(5 May 2024)
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++PLEASE NOTE EDIT CONTAINS FOOTAGE OF BODY BAGS AND THE SHROUDED REMAINS OF A BABY++
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Rafah, Gaza Strip – 6 May 2024
1. Health Ministry employee writing name of child killed in Israeli airstrike on body bag
2. Various of people checking covered bodies
3. Various of Rasha Qishta, relative of victims, mourning them
4. Shrouded body of baby, face barely visible, next to other bodies on the ground ++GRAPHIC++
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rasha Qishta, relative of airstrike victims:
"This baby, his father and mother were martyred in Tal al-Sultan (in Rafah). A Zionist (Israeli) plane bombed their house. My brother and his wife were martyred immediately, and their son remained (alive). His mother was pregnant with him, in the eighth month, and the doctors saved him at the last moment. He was born and his mother was martyred. And his two sisters remained, and they moved to their grandfather’s house. Also today, they bombed their grandfather’s house, and the child was martyred, and his two sisters remained. We do not know their condition, they are still under the rubble."
7. People gathering near bodies on the ground
STORYLINE:
Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children, Palestinian health officials said.
One of the children killed in the strikes overnight into Monday was just five-days-old.
At least nine people were killed in a single strike that hit a residential home, according to The Associated Press journalists.
The bodies were taken to the nearby al-Najjar Hospital, where they were seen and counted by AP journalists there.
Israel has regularly carried out airstrikes on Rafah since the start of the war and has threatened to send in ground troops, saying Rafah is the last major Hamas stronghold in the coastal enclave.
Over a million Palestinians have sought refuge in the city on the Egyptian border.
The United States and others have urged Israel not to invade, fearing a humanitarian catastrophe.
The Hamas cross-border attack on Oct. 7 killed some 1,200 people and took 250 others hostage.
Israel says militants still hold around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others.
Israeli’s air and ground offensive has killed over 34,500 people, according to Palestinian health officials, who don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants but say women and children make up a majority of those killed.
AP video by Ismael Abu Dayyah
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
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