Mohammed Hamed, a young doctor, has spent the past six days at the Beit Hanoun hospital trying to cope with the casualties.

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Khaled Abdel Shafi, the director of the United Nations development program in Gaza, says the U.N. is still trying to assess the damage in Beit Hanoun.

NPR: Israeli Troops Leave Gaza Town in Ruins

Among the dead were two girls, ages 4 and 11, who were killed early Tuesday, as they rode in a donkey-driven cart in Beit Hanoun, sources said.

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The Kafarnehs' previous dispute, with Beit Hanoun's rival Masri clan, started after a minor collision between a car and a donkey cart and ended up claiming eight lives.

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Much of Beit Hanoun lies in ruins.

NPR: Israeli Troops Leave Gaza Town in Ruins

Ahmad Saba, a doctor and a member of the powerful Kafarneh clan in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, says he (and, he estimates, some 1, 200 of his kinsmen) has been unable to go to work in Gaza City for three months because of a feud between the Kafarnehs and the city's Dughmush clan.

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