Nada Bashir

*Warning: distressing video* The terrified voice of five year old Hind Rajab, desperately pleading for help while surrounded by the bodies of her slain relatives, will be engrained in the memories of many. She had been travelling in a car with her uncle, his wife, and their four children - fleeing violence in northern Gaza - when they came under Israeli fire. But hours after her call to the Palestine Red Crescent, emergency responders lost all contact. For twelve days, nobody was able to reach Hind’s location in the now-destroyed neighbourhood of Tal Al-Hawa, trapped under an Israeli military siege. It was only on Saturday that emergency teams were finally able to reach her… and recover her body. A recording of a call made by Hind’s teenage cousin, Layan, paints a grim picture of the horror this family faced. Their car surrounded by Israeli tanks, the sound of heavy fire around them, and then silence. The family’s car, located almost two weeks later, is visibly riddled with bullet holes. Two Palestine Red Crescent paramedics who had been dispatched to rescue Hind - Yusuf Al-Zeino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun - were also killed. Charred wreckage is all that is left of their ambulance, found just meters away from Hind. The PRC says their paramedics were deliberately targeted by Israeli troops, despite prior coordination with the military. The IDF says it is still looking into the incident. Hind’s story has captured the attention of many across the globe, but there are many more stories just like her’s. She is one of more than 10,000 children killed in this brutal war so far. Hind’s mother, who had been desperately waiting at the hospital gates each and every day for her daughter’s return, shared with us this heartbreaking message: “Hind was martyred. My heart burns for her. How many more heartbroken mothers do they want? How many more children like Hind need to be martyred? They have annihilated Gaza and its people. What more do they want?”//With @ssirgany

CNN's Nada Bashir spoke to to residents who say they were forced to flee Jenin refugee camp as Israel's West Bank military operation intensifies.The Israel Defense Forces said to CNN Friday it was "not forcing the Palestinians to evacuate," but said it had "allowed residents of the camp to evacuate between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. today through an organized and secured point."Read more at link in bio.

Posted @wit On Friday, we visited Jenin in the occupied West Bank, which continues to be the focus of an intense military operation by Israeli forces. Over recent days, the Jenin refugee camp - a sprawling urban area home to thousands of Palestinian civilians - has seen aerial strikes, ground attacks, and nightly raids by Israeli forces. More than a dozen Palestinians have been killed, and dozens more have been injured or detained. Around the camp, roads have been destroyed and bulldozed by the military. We saw countless families - including young children and the elderly - being forced to flee on foot. Many of them told us that Israeli forces had come to their homes and told them they had 20 minutes to get out, warning that this area had now become a closed military zone. //With @kareemjerusalem, Sanjiv Talreja and Nadeen Ebrahim

None of our reporting on the war in Gaza would be possible without the brave and tireless work of Palestinian journalists on the ground. The Committee to Protect Journalists has described this as the “deadliest period for journalists” since the CPJ began gathering data in 1992. While the Israeli military claims it does not target journalists, the UN Human Rights Council says it has noted “disturbing reports” of attacks against media workers despite being clearly identifiable in jackets, helmets and vehicles marked “press” - seemingly indicating a “deliberate strategy” by Israeli forces to obstruct and silence critical reporting. All the while, through ongoing airstrikes and a deepening humanitarian catastrophe, Palestinian journalists continue to do their vital work. Thank you to @jaafarak for moderating such an interesting discussion on the struggle for objectivity and compassion in reporting on the Middle East. #GMF24

