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The Palestinian Health Ministry said at least 14 members of the family were killed. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Haitham Imad)</em></p>\r\n<h4><b>Rafah air strike</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The final days leading up to the anticipated truce have been exceptionally bloody, with talks overshadowed by the </span><a href=\"https://www-dailymaverick-co-za.webpkgcache.com/doc/-/s/www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-02-29-dozens-dead-in-gaza-after-violence-erupts-around-convoy-of-food-aid-trucks/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deaths of 118 people</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> near a food convoy where Israeli forces opened fire. Hamas called it a massacre; Israel says most of those killed were trampled in a stampede.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the latest reported attack on aid, Gaza authorities said at least eight people were killed on Sunday when a truck carrying food aid from a Kuwaiti charity was hit by an air strike. 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Residents and relatives of a Palestinian family search for missing people under the rubble of their home in the Rafah refugee camp following an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip on 3 March 2024. The Palestinian Health Ministry said at least 14 members of the family were killed. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Haitham Imad)