(2 Nov 2024)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 1 November 2024
1. Various of UNRWA school which displaced people are using as a shelter
2. Various of people gathering near truck providing water to fill their containers
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wade’ Al Masri, displaced person:
"We left Jabaliya camp to the western Gaza area. There is no safe place. We left under bombardment, and the place here is uninhabitable. There is no aid, food, or drink. The situation is very difficult and tragic."
4. Various of children sitting near water containers waiting to fill them
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Abed Abu Aisha, displaced person:
"People are exhausted, people have died of hunger, there is no food, no shelter, and no water. Since yesterday night, we have been coordinating to get a water truck for the people. Until now, people are without food, without water, without sanitation, without any kind of necessities of life. The situation is very bad."
6. Various of displaced children outside classrooms
7. Various of children eating
8. Children sitting inside classroom
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Samar Al Kafarna, displaced person:
"We have nothing. We sleep on the floor all night. My little daughter is a month old. We did not take any of her things, not a carton of milk or anything. She was lying on the floor all night. There is nothing to sit on. Look what we filled up with? We filled water in cups. The water came and we had nothing to fill with water. We were unable to wash or drink. Every day the Jews entered and we fled. Every day we were displaced. I swear we were bored. We wanted anyone to stand with us. Any Arab country would be shy and stand with us."
10. Various of displaced people sitting in corridors outside classrooms
11. Various of destruction in UNRWA school
STORYLINE:
More than a year into a war that has ricocheted across the Middle East, Israeli troops are still battling Hamas in the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip.
Around a million people fled the north, including Gaza City, when Israel ordered its wholesale evacuation at the start of the war.
They have not been allowed to return.
Some 400,000 have remained, even as Israel has encircled the area and obliterated entire neighbourhoods and critical infrastructure.
The UN says at least 60,000 people have fled to Gaza City in recent weeks from Jabaliya and the northern border towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya.
Dozens of families are seeking shelter in a damaged UNWRA school in Gaza City where resources are scarce.
Instead of queueing up to enter classrooms for lessons, children are queuing up with containers to fill them with water from an aid truck.
"There is no safe place. We left under bombardment, and the place here is uninhabitable. There is no aid, food, or drink. The situation is very difficult and tragic," said Wade’ Al Masri, who came from Jabaliya camp, where Israel launched its latest offensive in northern Gaza in early October.
Israel says Hamas has regrouped in the crowded, decades-old urban refugee camp.
One displaced woman also sheltering with her family in the school say they took almost nothing with them when forced to flee, and that they were sleeping on the floor.
The recent killing of its top leader, Yahya Sinwar, was viewed as a possible turning point, yet the two sides do not appear any closer to a cease-fire, and Hamas, which still holds scores of hostages, remains the dominant power in Gaza.
In northern Gaza, the war seems stuck in a loop of devastating Israeli offensives, followed by Hamas fighters regrouping.
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