Khan Younis: Gaza’s Civil Defence agency has said that health workers have uncovered around 200 bodies over past three days of people killed and buried by Israeli forces at hospital in Khan Younis. Israeli military did not offer an immediate comment.

“Our civil defence crews are still recovering bodies from inside Nasser Medical Complex, and since Saturday bodies of nearly 200 martyrs have been retrieved,” Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defence, told AFP. Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron has held phone calls with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to discuss ways of avoiding an escalation in Middle East crisis, Reuters reported.

French presidency said Macron, in his call to Egyptian Ahmed Fahmy discussed Middle East crisis with and that both Macron and Sisi had agreed on need to avoid further regional escalation.

Published in The Daily National Courier, April, 23 2024

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