(10 Jan 2025)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 9 January 2025
1. Various of women from Abu Awad family in the cemetery sitting near graves of their relatives who were killed in Israeli airstrike
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Abu Awad, lost her son and grandchildren in Israeli airstrike:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 1 & 3-6++
"We were waiting for news of the truce, every day, but there was no truce. News came about my sons, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. Six people were martyred. How long will this war last? And this bombing? How long will this killing of Muslims last? For how long? We have become 46 thousand martyrs and no one cares about us."
3. Graves of Abu Awad family members who were killed in Israeli airstrike
4. Boy watering graves
5. Women from Abu Awad family sitting near graves of their relatives
6. Various of women sitting inside classroom with Abu Awad family women to console them
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Malak Abu Awad, lost her brother and nephews:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOT 6 & 8-9++
"46 thousand martyrs, what remains? Today, we lost six people on the same day. Every day there is hope in negotiations, hope that there will be a truce, or that the war will end. We have spent a year and two months waiting for a truce, and every time the hope is in vain. There is no truce. On the contrary, we wake up to more martyrs and lose more of our loved ones"
8. Various of children watching videos of Abu Awad children who were killed in Israeli airstrike
9. Various of Malak Abu Awad showing children photos of killed children in her phone
10. Various of woman consoling Abu Awad woman
STORYLINE:
For Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the killings of loved ones in continues despite talks of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Fatma Abu Awad lost six of her family members on Tuesday due to two Israeli strikes that were 15 minutes apart.
On Thursday as she mourned the dead at a cemetery, Gaza’s health ministry announced that the death toll had surpassed 46,000, with 109,378 Palestinians injured since the war began on October 7, 2023.
Abu Awad, a displaced woman currently staying in a school-turned shelter in Khan Younis, described how an Israeli strike on a vehicle killed her son, while a separate attack on a tent in Muwasi in Khan Younis the same day injured another son and killed his wife and four children.
“I swear we were waiting for news about a truce every day but there was no truce, only news of my son and my daughter in law and their children being killed," she cried.
Malak Abu Awad, who lost her brother and nephews, spoke of her sadness and frustration at the lack of a ceasefire.
"We have spent a year and two months waiting for a truce, and every time the hope is in vain. There is no truce. On the contrary, we wake up to more martyrs and lose more of our loved ones," she said.
The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and abducting around 250.
A third of the 100 hostages still in Gaza are believed to be dead.
AP Video by Mohammad Jahjouh
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