Palestinians killed as they fled Israel’s bombs

A Palestinian man cannot control his tears as he cycles past body after body of Palestinian children and women strewn on the ground after an Israeli attack on civilians fleeing the bombing in Gaza. The footage, taken on Al-Rashid coastal road, shows a road littered with dead bodies of innocent Palestinians.

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A video in Gaza, being shared on social media and verified by Reuters on Friday, showed the bodies of at least seven people lying apparently dead on a road running south of Gaza City, which is currently under siege by Israeli forces, Reuters reports.

Reuters located the video as being made on the Al-Rashid coast road between Gaza City and Wadi Gaza.

Reuters could not immediately verify the date it was filmed but verified that it had not been circulating on social media before Friday. Reuters could not verify the identity of the person who recorded the video, or the identity of the people shown.

Israel’s military did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the video.

The video

showed some debris and many personal possessions scattered around the people, who included at leastone child. Blood stains marked the road

It was taken by a man or boy cycling along the road and past the scene, speaking as he passed by and starting to cry. At one point another person cycling behind him was visible.

God, a child. God, women. God, the girl. Please God protect our people. Please look

the cyclist is heard saying in Arabic.

Israel said late on Thursday its forces had encircled Gaza City after earlier this week cutting off the northern Gaza Strip from the south of the enclave near Gaza Wadi.

It has said it wants to destroy Hamas, which carried out an attack on Israeli fortifications and towns on 7 October that Israel says killed 1,400 people, as well as seizing 240 hostages.

Health authorities in the enclave say Israel has killed 9,227 people including 3,826 children during nearly three weeks of intense air and artillery strikes.

People fleeing northern Gaza areas have previously accused Israel of targeting some who tried to flee to the south.

Israel, last month, ordered all civilians to leave the northern part of the Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, and head to the south of the enclave, which it has also continued to bomb.

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