(22 Jul 2024)
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++EDIT CONTAINS FOOTAGE OF INJURED BEING TREATED, INCLUDING CHILDREN++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Muwasi (Khan Younis), Gaza Strip – 22 July 2024
1. Various of people running after Israeli airstrike, smoke rising
2. Various of people walking around streets, smoke in air
3. Various of smoke rising after Israeli airstrike, people evacuating
4. Ambulance and cars leaving area
5. Various of people evacuating in destroyed street
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 22 July 2024
6. Various of people pushing injured boy on stretcher inside emergency department
7. Various of injured people receiving treatment
8. Woman shouting and crying near her injured relative
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people took their belongings and once again were forced to evacuate from part of Muwasi, in Khan Younis, following an Israeli military order on Monday.
The order asked people to flee from part of an area in the Gaza Strip it has designated a humanitarian zone.
Carrying bags, some clothes and what was left and possible to take, Palestinians walking or in donkey carts tried to move while the loud explosions and smoke of the shelling hit the area nearby.
The military said it is planning to begin an operation against Hamas militants who have embedded themselves in the area and used it to launch rockets toward Israel.
The area includes the eastern part of the Muwasi humanitarian zone, which is located in the southern Gaza Strip.
Many Palestinians have been uprooted multiple times in search of safety during Israel’s punishing air and ground campaign.
Earlier this month, Israel said it estimates at least 1.8 million Palestinians are now in the humanitarian zone it declared, covering a stretch of about 14 kilometres (8.6 miles) along the Mediterranean.
Much of that area is now blanketed with tent camps that lack sanitation and medical facilities, and have limited access to aid, U.N. and humanitarian groups say.
Families live in the midst of mountains of trash and streams contaminated by sewage.
The announcement came during delicate negotiations seeking a cease-fire in Gaza, with U.S. and Israeli officials expressing hope that an agreement is closer than ever.
A negotiating team will be sent to continue talks on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said.
Egypt, Qatar and the United States are continuing to push Israel and Hamas toward a phased cease-fire deal that would stop the fighting and free the hostages.
Netanyahu left Monday morning on a much-anticipated trip to the United States to meet with President Joe Biden, who announced Sunday that he will not seek another term, and address Congress.
The war in Gaza has killed more than 39,000 people, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.
The war was triggered by an assault by Hamas militants on southern Israel on October 7 that killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took about 250 hostages.
About 120 remain held, about a third of them believed to be dead, according to Israeli authorities.
The Israeli military said on Monday that it is continuing to operate in central and southern Gaza.
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