(8 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rafah, Gaza Strip – 8 May 2024
1. Various of smoke rising after Israeli airstrike hit the roof of building, people in the street
2. Various of people evacuating from UNRWA school, loading their luggage in donkey carts
3. Various of people collecting their belongings in the school yard to evacuate
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Muhammad Rayhan, displaced person:
"We evacuated from here because of the leaflets that the Israeli army threw on us. In addition, they called us on our mobile phones and told us to evacuate the entire area, even though we know that there is no evacuation of schools in Rafah, only the crossing area, but they insisted that we evacuate this area completely."
5. Donkey cart loaded with luggage leaving
6. Various of people collecting their belongings in the school yard to evacuate
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nuzhat Jarjer, displaced person:
"The war has caught up with us even in schools. There is no safe place at all. We want international protection to take care of us. During the war, we kept moving from one school to another."
8. People standing near their luggage inside UNRWA school
9. Woman carrying her luggage and leaving
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Muwasi, Gaza Strip – 8 May 2024
10. Various of people building new tent in Muwasi
11. Various of women cleaning the sand inside the tent
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iyad Al-Masry, displaced person:
"They threw leaflets on us while we were in Rafah, to evacuate. We wanted to evacuate, but we do not have money for transportation to move. We do not have money to buy a tent. We were forced to sell our food, water and flour that we received from UNRWA so that we could afford a tent, it cost 1,400 shekels (about $377), which we were supposed to receive as aid. They were sold to us for 1,400 shekels. And now we’re sitting like this as we are (with nothing). The bathroom we built with our women’s clothes."
13. Al-Masry, family sitting inside the tent
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iyad Al-Masry, displaced person:
"There is no water. I walked a kilometer and a half in the morning to get water to wash with. The water is not drinkable. The water seller says the gallon is for three shekels. We don’t even have three shekels to buy a gallon of water. We want to eat, but we sold the food and the drinks to buy a tent, we are just waiting for God’s mercy."
15. Various of children and woman sitting on the ground out of the tent
STORYLINE:
Dozens of Palestinians fled central Rafah Wednesday following Israel’s ground invasions and evacuation order of the city’s eastern suburbs.
Residents were seen packing up their belongings in bags that were loaded on cars and carts heading in different directions seeking safety.
"We evacuated from here because of the leaflets that the Israeli army threw on us. In addition, they called us on our mobile phones and told us to evacuate the entire area," said Mohammed Rayhan, a displaced person.
Many headed to an area west of the city known as Muwasi, a coastal strip designated as a safe zone by the Israeli military.
But the area has swelled in size with the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency estimating that over 450,000 displaced Palestinians are sheltering there, mostly living in tents.
Residents say basic food products and essential items have become unaffordable there, including drinking water.
The Israeli tanks that entered the periphery of Rafah early Tuesday stoked global fears that an offensive on Gaza’s southernmost city could endanger the more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there.
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