(5 Dec 2024)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 4 December 2024
1. Various of people carrying their belongings and fleeing from Beit Lahiya on foot and by donkey carts ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sadeia Al-Rahel, displaced from Beit Lahiya:
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"Four bombs were dropped, and there were wounded and body parts. We ran away. For a year and two months we have been eating grass and animal feed, and no one cares about us."
3. Various of people carrying their belongings and fleeing
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hafez Warshal, displaced from Beit Lahiya:
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"For 13 months we have been holding out in Beit Lahiya. The army made an unusual incursion with heavy bombardment on us. The quadcopter (drone) came to the school and threw bombs. My father injured both his hands and is currently in Kamal Adwan Hospital. As I was coming the army stopped me and forced me to throw away my clothes and my cell phone. So here I am pushing my disabled brother from Beit Lahiya and no one is helping us."
5. People with their belongings and fleeing
STORYLINE:
Dozens of Palestinian families in northern Gaza said Wednesday they were forcibly displaced when Israel’s military expelled them from schools they were using as makeshift shelters.
Associated Press footage showed families on the road leaving Beit Lahia and heading south with nowhere to go.
Some left on foot while others used motorized rickshaws, bicycles or donkey carts to carry kids, older adults and their remaining belongings.
The fleeing civilians said Israel was expanding its major offensive in the north, the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip, which Israeli forces have almost completely besieged since early October. Experts say famine may be underway there.
Sadeia al-Rahel said Wednesday she was staying in a school in the town of Beit Lahiya when Israel’s military dropped leaflets ordering everyone to evacuate.
"Four bombs were dropped, and there were wounded and body parts. We ran away," she said.
The 57-year-old said her family had been eating grass and animal feed for two months due to the lack of food aid in the north.
"No one cares about us,” she added.
Al-Rahel said her family didn’t even take blankets with them as they left.
Meanwhile, 20-year-old Hafez Warshal stayed in Beit Lahia with his family for 13 months before evacuating the school where he was sheltering.
He said he had no idea where he would go next.
Israel’s war against Hamas 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.
The International Criminal Court is seeking to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over accusations of using “starvation as a method of warfare” by restricting humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Israel rejects the allegations and says it has been working hard to improve the entry of aid.
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