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00:00 In a footage captured by Associated Press, mourners were seen sitting by the bodies wrapped
00:07 in body bags before prayer rituals were performed by dozens of men.
00:12 The bodies were taken to the morgue in Abu Yusuf al-Najjar Hospital.
00:17 The strike happened as the Israeli military signals that it plans an offensive on the
00:23 city where hundreds of thousands of people have taken refuge during the war.
00:29 Israel has said it has plans to evacuate civilians from Rafa during the anticipated offensive.
00:37 Almost 80 percent of the people in Gaza have fled their homes, and more than half of the
00:41 territory's population of 2.3 million have sought refuge in Rafa.
00:47 The war on Gaza has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials,
00:54 around two-thirds of them being children and women.
00:57 "We were sleeping, we were not asking anything, we heard the explosion, we were just walking,
01:04 we were not doing anything, we were just walking, we were not doing anything, we were just walking,
01:11 and this picture is an expression of what happened.
01:16 This is a crime, this is a crime.
01:19 There are people who are safe in their homes, there are no military areas or anything."
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01:38 Union for International Development (EIDD)