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GEOFF BENNETT: In Northern
Gaza, it was another
day of mass death,

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with Israeli airstrikes
killing at least 88 people,
including many children,

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as the Israel Defense
Forces continue ground
operations there.

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Hospitals were flooded
with injured and doctors
have few, if any,

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supplies to treat the wounded.
Hundreds of thousands remain
trapped and no substantial

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food or aid has been
allowed into the area for
weeks. That's as Israel's
Parliament passed two

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measures that effectively
outlaw the U.N. agency charged
with aiding Palestinians.

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Here's Nick Schifrin.

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And a caution: Images in
this story are disturbing.

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NICK SCHIFRIN: Underneath
buildings that have
become carcasses, lives
end in canvas shrouds

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or wrapped in carpets. Today
in Beit Lahia, the bodies lay
side by side across the street

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from what used to be a single
apartment block destroyed
by an Israeli airstrike.

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Residents said there was
no warning for the men
buried under the rubble,

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for the girl burned trying to
escape. There are no emergency
workers left, so survivors

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are forced to carry the
dead, and boys are forced to
comprehend the incomprehensible.

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Many of the injured
arrived in nearby Al-Awda
Hospital. Its director,

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Mohammed Salha,
spoke to us by phone.

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DR. MOHAMMED SALHA, Director,
Al-Awda Hospital: We
are receiving 40 injured

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here. We're doing three
lifesaving operation.
We have shortage of
medication, medical supplies,

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fuel, and shortage of
food. Only we are eating
one meal per day. All

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our department is full of
patient, all the beds. We are
putting beds in the corridors.

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NICK SCHIFRIN: For weeks,
Al-Awda has received an
overwhelming number of dead

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and hosted an overwhelming
number of funerals. And
now shortages that began

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three months ago have
become acute after the
hospital became a target.

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DR. MOHAMMED SALHA: So
they destroyed two floors;
48 of beds are destroyed
from our capacity. They

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destroyed our store of
medical supplies. Nobody
can help, because there's
no ambulances. The

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situation became worse
and worse and worse. And
we can't deal with these
huge number of injuries.

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NICK SCHIFRIN: Al-Awda is in
the middle of a four-week-old
Israeli operation in Northern

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Gaza focused on Jabalia.
The Israeli military says
Hamas has regrouped here,

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storing weapons and explosives
in local schools and in
another local hospital.

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Kamal Adwan, North Gaza
still has terrorist
infrastructure and Hamas

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leaders that must be
targeted, says Israel's
top general, Herzi Halevi.

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LT. GEN. HERZI HALEVI, Chief of
Staff, Israeli Defense Forces
(through translator): Jabalia

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is falling. This is another
psychological collapse. And if
we take out the Northern Gaza

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brigade commander, it's another
collapse. This pressure brings
us closer to more achievements.

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NICK SCHIFRIN: To do that,
Israel has tried to evacuate

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400,000 residents who have
nowhere to stay or go.

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DR. MOHAMMED SALHA: The
situation has became
worse and worse and
worse. No place is safe

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in the north. So we are
really live in a disaster in
the north. You can't imagine

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how was the situation. People
is in the streets. There's
no shelters, no markets,

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nothing. The people is like to
die and not to live this life.

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NICK SCHIFRIN: Nearly all
of Gaza's health sector
is run by UNRWA, the U.N.
Relief and Works Agency,

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that in more peaceful
times served nearly six
million Palestinians
in Gaza and across the

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region with schools and
especially today emergency,
and humanitarian assistance.

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For years, Israel has
criticized the agency's
reference to refugees.
But since October the 7th,

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Israel says multiple UNRWA
schools turned shelters became
Hamas command-and-control

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centers. Underneath UNRWA
Gaza's headquarters,

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Israel says it found a Hamas
tunnel. And earlier this year,
Israel released a dossier

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that said four UNRWA
staffers were involved in
kidnapping Israelis, six
UNRWA staffers in total

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infiltrated into Israel,
and UNRWA acts under
the authorization and
supervision of Hamas.

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And so last night, Israel's
Parliament banned UNRWA from
Israel. The bills passed

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overwhelmingly, with the support
of centrist politicians like
Yesh Atid member Ron Katz.

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RON KATZ, Israeli Knesset Member
(through translator): The UNRWA
organization that has been

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proven beyond any doubt to
be part of Hamas took an
active part during October
7 in the kidnapping,

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the murder, in all the
actions that we know that
the Hamas organization did
in the state of Israel.

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NICK SCHIFRIN: This summer, the
U.N. fired nine UNRWA employees
for participating in October

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the 7th, but absolved others,
and promised to improve vetting
of its 13,000 Gaza employees.

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ANTONIO GUTERRES, United Nations
Secretary-General: We have an

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inspection that is working in
order to detect any areas of
infiltration that might exist.

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NICK SCHIFRIN: Israel promises
to replace UNRWA either with
other U.N. agencies or private

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contractors. But the U.S.
and U.N. say UNRWA is the
only organization that
can keep Gazans alive.

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LINDA THOMAS-GREENFIELD,
U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations: There is no alternative

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to UNRWA when it comes to
delivering food and other
lifesaving aid in Gaza.

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NICK SCHIFRIN: The legislation
doesn't go into effect for
three months. In the meantime,

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in North Gaza, the
bodies continue to arrive
on the back of carts.

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For the "PBS News Hour,"
I'm Nick Schifrin.