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CAIRO: As Israel stepped up airstrikes on Rafah and planned to launch an all-out ground assault despite allies’ warnings this could cause mass casualties, Pales­tinian authorities on Thursday asked the United Nations to conduct a probe into mass graves at Gaza hospitals. Medics in the besieged Palestinian enclave reported five Israeli airstrikes on Rafah early on Thursday that hit at …

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