Two rows of men sat in near silence, ignoring the plates of dates on offer inside the Mosque Harlem Center in Bridgeview, Illinois, as the first snow of the year fluttered outside the window. Others trickled in, by twos and threes to embrace Mohammed Aburealh, who was mourning more than 30 extended family members killed days earlier by Israeli bombs dropped during fighting between Israel and .
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Mohammed Abu Realh, 57, said his family members were killed in a strike about half a mile near Shifa Hospital at a beach camp in Gaza City. He said more may have been killed, and many are stuck under rubble.