(3 Jul 2024)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 3 July 2024
1. Various of Asmahan Belal and her family sitting near tent, their belongings spread out on the ground
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Asmahan Belal, displaced from Gaza: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT, PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOTS 3,4++
"There is no shelter for an individual to live in. Death is better than the life we are living. We are humiliated and we suffer to get food, drinking water and firewood. We keep searching and searching, but getting nothing. You don’t find anything that helps you survive. We are trying to keep life going, but it doesn’t."
3. Various of hundreds of tents that displaced Palestinian use as shelters
4. Various of tents between dirt barriers
5. Child playing with sand
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Asmahan Belal, displaced from Gaza: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT, PARTLY OVERLAID++
"What we experienced in Gaza (City) was too much. It was the first time we saw this kind of war. We have been forced to flee from one place to another. We saw people being killed, and our children were dying before our eyes. We can’t do anything."
7. Various of Anwar Salman and his family sitting outside of their tent, woman cooking on fire
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anwar Salman, displaced from Gaza: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT, PARTLY OVERLAID++
"We, as a people, are finished. There is no life here. We are not able to continue. We can't live anymore. We want anyone from the officials to tell us where they want us to go. If they want to kill us, let them do it. Let them throw a nuclear bomb and end us. We are fed up. We are exhausted. We are dying a slow death every day."
9. Various of mother showing skin problems affecting her children
10. Displaced Palestinians walking with water containers
STORYLINE:
Palestinian families who fled eastern Khan Younis in the latest wave of exodus in the war-torn Gaza Strip earlier this week, have struggled to find shelters in the overcrowded shelters and open areas in the western parts of the city.
Many have been forced to flee their homes multiple times since Israel launched its military campaign in Gaza nine months ago.
The newly displaced people have stayed in the open under July’s burning sun, without food, water and shelter.
"Death is better than the life we are living. We are humiliated and we suffer to get food, drinking water and firewood," said Asmahan Belal, a woman from Gaza City who had sheltered in eastern Khan Younis until she was forced to flee once again earlier this week.
"You don’t find anything that helps you survive. We are trying to keep life going, but it doesn’t," she added, holding her tears.
"We have been forced to flee from one place to another. We saw people being killed, and our children were dying before our eyes. We can’t do anything," Belal said.
She was one of tens of thousands who were forced to flee their homes and shelters in the eastern parts of Khan Younis, following Monday’s evacuation orders by the Israeli military.
The displaced people headed westward to the city center and further to the overwhelmed Muwasi area that Israel’s military designated as a humanitarian zone.
"These are desert areas that have no means of life. There is no water, no food," Anwar Salman, a displaced Palestinian said..
"We, as a people, are finished. There is no life here. We are not able to continue. We can't live anymore. We want anyone from the officials to tell us where they want us to go. If they want to kill us, let them do it. Let them throw a nuclear bomb and end us," he added.
Production: Wafaa Shurafa
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