(CNN) -- The International Committee of the Red Cross called on Israel to allow it immediate access to Gaza, saying a trip into Gaza City revealed weak children laying with their dead mothers and other "shocking" scenes. Israeli artillery fires a shell toward Gaza from the Israel-Gaza border on Wednesday. Red Cross workers and four ambulances from the Palestine Red Crescent Society managed to enter the Zaytun neighborhood of Gaza City on Wednesday, according to a written release. The crew found four children, too weak to stand, next to their dead mothers in a house containing 12 corpses, the statement says.
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Red Cross: Workers found weak kids with dead mothers during trip into Gaza City
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Team found wounded people, corpses, Red Cross says
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Red Cross official: Israeli military didn't help the wounded
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International Committee of the Red Cross demands access to Gaza
Palestine Red Crescent Society
It said the group was told more wounded people were in the neighborhood, and demanded that Israel grant it and the @placeholder immediate access and safe passage to search for them.