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00:00It just is that there are, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 90 dead in
00:04this incident, which happened earlier today.
00:08And it repeats a pattern, you know, this is now over three weeks of an Israeli operation
00:13in the north of the Gaza Strip, basically in Jabalia, but Bethlehem is not far away.
00:18And what the Israeli government says, you know, it had been in the north of the Gaza
00:23Strip, it had withdrawn, and its policy is that it will go back when they say there is
00:28sufficient return of Hamas operatives.
00:32So that's been the justification, the reason for going in again three weeks ago.
00:37And we've seen a high death toll.
00:39You know that the Gaza Health Ministry doesn't distinguish between combatants and non-combatants.
00:44Nevertheless, even including combatants, the death tolls are high.
00:49And there must be some combatants, because we do see a consistent rate of Israeli soldiers
00:54dying there during this three-week operation as well.
00:58What you are seeing is Israeli soldiers killed, some Hamas operatives, unknown numbers killed,
01:05and women and children killed, because it's fighting, but it's very hard.
01:09It was hard for them to leave.
01:11Some of them had not left from the first Israeli incursion.
01:15They are now, they have stayed, they are now leaving.
01:18There are some people who returned.
01:19So they were displaced, returned, and they're now leaving.
01:22But nevertheless, there are civilians.
01:24And the civilians, as always in war, but particularly in this war, are the ones who pay the price.