(1 May 2024)
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Rafah, Gaza Strip – 1 May 2024
1. Various of hundreds of tents being used by displaced people
2. People walking in the street near tents
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad Se’da, displaced from Gaza City:
"People here are looking for places to seek refuge away from the Israeli invasion, but the real fear for the displaced is that there is no safe place in the Gaza Strip, north, south, east and west, only if the war to stop permanently."
4. Se’da speaking with his neighbours in the tents
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salwa Abu Hatab, displaced from Khan Younis:
"Of course we are afraid, but God willing, there will be a solution before the invasion begins. Where will the people go? Everyone is in Rafah, and Rafah is full and you can see the overpopulation, people displaced from the north, where do they go? There is evens no place in Mawasi Khan Younis."
6. Abu Hatam standing with her family
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salwa Abu Hatab, displaced from Khan Younis:
"We want there to be a truce and we can return to our homes and our normal lives. Do you think we like life in tents? We are tired and suffering in the tents. We want to return to our homes, but every day they say there is a truce and negotiations, and in the end it fails. We hope they will succeed this time, but I see that everything is useless."
8. People walking in the street
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Enas Syam, displaced from Gaza city:
"We are afraid at any moment that there will be an invasion of Rafah, and even if the invasion happens we do not know where to go. There is no safe place left. I have a child and I do not know where to take him, so we are all afraid of the invasion, and God willing, there will be truce because every time they say there is a truce and we are losing hope in it, but we hope this time that there will be a truce."
10. Various of displaced people gathering to fill water
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Ghaben, displaced from Gaza City:
"I was not optimistic that any negotiations would succeed, but this time I hope that the negotiations will succeed. This time I am optimistic. I hope that they will succeed and we will return to our homes, and the war will end and there will be no military operation in Rafah."
12. Various of tents that people use as shelter
STORYLINE:
Palestinians in south Gaza expressed expressed cautious optimism on Wednesday a cease-fire deal would be reached between Israel and Hamas in the latest round of talks.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli leaders on Wednesday in his push for a cease-fire deal, saying “the time is now” for an agreement that would free hostages and bring a pause in the nearly seven months of war in Gaza.
The current round of talks appears to be serious, but the sides remain far apart on one key issue — whether the war should end as part of an emerging deal.
Displaced people in the city of Rafah said they wanted an end to the suffering and hardship caused by the ongoing Israeli offensive in the territory.
"We want there to be a truce and we can return to our homes and our normal lives. Do you think we like life in tents? We are tired and suffering in the tents," said Salwa Abu Hatab, from Khan Younis, said standing with her family.
"I was not optimistic that any negotiations would succeed, but this time I hope that the negotiations will succeed. This time I am optimistic," Mahmoud Ghaben, a displaced resident from Gaza City.
"I hope that they will succeed and we will return to our homes, and the war will end and there will be no military operation in Rafah."
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