(14 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 13 May 2024
1. Various of displaced people inspecting destruction at an U.N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) school
2. Various of women clearing rubble from inside school building
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Umm Ghassan Al-Masry, displaced from Beit Hanoun: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 4 TO 7++
"We came to these schools to reclaim a place in which to settle, as a shelter. We did not find a better place than it. There is no water, no electricity, there is no life. We and the girls and boys try as much as we can to find shelter. Its unliveable, but we want shelter. There is no shelter other than this. There are no houses, no streets, no tents, or anything."
4. Hole in roof
5. Various of woman cleaning a classroom to use as a shelter
6. Building covering with fabric
7. Women sitting on the ground outside classroom
STORYLINE:
A group of displaced Palestinians have moved into a school run by a U.N. agency that was heavily damaged during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and fixed some of the classrooms where they now live.
The school in the southern city of Khan Younis used to be run by the U.N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees, known as UNRWA, was damaged by Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
The families, who were displaced from the southern city of Rafah along the border with Egypt, cleaned some of the classrooms, removed debris and fixed some of the damage then settled in.
Around 450,000 Palestinians have been driven out of Rafah in Gaza’s south over the past week, UNRWA said Tuesday.
There were roughly 1.3 million people sheltering in Rafah before Israel began pushing into the city, which Israel says is the last Hamas stronghold.
Israel has portrayed Rafah as the last stronghold of the militant group, brushing off warnings from the United States and other allies that any major operation there would be catastrophic for civilians.
Hamas has meanwhile regrouped and is battling Israeli forces in parts of Gaza that Israel bombarded and invaded earlier in the war.
For the past week, the Israeli military has intensified bombardment and other operations in Rafah while ordering the population to evacuate from parts of the city.
Israel insists it is a limited operation focused on rooting out tunnels and other militant infrastructure along the border with Egypt.
The war was triggered by Hamas’ attack on southern Israel on October 7, in which 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians, and another 250 taken hostage.
More than 35,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed since Israel launched its offensive in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants in its figures.
Israel says it has killed over 13,000 militants, without providing evidence
AP video by Mohammad Jahjouh
AP production by Wafaa Shurafa
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