(20 Mar 2025)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 20 March 2025
1. Various of people gathering near destruction, inspecting the rubble looking for survivors
2. Man carrying surviving newborn baby out of rubble and running
3. Various of paramedics inspecting newborn baby inside ambulance
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hazem Attar, from Civil defense:
"There is a baby girl. When we asked people they said she is a month old and she has been under the rubble. Since dawn she has been screaming and falling silent from time to time until we were able to get her out a short while ago, and thank God she is safe"
5. Various of people digging through rubble, including next to body of the baby’s father
6. Various of baby girl in ambulance
STORYLINE:
Rescuers pulled a month old baby girl from rubble near the city of Khan Younis in Gaza on Thursday after Israeli strikes killed at least 58 Palestinians across the strip overnight.
"Since dawn she has been screaming and falling silent from time to time until we were able to get her out a short while ago, and thank God she is safe," said Hazem Attar of Gaza’s civil defense force.
The strike that destroyed her home hit Abasan al-Kabira, a village just outside of Khan Younis near the border with Israel and killed at least 16 people, mostly women and children, according to the nearby European Hospital, which received the dead.
It was inside an area the Israeli military ordered evacuated earlier this week, encompassing most of eastern Gaza.
Those killed included a father and his seven children, as well as the parents and brother of the month-old baby, who survived along with her grandparents.
“Another tough night,” said Hani Awad, who was helping rescuers search for more survivors in the rubble. “The house collapsed over the people’s heads.”
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the latest strikes.
The military says it only targets militants and blames civilian deaths on Hamas because it is deeply embedded in residential areas.
Hours later, the Israeli military restored a blockade on northern Gaza, including Gaza City, that it had maintained for most of the war.
It warned residents against using the main highway to enter or leave the north and said only passage to the south would be allowed on the coastal road.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians returned to what remains of their homes in the north after a ceasefire took hold in January.
AP video by Mariam Dagga
Produced by Wafaa Shurafa
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