(17 Apr 2025)
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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE THE EDIT CONTAINS SHOTS OF DEAD BODIES++
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Khan Younis, Gaza – 17 April 2025
1. Various of Majida Abu Al-Rous showing photos of her grandchildren who were killed in Israeli airstrike
2. Abu Al-Rous pointing to photo of her grandchildren and saying in Arabic:"This is Ahmed the disabled child and this is his sister Nour"
3. Various of Abu Al-Rous mourning her dead relatives
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Majida Abu Al-Rous, who lost her daughter and grandchildren in the Israeli airstrike:
"What happened, they were sleeping, they were hit by a missile, the tent was burned and they were all burned, they were all burned and charred, would the disabled child carry a missile and threaten them or the one-year-old child? They are all children, they are all women, look who was killed, they are all children and women."
5. Various of people mourning their dead relatives
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yusuf Abu Al-Rous, relative:
"We didn’t notice until the fires spread to four tents, and we went out with the neighbors to put out the fire. We tried to put it out with water and sand. We saved what we could, but the fire brigade was late in arriving. We took out all the charred bodies, some of them disabled, Ahmed, a disabled child, and Umm Ramzi Abu Al-Rous, an elderly woman with a wheelchair, three women, and there were also children, about eight children. They claim that it is a safe area, but this is not a safe area."
7. Various of people mourning their dead relatives
8. Various of people praying for victims
9. Various of people gathering near destroyed tents
10. Various of burned food on the ground
11. Various of destruction, children gathering
12. Various of destroyed toilet
13. Various of destruction
14. Various of boy collecting flour from the ground
15. Various of people collecting parts and put together what appears to be an UAV (unmanned combat aerial vehicle) that according to witnesses was used to strike the area (AP could not verify the claims)
STORYLINE:
People in Gaza were mourning their dead, including children on Thursday, after Israeli strikes killed 23 people, including a family of 10.
The strike in the southern city of Khan Younis killed five children, four women and a man from the same family, all of whom suffered severe burns, according to Nasser Hospital, which received the bodies.
Strikes in northern Gaza killed 13 people, including nine children, according to the Indonesian Hospital.
Majida Abu Al-Rous, who lost her daughter and grandchildren in the Israeli airstrike, said they were sleeping in a tent which was hit by a missile.
"The tent was burned and they were all burned, they were all burned and charred."
Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas last month and renewed its bombardment, killing hundreds of people and seizing large parts of the territory to pressure the militants to accept changes to the agreement.
The Israeli military says it tries to avoid harming civilians and blames their deaths on Hamas because it operates in residential areas.
There was no immediate comment on the latest strikes.
The United Nations meanwhile raised alarm over the mounting impact of Israel’s six-week-old blockade preventing all food and other supplies from entering the territory.
The U.N. humanitarian office, known as OCHA, said that almost all of Gaza’s more than 2 million people now rely for food on the only 1 million prepared meals produced daily by charity kitchens supported by aid groups.
The only other way to get food in Gaza is from markets.
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