(18 Apr 2024)
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++CLIENT NOTE++ EDIT CONTAINS PICTURES OF DEAD BODIES++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rafah, Gaza Strip – 18 April 2024
1. Various of mourners standing around the covered dead bodies of eight people killed in an Israeli airstrike, covered bodies
2. Various of mourners
3. Mid of covered bodies
4. Various of people performing funeral prayers
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hani al-Ferari, displaced resident from Gaza City, neighbor of killed Palestinians:
“We fled to Rafah, as they said it was safe. These people were sleeping, when, suddenly, a missile or bomb fell on them. It took them out in pieces.”
6. Tilt-up of large crater caused by strike
7. Wide of uprooted tree
8. Pan left of crater
9. Various of people gathering around the crater
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel-Jabbar el-Arjaa, Rafah resident:
“What happened, these are people who lived here in a room for three months. They were displaced from the north, because they were told to move to the south because the south is safe, and they passed through Al-Halalaba as well, and they were present here. Suddenly, I don’t know, a barrel or a missile fell on them, shaking the area.”
11. Wide of crater
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel-Jabbar al-Arjaa, Rafah resident:
“They are all children and women. They were all martyred. We took them out in pieces. What is happening is crime and injustice. The pinnacle of injustice. Such injustice has never happened before. How long will this injustice continue? The whole world sees these massacres that are happening to the Palestinian people and does not care, how long will this injustice continue? The world that claims democracy and claims human and animal rights. The Palestinian people do not have rights in this world?”
13. Wide of area
STORYLINE:
Mourners gathered on Thursday around the bodies of eight people who were killed in an overnight airstrike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
All of the dead belonged to the same family and included four children and three women.
The bodies were later taken to Al Najjar hospital.
Neighbors of the family said they were displaced residents from northern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli strike hit a room where they were living in a farm area east of Rafah.
Israel launched a large-scale offensive in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the Oct. 7 attack carried out by Hamas in southern Israel, during which around 1,200 people were killed and over 200 were taken hostage.
The more than six-month-long war in Gaza has so far killed 33,843 Palestinians and wounded 76,575 others, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
AP video by Mohammad Jahjouh
Production by Omar Akour
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