(4 Jun 2024)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 3 June 2024
1. Various of people walking/cycling amid the rubble of destroyed buildings left behind by the Israeli military operation
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ayad Abu Khries, who was displaced to Rafah and has now returned to his hometown of Khan Younis: ++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOTS 3-4++
"As you can see, the situation is disastrous, in every sense of the word. It’s a catastrophe. This is my house, but I can’t see where its foundations or borders are. I can’t find where it used to begin and end. None of my neighbours or relatives have their homes (standing) here. This is the situation for everyone. The situation is very bad and our means of living are completely non-existent. What we need does not exist. Not at all."
3. Various of children outside tent they are using as shelter near their destroyed house
4. Tents near destroyed houses
5. Various of woman checking mattresses
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Moammar, resident of Khan Younis who now lives in a tent near her destroyed home:
"There is nothing left. Everything was destroyed, homes were destroyed. Even the mosques were destroyed and people are praying in the sun. We are staying here baking bread and we set up tents in the place of our homes. We came and found our homes destroyed. There is nothing. There is no food, no water and we bring water from far away. There is water shortage and there is no food and no market. There is no transportation. What can we do. Life is very, very difficult."
7. Wide of destruction
STORYLINE:
Palestinians who were displaced from the southern city of Khan Younis to Rafah, along the border with Egypt, have returned to their homes to find most of them destroyed, forcing them to set up tents for shelter.
Families who returned to Khan Younis in recent days have found the city has suffered widespread destruction, with many buildings turned into piles of rubble.
Basic infrastructure is lacking – there is no water, food or sewage system and some residents have to walk for about a mile to get water to drink.
Over the past three weeks, Israel’s offensive in Rafah has sent nearly a million Palestinians fleeing the southern Gaza city.
Many families from Khan Younis returned to their city, to find that their homes simply don’t exist anymore.
"I cannot find where it used to begin and end. None of my neighbours or relatives have their homes (standing) here. This is the situation for everyone," Ayad Abu Khries said, after returning to his hometown.
"There is nothing left. Everything was destroyed, homes were destroyed. Even the mosques were destroyed and people are praying in the sun," said Fatima Moammar, who now lives in a tent near her destroyed house.
Israeli bombardments and ground operations in the besieged territory have killed more than 36,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians.
Israel launched its war in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.
AP video by Mohammad Jahjouh, produced by Wafaa Shurafa
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