The director of Al-Shifa hospital was on duty Saturday marshalling the facility’s response to Israel’s assault on Gaza City when two victims killed in a strike were delivered to the ward: his brother and his sister-in-law.

“I was shocked and devastated to see the bodies of my brother and his wife,” said Mohammed Abu Salmiya, who was working in the emergency department of the territory’s main hospital at the time.

“Anything is possible now, as you receive your dearest ones as martyrs or wounded,” he told AFP. “The occupation’s crimes continue, and the number of martyrs keeps rising.”

The Gaza civil defence agency, a rescue force operating under Hamas authority, said at least 87 people were killed by Israeli strikes on Saturday, 70 of them in Gaza City.

The agency said 11 were killed whe

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