As Israeli bombardment on the beleaguered Gaza strip continued, Palestinians lamented that young people were “bombed to pieces”, according to AFP.

“We came here and found all these houses destroyed, and children, women and young people all bombed to pieces,” said Ahmed Abu Zarqa after a deadly strike in Khan Younis.

“This is no way to live. Enough, we’re tired, enough! “We don’t know what to do with our lives any more. We’d rather die than live this kind of life.”

AFP images showed residents digging through rubble in search of bodies, which were carried away on stretchers under blankets.

At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, rescuers rushed a screaming wounded child out of an ambulance.

 Palestinian father Wissam Wishah who lost three of his children, Said, Salma and Eline, in Israeli strikes in the vicinity of their home, hangs their toys and belongings on the rubble of their house at the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on May 1, 2025. — AFP
Palestinian father Wissam Wishah who lost three of his children, Said, Salma and Eline, in Israeli strikes in the vicinity of their home, hangs their toys and belongings on the rubble of their house at the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on May 1, 2025. — AFP

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