‘True massacre’: Gaza child casualties cross 4,000 as Israeli raids expand

Palestinian photographer Mohammed Alaloul holds the shrouded body of one of his children killed in an Israeli strike on the al-Maghazi refugee camp in Deir Balah in central Gaza Strip [Mahmud Hams/AFP]

At least 4,008 children have been killed in the ongoing war in Gaza as the death toll after nearly a month of Israeli bombings hits 9,770, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

On Sunday afternoon, an Israeli air strike hit several houses near a school at the Bureji refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least 13 people, according to officials at Al-Aqsa Hospital.

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