When the Israeli army told Palestinians in the Beach refugee camp in Gaza City to flee south because it was safer, 18-year-old Dima Al-Lamdani's family prayed they would escape relentless air strikes.
But days later, Lamdani was left to identify the bodies of her relatives at a makeshift morgue in the southern city of Khan Younis. She said she lost her parents, seven siblings and four members of her uncle's family in an Israeli air strike.
Lamdani, the side of her face grazed and bruised, said after searching for her family members in the morgue on Oct. 17 that only her brother and two young cousins had survived. Gaza health authorities said more than 5,000 people have been killed in Israel's two weeks of bombardment and more than 15,000 have been injured.
Hamas said more was needed. "Letting limited quantities of aid enter the Gaza Strip in the past two days doesn't answer the growing requirements of our people during the savage aggression and the ongoing blockade," it said in a statement.
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