(15 Jun 2024)
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Khan Younis – 15 June 2024
1. Various of people with plastic containers and buckets waiting to get some water distributed by a truck near the tents
2. Various of tents of displaced people and destroyed buildings in the background
3. People in queue getting some water from a hose coming from a container
4. Various of tents, displaced people
STORYLINE:
Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip queued on Saturday under the blazing sun to get water from trucks in Khan Younis, where tens of thousands are mainly living in plastic tents.
Displaced people are struggling with the high temperatures, lack of water and lack of supplies.
Almost 80% of Gaza’s population has fled from their homes since the war erupted in October.
Hundreds of thousands have been displaced several times due to the Israeli military operations in different areas of the Gaza Strip.
With little aid entering the enclave, especially after the closing of the Rafah crossing, people have been struggling to acquire basic food and goods.
While the humanitarian situation worsened, the expectations for a cease-fire deal decreased.
Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has killed more than 37,100 people, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.
Tens of thousands of the victims are children and women.
Israel launched the war after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.
Over 100 hostages were released during a weeklong cease-fire in November last year, in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
Seven others have been freed by military force since the start of the war.
Another three were mistakenly killed by Israeli forces after they escaped on their own, and Hamas says others have been killed in Israeli airstrikes.
About 80 hostages and the remains of over 40 others are still held in Gaza.
AP video by Abdel Kareem Hana
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