A child and two women were trampled to death in a stampede at a bakery in the central Gazan city of Deir el-Balah on Friday, the hospital that received the bodies said.
Two women and "a young girl, died in front of a bakery in Deir al-Balah as a result of a stampede while trying to buy bread", Deir el-Balah's Al-Aqsa hospital said in a statement.
"The crowding and pushing were intense in front of the bakery. Suddenly, there was loud screaming, and they fell to the ground, suffocated by the stampede, including a young girl", one eyewitness said.
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