(7 Jul 2024)
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Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 7 July 2024
1. Various of child sitting at entrance to his family’s tent
2. Various of children playing near tents
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zakia Hassanein, displaced woman from Gaza City:
“For how much longer will we go through this suffering? One doesn’t have a shekel (money to buy food) to eat. I have nothing to spend. We hoped to buy something. Since we have been forced to leave our homes, we haven’t eaten meat, fruits, vegetables. I am an 80-year-old woman. We don’t have cash. We don’t have gold. We have nothing. For how much longer will this situation last? For the sake of Allah, (Hamas political chief (Ismail) Haniyeh, for the sake of Allah (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, look at these dying people. We’re dead – not living – people.”
4. Various of tents, people passing by
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Bakeir, displaced man from Gaza City:
"Since the first month of the war, until the ninth month, we have been waiting for (peace) negotiations everyday, but surprisingly they say they failed. After two or three weeks or a month, they say it (the negotiations) failed. We no longer have hope. We despair of life. We found ourselves preparing our luggage to return to (our homes in) Gaza (City) to find them saying that it (the negotiations) failed."
6. Various of displaced woman baking in makeshift oven
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Heba Radi, displaced mother of six children, whose family have been displaced five times:
“We have lived through nine months of suffering. Each day passes as if it’s a year. (The cost of) living is so expensive. One hundred shekels are the equivalent of 10 shekels (before the war). Life is difficult. As for our children’s lives, we are trying to make lives for our children."
8. Various of Radi and hands covered with soot as she cooks
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Heba Radi, displaced mother of six children, whose family have been displaced five times:
"Everyday, we tell ourselves tomorrow (there will be a cease-fire). And tomorrow will be better. And when tomorrow comes, they say it has been postponed. It (the cease-fire) has become a dream, a distant dream. The cease-fire has become a distant dream."
10. Various of people walking near tents
STORYLINE:
War-weary Palestinians in the Gaza Strip expressed doubt that a cease-fire deal could be reached soon as nine months of the Israel-Hamas war was marked on Sunday.
International mediators have renewed efforts to broker a deal, with Hamas over the weekend appearing to have dropped a key demand for an Israeli commitment to end the war, according to Egyptian and Hamas officials who spoke to The Associated Press.
This could deliver the first pause in fighting since November and set the stage for further talks.
But Hamas have demanded guarantees from mediators that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will continue to negotiate a permanent cease-fire.
Netanyahu had previously said he was open to pausing the war as part of a hostage deal, but added that Israel would press on until it reached its goals of destroying Hamas’ military and governing capabilities and bringing all hostages home.
“We have lived through nine months of suffering,” Heba Radi, a displaced woman, said in an interview.
“The cease-fire has become a distant dream,” she added.
The mother of six children spoke from her tent in the central city of Deir al-Balah where she has been sheltering after fleeing the family’s home in Gaza City.
But their hopes have been dashed as both sides have dug in.
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