(20 Jan 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS IMAGES OF HUMAN REMAINS++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rafah, southern Gaza Strip – 20 January 2025
1. Wide of people returning to Rafah
2. Various of destruction
3. Various of woman inspecting rubble of her house
4. Destroyed building
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Abu Al-Kheir, resident who lost his house:
"We came from Khan Yunis. We lived in tents in Khan Yunis. We came to the house but found destruction, everything was destroyed. There is no place to live in. There is no furniture or anything."
6. Wide of damage
7. Various of skull among rubble
8. Wide of rubble
9. Man removing rubble from his apartment
10. Various of destruction, people inspecting rubble
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Khamis, resident who lost his house:
"There are no necessities for life; no water, no food, no life. Who wants to live in such destruction? No one will come to live here."
12. Various of people near destroyed Israeli military vehicles
13. Various of destruction
STORYLINE:
Palestinians have returned to their homes in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah to find massive destruction.
A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, which began on Sunday, has allowed many to return to their homes across the enclave after 15 months of war.
Residents returning to Rafah found homes and neighbourhoods flattened after eight months of Israeli military offensives in the city.
“We came to the house but found destruction, everything was destroyed,” said Mohamed Abu Al-Kheir, a Palestinian man who had been sheltering in a tent in the city of Khan Younis.
“There is no place to live in. There is no furniture or anything,” he added.
Associated Press footage showed large swaths of Rafah turned into rubble.
People were seen searching the remains of their homes. Others searched two military vehicles that Israeli forces left behind when they withdrew from the area.
“Who wants to live in such destruction? No one will come to live here,” said Mahmoud Khamis, another Rafah resident whose house was destroyed.
Production: Wafaa Shurafa
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