After deadly attack in Kashmir, what's next for India and Pakistan?
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This episode was produced by Khaled Soltan and Chloe K. Li, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Kisaa Zehra, Kingwell Ma, Mariana Navarrete, and our guest host, Manuel Rapalo. It was edited by Kylene Kiang.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is the Take's executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, says, 'Israeli attacks are still ongoing, unabated, in the eastern part of Gaza City. The scale of attacks illustrates how Israel's current strategy is shaping the geography and demography of Gaza.' 'We can see how Israel is using heavy artillery, fighter jets and drones, in order to destroy what's left of residential homes there. The scale of destruction is extremely overwhelming,' he said. 'This current military tactic ensures that Israel will enable its forces to operate on the ground and will also ensure residential areas turn into zones of rubble. People there say Israeli attacks are happening day and night.' Many who have already been displaced multiple times during the war by Israeli bombardment are on the move again from Gaza City. Others are staying put. The city was the main target of air attacks on Sunday that killed nearly 60 people, and Israel is also targeting the few remaining healthcare centres there. 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The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says children in Gaza should be preparing for the new school year, but instead are searching for water, queuing for food, and living in classrooms turned into overcrowded shelters. UNRWA warned that children in the enclave have already lost three years of schooling, risking becoming a 'lost generation', and renewed its call for an immediate ceasefire. Amnesty International has condemned Israel 'systematically destroying the health, wellbeing and social fabric of Palestinian life'. In a report quoting displaced Palestinians and medical staff who have treated malnourished children, Amnesty said: 'Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip.' In the meantime, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says its staff in Gaza are witnessing a surge in mass casualties linked to Israel's ongoing siege and its oversight of limited distribution of aid by the controversial, US- and Israel-backed aid organisation GHF. 'The indiscriminate killings, and the counts of mass casualties we still [see] on a daily basis right now, hasn't stopped, but only increased in its scale,' said Nour Alsaqqa of MSF. She said one MSF facility in Rafah, located near an aid distribution centre, has been overwhelmed with wounded Palestinians, including children. 'We are receiving baby injuries and killings from the distribution sites. People who are coming with gunshots, with different injuries, related to the distribution sites and they go only seeking food,' she said. 'They go out of desperation and they risk their lives to access aid, which is still inaccessible due to Israel's siege.' 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