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Palestinian father wails over the bodies of his children, killed by Israeli tank shells. Israeli bombardment hits outside a U.N. school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge on Tuesday. Palestinian medics said at least 34 people died. A lot of the wounded were missing limbs and were in pieces many of them were children. It was the second fatal strike, and the deadliest assault since Israel sent ground forces into Gaza last weekend. More than 600 Palestinians have been killed. Ignoring international calls for a cease-fire, Israeli soldiers edged closer to Gaza's major population centres. A total of 58 Palestinians were killed in Tuesday fighting. Many women and children wheeled in, many children were among the dead. Parents slapping their faces in grief, screaming, some of them collapsed to the floor. They knew their children were dead in the morgue; most of them killed appeared to be children. Nearly 600 Palestinians have been killed, including more than 100 civilians, according to United Nations and the latest Palestinian figures.
“The rising civilian death toll has drawn international condemnations and raised concerns of a looming humanitarian disaster. This is not a crisis, it's a disaster."
Israel's operation has angered many across the world and has drawn criticism from countries such as Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and also Turkey, Egypt and Jordan, which have ties with Israel and have been intimately involved in Middle East peacemaking.
I am appealing to world leaders to get their acts together and stop this, and call for a ceasefire as quickly as possible.
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