(15 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 10 June 2024
1. Various of empty livestock farm
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iyad Al-Bayouk, owner of livestock farm:
“The time for Eid Al-Adha is approaching, and this is one of the holidays that we celebrate annually. Currently, all the farms are supposed to be full of calves, sheep, and lambs, but unfortunately, as you can see, all the farms are empty, and those inhabiting them are the displaced.”
3. Various clothes of displaced people hanging to dry in livestock farm being used as shelter
4. Child watching
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Mahmoud Al-Bayouk, butcher:
“For the sacrifices, there are no calves at all. Here the scale is working, but I do not have calves. Today the cages for the calves are full with people. I have approximately 80 people, all of whom I have sheltered, displaced from Rafah. Instead of calves, there are humans.”
6. Various of child sitting on the fence of the empty livestock farm
7. Various of children playing inside their family tent in livestock farm
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip – 11 June 2024
8. Various of displaced family sitting inside tent
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Kareem Ibrahim, displaced from Jabaliya:
“Today I am very sad because of the circumstances I am going through. During Eid and during this season, I used to work and bring money to my home and to my children, buy and sacrifice for them, feed them, and bring them everything the soul desires.They used to have Eid sweets, meat, nuts, and fruits. Today there are none."
10. Various of Abdul Kareem sitting with his family inside the tent
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Kareem Ibrahim, displaced from Jabaliya:
“I wish I had money and could buy for my children everything they wanted for Eid, because if children are not happy on Eid, when will they be happy? What is their fault? What is their fault to be deprived of schools? First of all, they are deprived of education, they are deprived of a beautiful life, they are deprived of going to school, they are deprived of going on trips, they are deprived of Eids, what is their fault?"
12. Various of Nadia Hamouda, displaced from Jabaliya sitting with children of her family
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nadia Hamouda, displaced from Jabaliya:
"No food, nothing, not even life. I personally was disgusted with life, I hated life, I hated it because of the many tragedies I saw, when my daughter was martyred, when my house was hit by shells, when I left my family behind and left, all of this affected our morale and psychology, our life and our feelings, and everything.”
14. Various of Hamouda sitting with children of her family and crying
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nadia Hamouda, displaced from Jabaliya:
“The Eid that used to come before October 7, in the past years the people rejoiced in it, and the children, everyone rejoiced in the sacrifices, it was the Eid season, it was joy and happiness for the people, today there is nothing, where is the Eid today? It is all sadness, it is all tragedies, it is all martyrdom, it is all death, the loss of loved ones, you are not at home, there is no Eid.”
16. Various of children playing outside their families’ tents
17. Various of tents
STORYLINE:
Last summer, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip celebrated the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha the way it’s supposed to be, with large family feasts, meat shared with those less fortunate, and new clothes and gifts for children.
But this year, after eight months of devastating war between Israel and Hamas, many families will eat canned food in stifling tents.
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