Thousands of children orphaned or separated from parents almost a year on from start of Gaza war

(4 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis , Gaza Strip – 29 September 2024
1. Various of Najah al-Eish, a grandmother of orphans, helping her grandchildren carrying containers of water, children carrying water to their tent
2. Close of bags of bread
3. Various of children waiting to get bags of bread
4. Children carrying bags of bread and walking to their tent
5. Various of orphan children sitting near their grandmother inside the tent
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Najah al-Eish, grandmother of orphans:
”It is true that it was a very difficult year for us. It left me with four orphans. I am now 52 years old. I am afraid for them because of the war and what they are experiencing. No matter how much I care for them and raise them, I will not remain for them, and I have nothing in my power to do for them."
7. Al-Eish crying
8. Various of children playing
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Najah Al-Eish, grandmother of orphans:
”The life of an orphan is very difficult. When they see children with their mothers carrying them, you find them looking at them and sometimes you find tears on their cheeks. This one has a mother. Where is my mother? This one has a father, why don’t I have a father?”
10. Al-Eish sitting with her grandchildren inside tent

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Khan Younis , Gaza Strip – 22 August 2024
11. Various of orphans Amir and Fatima Ashour watching video clips of the bombing of their house, in which they lost their parents and brother
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amir Ashour, orphan who lost his parents in the war:
”In all situations I remember them, in everything I remember them, I am unable to forget them, I did not see them when they were martyred, I did not see them to say goodbye to them.”
13. Various of grandfather Atta Ashour watching videos with his two grandchildren
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amir Ashour, orphan who lost his parents in the war:
”God chooses them and they were martyred, I’m proud that they were martyred. I am satisfied with God’s will, thanks God”
15. Various of orphans Amir and Fatima sitting with their grandfather
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Atta Ashour, grandfather two orphans:
”I constantly find sadness in the eyes of Amir and Fatima. The wound is deep. When I find Amir crying, I realize that he is thinking about his father and his mother and misses them.”
17. Various of eyes of the two children were filled with tears
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Atta Ashour, grandfather two orphans:
”There are things that I am unable to compensate for them. I give them as much affection as I can and provide them with things as much as I can, but the words “Mama and Papa” I am unable to give them, because they miss them. They call us “grandfather and grandmother,” but the words “Mama and Papa” that they hear in the street, I am unable to compensate them with it”
19. Grandfather Atta hugging his two grandchildren
20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Ashour, orphan who lost her parents in the war:
”My mother would comb my hair, dress me, and give me everything, and when I came back from school, she would teach us.”
21. Various of video clips showing a birthday party attended by Amir and Fatima with their parents
22. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Ashour, orphan who lost her parents in the war:
”I miss them and I hope to see them. I miss my mother, my father, and my brother. I miss them all”

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 30 September 2024
23. Various of Amir and Fatima Ashour looking at destruction through the window with their grandfather
STORYLINE:

Amir and Fatima survived the strike and were pulled out from under the rubble by rescuers.

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