(24 Sep 2024)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 22 September 2024
1. Various of displaced people walking near tents
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nezar Zaqout, displaced from Gaza:
"All the news and all the media now focuses on Lebanon. Gaza was forgotten. Every day we heard that there was hope for negotiations, or new news that they were trying to solve the issue of the displaced by returning the people of Gaza to the north and returning the people of the south to their homes in Rafah, and the people of Khan Younis to their governorate. But we have become completely forgotten. There is no news about us in the media. The news and focus are on Lebanon and Hezbollah and what is happening there. We have been suffering and drowning in rain water for a year, and we have been tired for a year and no one cares about us at all."
3. Displaced people walking
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saadi Abu Mustafa, from Khan Younis:
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"They leave Gaza without negotiations, without a prisoner deal, without a cease-fire. This will affect us negatively. The situation is scary and difficult. A year on, and no one cares about us. Every day there is bombing, every day there are martyrs, and every day there are injuries. We hope that there will be a cease-fire and a prisoner deal so people can live and can go back to their lives."
5. Various of people in the street
STORYLINE:
As tensions boil between Hezbollah and the Israeli military in southern Lebanon and northern Israel, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip now fear the war in Gaza and the worsening humanitarian crisis might be forgotten.
"All the news and all the media now focuses on Lebanon. Gaza was forgotten," Nezar Zaqout who lives in a tent in the Muwasi camp told The Associated Press.
“Every day we heard that there was hope for negotiations, or new news that they were trying to solve the issue of the displaced… but we have become completely forgotten," he added.
In the sprawl of camps where Zaqout and other displaced Palestinians now seek shelter along the coast that Israel had designated as a humanitarian zone, children walk on dirt roads muddied by overnight rainstorms to wait in line for bread.
Saadi Abu Mustafa had hoped that efforts for a ceasefire deal through Qatari, Egyptian, and American mediators would eventually work out.
He fears that the escalations and media focus on Lebanon, where Hezbollah says it is confronting Israel to back its allies Hamas in Gaza will “affect us negatively.”
"They leave Gaza without negotiations, without a prisoner deal, without a ceasefire," he said.
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