'We're all just very much taken aback by the magnitude of the casualties on both sides,' says Anna Bjerde, the World Bank's managing director of operations
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An internal World Bank memo seen by Reuters cited a “devastating loss of life, destruction, and heavy toll on civilians being incurred on both sides,” but voiced support for the lender’s work in Gaza and the West Bank. The annual meetings in Marrakech from Monday to Sunday, October 15, are expected to focus heavily on increasing resources for the IMF and the World Bank, both potentially contentious moves. But the attention of many government officials and nonprofit representatives on the first day turned to the possibility of a wider conflict.
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