STORY: Death toll rises, crucial facilities destroyed in Gaza after ceasefire expires
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 4, 2023
DATELINE: Dec. 5, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:45
LOCATION: GAZA
CATEGORY: SOCIETY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of bakery destroyed
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): ESSAM YOUSSEF, Worker at Al-Baraka Bakery in Gaza
3. various of hospital in Gaza

STORYLINE:

Al-Baraka Bakery, a bakery that kept working in the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas conflict, was destroyed by Israeli army on Sunday.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic): ESSAM YOUSSEF, Worker at Al-Baraka Bakery in Gaza 
"Bread was the only hope for the people. There is nothing left for us here because Israel has destroyed our lives.
The flour that used to come from United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) or mills nearby could no longer reach us.
The attack by the Israeli army destroyed factories, cut off fuel and gas, making every effort to stop the operation of the bakery. However, the bakery still continued to work as much as possible to help people until it was destroyed."

The Palestinian death toll has risen to 15,899 as a result of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the Hamas-run health ministry said Monday.

Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesman of the ministry, accused Israel of escalating its targeting of hospitals and health facilities, noting that it destroyed 56 health institutions, arrested 35 medical personnel, and rendered the health system in the Gaza Strip completely incapacitated.

Al-Qedra called on the United Nations and the World Health Organization to protect hospitals and health and humanitarian teams and to provide safe passage for the entry of medical supplies and fuel and the exit of the wounded.

However, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that Hamas had deliberately embedded itself among civilians so that Gazans would bear the consequences of "Hamas atrocities."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Gaza.
(XHTV)