“The odour of blood in the hospital’s emergency room was unbearable... bodies were being brought in plastic bags.” This is the picture painted by @doctorswithoutborders following Israel’s deadly strike on Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza. Over the last few weeks, thousands of displaced civilians have returned to central Gaza, fearing an intensification of Israel’s bombardment of the south - where more than a million people had sought refuge. But over the last 48 hours, the Israeli military has carried out a series of strikes on both Deir Al-Balah and the Nuseirat refugee camp. The Israeli military claims it targeted Hamas militants and infrastructure in both instances. But these are areas were thousands of civilians were known to be sheltering. In Nuseirat, Israel’s strikes directly targeted a UN-run school, where approximately 7,000 displaced people were sheltering. Thousands more are sheltering on the school’s grounds. The videos we have received from our colleagues on the ground are, as always, deeply distressing. So many children were among those killed. Dozens more have sustained serious injuries. For those who survive the daily military onslaught, the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe also poses a constant threat. Mountains of waste piled high, toxic fumes, raw sewage contaminating Gaza’s heavily restricted water supply, and a desperate shortage in both food and medicine. More than a million people in Gaza are facing acute levels of hunger, with independent experts now warning that famine may already be underway in the north. // With @tareq_48t and @sawalhi.m1 on the ground in Gaza, @abeersalmancnn, @kareemjerusalem, @katyakrebs and Tom Nicholson

*Warning: distressing content*Since our report aired on Monday, the number of bodies recovered from a newly-found mass grave in Khan Younis has climbed to 310. But the search for missing bodies is still ongoing and that number is likely to keep rising. The discovery of this mass grave comes just a week after Israeli forces withdrew from the area. Gaza’s Civil Defence says hundreds of victims who had been buried on the grounds of the Nasser Hospital were dug up by the Israeli military, and later discarded in a nearby mass grave.Families tell us they have been unable to locate the bodies of their loved ones, with body bags and forms of identification removed or discarded. Some of the decomposing bodies so far recovered have been found with their hands bound together - an indication, Palestinian officials say, of possible field executions. A spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Commissioner said today that such reports indicate a serious violation of international human rights law and must be investigated.CNN has reached out to the Israeli military multiple times for comment, without response. In previous instances, the IDF has admitted to exhuming graves and carrying out DNA tests to identify potential hostages. Under international humanitarian law, graves must be respected, properly maintained and marked so they may always be found. But even in death, Palestinians in Gaza have been robbed of their basic rights and dignity. //With @tareq_48t on the ground in Gaza, muhammaddarwish, @abeersalmancnn and Michele Alessi.

10-year old Shahed was killed in an Israeli air strike yesterday in Gaza. She was playing foosball with her friends. Her pink pants unmistakeable in the carnage.She is one of 8 children who were killed in that same airstrike, according to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. One of nearly 14,000 children who have been killed in Gaza in 6 months of war.The Israeli military said the incident was under review.

CNN gains rare access into the empty, cavernous halls of the Grand Palais in Paris, as the first phase of unprecedented restoration work is finalized just in time for this French landmark to take on a new role: hosting Olympic sports.

On Sunday the IDF said that it had “concluded its mission” in Khan Younis. After forces left the city in southern Gaza to prepare for future operations, Gazan residents return to what’s left of their homes amid the destruction.

“Stay in the hospital. Anyone who leaves will be shot.” This is the warning being issued over loudspeaker by the Israeli military to civilians inside Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital. For more than four days now, Israeli soldiers have encircled the medical complex, where some 3,000 people are believed to have been sheltering - including hundreds of patients and medical staff. Earlier in the week, footage from central Gaza showed families running in terror after a deafening missile strike near the hospital. Eyewitnesses told CNN that the Israeli military had razed and bombed homes in the surrounding area, leaving countless civilians wounded, or killed. The hospital itself remains under siege. Palestinians in the area tell us that the sound of shelling and live fire is almost constant. Getting information from within the hospital is increasingly difficult, but several Palestinians who were able to flee have shared harrowing accounts of what they experienced - including interrogations, killings and torture. Our colleagues on the ground came across two young boys who fled Al-Shifa on Monday. Making their towards southern Gaza - in their underwear and barefoot - they said they were just thankful to have escaped with their lives. They say they were met with Israeli tanks, forced into an open square and ordered to undress, before they were interrogated. Many other men around them, they say, were killed. The Israeli military has described its raid on Al-Shifa as “precise” - targeting, they say, Hamas militants around the hospital complex. Hamas’ military wing has also acknowledged that its fighters have been engaged in what they have described as “fierce clashes” in the area surrounding the hospital. But there are hundreds of civilians caught in the midst of yet another deadly siege on Gaza’s largest healthcare facility. The Israeli military has maintained that no harm has been inflicted on civilians or medical staff. But testimonies from Palestinia