(4 Apr 2025)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 4 April 2025
1. Various of men recovering bodies from rubble after Israeli airstrike
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ismail al-Aqqad, brother and relative of Israeli airstrike victims: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"Remains, 20 people collecting remains, pieces. We don’t know how to collect them and how to bury them. We don’t know whose remains these are. They were burned and dismembered. Has the occupying state, Israel, become the rightful owner? And we are not the rightful owners? We are terrorists, and Israel who kills children and women, isn’t a terrorist? The biggest terrorists are Israel and America, and the Arab countries support them, and the Islamic countries support them. Foreigners stand with us, and the Arabs are against us."
3. Various of men looking through rubble
STORYLINE:
Israeli strikes killed more than a dozen people in the Gaza Strip early Friday, as Israel sent more ground troops into the Palestinian territory to ramp up its offensive against Hamas.
At least 17 people, some from the same family, were killed after an airstrike hit the southern city of Khan Younis, according to hospital staff.
Hours later, people were still searching through the rubble looking for survivors.
The attack came a day after Israeli strikes killed at least 100 Palestinians.
Hundreds more have died in the past two weeks, as Israel has intensified operations, intended to pressure Hamas to release remaining hostages it took during its attack on Israel in October 2023.
On Friday, Israel said it had begun ground activity in northern Gaza, in order to expand its security zone.
Israel’s military had issued sweeping evacuation orders for parts of northern Gaza before expected ground operations.
The U.N. humanitarian office said around 280,000 Palestinians have been displaced since Israel ended the ceasefire with Hamas last month.
In recent days, Israel has vowed to seize large parts of the Palestinian territory and establish a new security corridor across it.
To pressure Hamas, Israel has imposed a monthlong blockade on food, fuel and humanitarian aid that has left civilians facing acute shortages as supplies dwindle.
Israel said earlier this week that enough food had entered Gaza during a six-week truce to sustain the territory’s roughly 2 million Palestinians for a long time.
Hamas says it will only release the remaining 59 hostages — 24 of whom are believed to be alive — in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli pullout from Gaza.
The group has rejected demands that it lay down its arms or leave the territory.
The predawn strike on Friday hit a three-story building.
In addition to the dead, the attack wounded at least 16 people from the same family.
Associated Press reporters saw bodies being carried out in blankets, while others searched for people trapped under the rubble and collected charred remains.
AP video shot by Mariam Dagga
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