(25 May 2024)
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Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip – 25 May 2024
1. Wide of makeshift housing
2. Wide of makeshift housing on beach
3. Various of makeshift housing
STORYLINE:
Cramped makeshift housing for displaced people in the Deir al Balah area of Gaza has expanded onto the beach as people look for safe places to shelter.
On Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to end its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and to open the nearby border crossing for crucial humanitarian aid.
The top United Nations court also said Israel must give war crimes investigators access to Gaza.
In the past two weeks, more than a million Palestinians fled Rafah as Israeli forces pressed deeper into the city.
People displaced by fighting lack shelter, food, water and other essentials for survival, the U.N. says.
Israel says it needs to invade Rafah to destroy Hamas militants’ last stronghold.
Egypt said Friday it agreed to send U.N. humanitarian aid trucks through the Kerem Shalom border crossing, Israel’s main entry point into southern Gaza.
But it remains unclear if the trucks will be able to enter because fighting still rages in Rafah.
Israeli bombardments and ground offensives in Gaza have killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians.
Israel launched its war in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed about 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.
Israel says around 100 hostages are still captive in Gaza, along with the bodies of around 30 more.
AP video shot by Abdel Kareem Hana
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