Residents of Khan Younis said they had returned to scenes of widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip’s main southern city.
Amal al-Astal, 48, described demolished homes and bodies decomposing in the open.
“We found our house destroyed and our neighbours’ (houses) destroyed as well. One of our neighbours’ corpses was decomposed there,” Astal said.
“As soon as we entered, there were tragedies and we could not recognise the landmarks of the neighbourhood.”
Palestinians who returned to parts of Deir el-Balah earlier this week said they witnessed similar devastation.
The war in Gaza erupted following Hamas’s Oct 7 attack which resulted in the deaths of 1,199 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 40,602 people in Gaza, according to the territory’s health ministry. The UN rights office says most of the dead are women and children.
Source: CNA
