(1 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rafah, Gaza Strip – 1 May 2024
1. Various of Fayza Abu Shanab, the grandmother of two children who were killed in Israeli airstrike, showing photos of children on her mobile
2. Various of family member sitting near the bodies of two children
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fayza Abu Shanab, grandmother of two children who were killed in Israeli airstrike:
"They played yesterday. She took him to bed. The brutal missile came, and bombed them. It bombed them and they died. The children are their target. This child, what is his guilt? The child wants a toy to play with. He wants to play and run.”
4. Various of destroyed house where the two children were killed, children gathering near the rubble
STORYLINE:
An Israeli airstrike hit a house in central Rafah late Tuesday, killing at least two children, according to hospital authorities.
The bodies of the dead children were taken to the Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital.
An Associated Press journalist saw the bodies at the hospital morgue as their relatives mourned the children’s deaths.
Grief stricken grandmother Fayza Abu Shanab showed the AP pictures of her dead grandchildren on her phone as she tried to make sense of her loss.
"They played yesterday," she said. "She took him to bed. The brutal missile came, and bombed them. It bombed them and they died. The children are their target. This child, what is his guilt? The child wants a toy to play with. He wants to play and run," she added through tears.
The Gaza Health Ministry said Wednesday the bodies of 33 people killed by Israeli strikes had been brought to local hospitals over the past 24 hours.
Hospitals also received 57 wounded, it said in its daily report.
That brings the overall Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Hamas war to at least 34,568, the ministry said.
Another 77,765 have been wounded, it said.
The Health Ministry does not distinguish between fighters and civilians in its tallies, but says that women and children make up around two thirds of those killed.
The Israeli military says it has killed 13,000 militants, without providing evidence to back up the claim.
The war was triggered by Hamas’ attack on southern Israel on October 7 in which 1,200 people were killed and about 250 people were taken hostage.
AP video shot by Mohammad Jahjouh
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
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