(4 Dec 2024)
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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF DEAD BODIES, INCLUDING CHILDREN++
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 4 December 2024
1. Various of health workers checking bodies inside Nasser Hospital morgue, putting them into body bags
2. Various of bodies lying on stands in morgue
3. Workers and bodies in morgue
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iman Juma’a, daughter and sister of strike victims:
"My father and my brothers were martyred. We were sitting safely, and then it was like doomsday and my brothers, my father, and my brothers’ children were martyred."
5. Body of child lying inside morgue
6. Burnt hand of covered baby’s body
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sami Al-Aqad, injured Palestinian:
"I was at the entrance to my tent, next to my tent, when the airstrike happened and it caught fire, and a lump fell near us, and the fire caught me up. With difficulty until I extinguished it."
8. Various of people gathering outside morgue ++NIGHT SHOTS++
9. Various of ambulances out of emergency department ++NIGHT SHOTS++
STORYLINE:
A Palestinian health official said Wednesday that at least 21 people were killed by an Israeli strike on a camp housing displaced people in southern Gaza.
Atif Al-Hout, the director of Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, said 28 people were also wounded.
At least 15 bodies arrived at the hospital, but reaching a precise number of dead was difficult because many were dismembered, some without heads or badly burned.
The strike hit in the Muwasi area, a sprawling coastal camp housing hundreds of thousands of displaced people.
The Israeli military said its aircraft struck senior Hamas militants “involved in terrorist activities” in the area.
The military said that the strike had set off secondary explosions, indicating explosives present in the area were set off.
It was not possible to independently confirm the Israeli claims, and the strike could also have ignited fuel, cooking gas canisters or other materials in the camp.
Earlier strikes on central Gaza killed eight people, including four children.
Israel’s war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting around 250 people.
Some 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, at least a third of whom are believed to be dead.
Israel’s offensive has killed over 44,500 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not say how many were combatants.
The Israeli military says it has killed over 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.
Israel says it tries to avoid harming civilians and blames Hamas for their deaths because the militants often operate in residential areas and are known to position tunnels, rocket launchers and other infrastructure near homes, schools and mosques.
AP video shot by: Mohammad Jahjouh.
Production by Wafaa Shurafa.
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