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The stories of Gaza’s oldest victim and its youngest
Guardian tracks down families of 101-year-old great-great-grandfather and two-hour-old baby girl
Gaza’s health ministry has identified 34,344 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in the territory, publishing a list of names, ages, sex and ID numbers that cover more than 80% of Palestinians killed in the war so far.
The Guardian used this list to seek out the families of the oldest victim, a 101-year-old , and one of the very youngest, a newborn whose brief life lasted only two hours. Their stories are below.
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