(26 Aug 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip – 26 August 2024
1. Various of displaced people dismantling their tents which the installed near al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahdi Tafish, man displaced from Gaza City:
"They ordered us to evacuate, and now we are evacuating. We are only afraid for our children. What can we do more than this? What is happening to us is not right, I swear. What is happening to us is wrong! What should we do?"
3. Various of displaced people collecting their belongings to flee the area
4. Various of displaced families sitting in the shade next to a wall in the street
5. Various of people collecting their belongings to leave
6. Various of people carrying their belongings, and escorting patients while leaving the hospital
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Adliyeh al-Najar, sick woman:
"A warning came to evacuate the hospital. We are still undergoing treatment and need painkillers. Where do we go? Where do we get treatment now? I am sick and my body is shaking. Where do I go?"
8. Al-Najar sitting on the ground in the hospital yard
9. Various of people carrying their belongings and evacuating
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) no name give, elderly woman fleeing:
"We don’t know where we are going. Qw don’t have money, food or drink. We don’t have anything. We have children. Where should we go?"
11. Various of people fleeing with their belongings
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatimah al-Attar, woman displaced from Gaza City:
"Our fate is that we will die here; this is how we see it. Our lives are over."
13. People fleeing
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatimah al-Attar, woman displaced from Gaza City:
"There is no safe place. There is no place left for us. We do not know where to go to."
15. Various of people loading their belongings onto truck
16. Various of empty beds inside departments of the hospital
17. Various of doctors speaking
18. Various of empty beds in the hospital
STORYLINE:
Thousands of Palestinian people, including patients, have been forced to flee their shelters in and around the main hospital in central Gaza following an evacuation order by the Israeli military of areas around the facility.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the town of Deir al-Balah did not receive an evacuation order itself, but many panicked and fled after the Israeli military ordered another mass evacuation of the area around the facility.
Four schools sheltering displaced people in the area have also been evacuated.
The displaced headed westward to the so-called Muwasi safe zone.
Associated Press journalists in the area saw people packing whatever they could and fleeing the area.
Many fled on foot, others managed to find vehicles to move their luggage.
Some were seen carrying blankets, mattresses and clothes.
Others were seen carrying their sick children and pushing their patients on hospital beds.
"We are still undergoing treatment and need painkillers. Where do we go? Where do we get treatment now? I am sick and my body is shaking." said Adliyeh al-Najar while resting outside the hospital gate.
Fatimah al-Attar was desperate to find a safe place.
"Our fate is that we will die here" she said, fighting her tears. "There is no safe place. There is no place left for us. We do not know where to go to."
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah is one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals.
Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals for military purposes, allegations denied by Palestinian health officials.
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