(31 Jul 2024)
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Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip – 31 July 2024
1. Various of people walking in street
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nour Abu Salama, displaced from Jabaliya:
"This made us very sad because he was a political man and he was trying to end this war. This is something that made us sad. The Jews (Israel) are continuing the bloodbath. They don’t want the war to stop. They want the Palestinian bloodshed to continue. You hope that there will be a cease-fire and this war will end. By assassinating Haniyeh, they are destroying everything. They don’t want peace. They don’t want a deal. They don’t want anyone to negotiate on our behalf. They want the Palestinian bloodshed to continue."
3. People in the street
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saleh Shunnar, displaced from Jabaliya:
"This man could’ve signed the prisoner exchange deal with Israel. Why did they kill him? They killed peace, not Ismail Haniyeh. Israel killed the entire peace project. Why did they kill him?"
5. People in the street
STORYLINE:
Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza reacted to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in an airstrike in Tehran Wednesday.
The Hamas leader was killed by a predawn airstrike in the Iranian capital, Iran and the militant group said, blaming Israel for a shock assassination that risks escalating the conflict even as the U.S. and other nations were scrambling to prevent an all-out regional war.
Palestinians have expressed their shock and concern at the news of his death.
Saleh Shunnar, displaced from Jabaliya, said "this man could’ve signed the prisoner exchange deal with Israel. Why did they kill him? They killed peace, not Ismail Haniyeh."
Nour Abu Salama, displaced from Jabaliya, said Haniyeh was "a political man and he was trying to end this war."
The dramatic assassination of Haniyeh threatens to reverberate throughout the region’s intertwined conflicts.
Most explosively, the strike in Tehran could push Iran and Israel into direct conflict if Iran retaliates.
Haniyeh’s killing could also prompt Hamas to pull out of negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage release deal in the 10-month-old war in Gaza, which U.S. mediators had said were making progress.
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