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No let up in Gaza air strikes despite Israeli claim to have moved to less intense phase of war
A Palestinian man sits near the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, January 9, 2024.
A Palestinian girl who survived an Israeli strike is carried by her father next to the bodies of their relatives who were killed in an Israeli strike in Rafah.
Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip January 10, 2024.
A member of Palestine Red Crescent ambulance team carries a child from an ambulance to Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on January 8, 2024.
The widow (C-R) is supported by a relative during the funeral of Hamza Wael Dahdouh, a journalist who was killed in a reported Israeli air strike in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on January 7, 2024.
Palestinians protest during a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on January 10, 2024, during Blinken's week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East.
A youth is brought into Shuhada al-Aqsa (Aqsa Martyrs) Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on January 8, 2024.
Smoke rises following Israeli strike as seen from Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, January 8, 2024.
Fellow journalists mourn over the body of Mustafa Thuria, a video stringer for AFP news agency, who was killed in a reported Israeli air strike during his funeral in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on January 7, 2024.
A Palestinian carries a container near the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, January 9, 2024.
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