(4 Oct 2024)
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Tulkarem Refugee Camp, West Bank – 4 October 2024
1. Various of destruction in a coffee shop and an apartment following an Israeli military strike on Tulkarem refugee camp
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nimer Fayad, owner of the coffee shop:
"At approximately 10:15 to 10:20 p.m., the coffee shop was targeted by a missile fired from warplanes. Inside the coffee shop, there were several civilian young men and the usual regular customers who come to eat and drink. What happened was a very strong blow, the likes of which we had not seen in the past since the Al-Aqsa Intifada. At least 16 people were martyred, including an entire family, which was erased from the civil records, including the father, mother and children."
3. Various of people amid destruction
4. people checking the destruction, rubble of apartment
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Jibra, Tulkarem resident:
"There was intense movement of planes, most likely F-16 warplanes. The area below is the coffee shop, and up here is the family house. My brother-in-law, his wife, and two children were here, as was his brother-in-law. When the bombardment happened, it was unimaginable; it was like a lightning bolt. The destruction is obvious. Until now, we cannot identify his body. This is the work of the criminal occupation, which does not take into account the presence of a child, a woman, an elderly person or a young person. Everything is permissible for them."
6. Various of people looking through rubble
7. Paramedics looking for human remains
8. Close of brick wall with bullet holes
9. People inspecting destruction
STORYLINE:
An Israeli airstrike which crashed into a crowded cafe in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank killed 18 Palestinians, including a family of four, witnesses and relatives told The Associated Press on Friday.
The strike pummeled a three-story building in Tulkarem, a city in the north of the West Bank, late Thursday, setting the building on fire, blowing bodies to bits and destroying the popular cafe on the ground floor.
It was the deadliest strike in the West Bank since the start of the war on Oct. 7.
The Israeli military said the strike had killed Hamas’s leader in the camp, who it said had planned and taken part in multiple attacks against Israeli civilians, as well as several other militants.
But witnesses and relatives of the dead said the strike also killed civilians, including a young girl and boy.
Tulkarem is a flashpoint city in the West Bank, known to be a bastion of Palestinian militancy.
Hamas did not immediately claim any of the dead as its fighters, but condemned the strike and called for Palestinians in Tulkarem to rise up.
On Friday, paramedics searched the rubble inside the blasted-out coffee shop for human remains, gathering them into small boxes.
Young boys and men walked amid the ruins of the shop, with holes in the ceiling and piles of rubble blanketing the ground, digging past bloodstained furniture and dislodged iron beams for anything to salvage.
Nimer Fayad, the owner of Dr. Coffee, said the cafe was full with "the regular customers coming to eat and drink" when the strike occurred around 10:15 p.m.
“What happened was a very strong blow, the likes of which we had not seen in the past since the Al-Aqsa Intifada," he said, using a Palestinian term for the second intifada, or uprising.
"My brother-in-law, his wife, and two children were here, as was his brother-in-law. When the bombardment happened, it was unimaginable; it was like a lightning bolt," said Yasser Jibra, a relative of the family.
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