(5 Nov 2024)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 5 November 2024
1. Various of people who fled Beit Lahiya carrying their belongings as they arrive at Gaza City
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Samah Ghaben, displaced woman from Beit Lahiya:
"We don’t know where exactly to go, we walk with people, and we are afraid of the bombing. Our lives have become such a tragedy."
3. Various of people from Beit Lahiya carrying their belongings, smoke rising in background
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Huda Abu Laila, woman displaced from Beit Lahiya:
"Here, our feet are bare. We have no sandals, no clothes, nothing. We have no money. We have no money to get us by. There is no food or drink. We ask God, the Arab world and all countries to stand with us out of mercy. We are dead and tired. We are hungry. The hunger has killed us. We were under siege for one month without water, food, drink or anything. We want someone to help us and stand with us."
5. Various of children and women sitting near belongings
6. Displaced people
STORYLINE:
Dozens of displaced Palestinians trickled southwards from war-ravaged northern Gaza on Tuesday.
They recounted how they had hardly eaten in days, with aid long cut off to the area amid Israel’s ongoing military campaign.
The mostly women and children left the northern town of Beit Lahiya, dragging their whatever belongings they managed to save in backpacks and satchels.
"We have no sandals, no clothes, nothing. We have no money. We have no money to get us by. There is no food or drink," said Huda Abu Laila as she entered Gaza City.
"We are hungry… We were under siege for one month without water, food, drink or anything," the gaunt elderly woman added before bursting out in tears.
Israel launched a fresh offensive in northern Gaza in early October, focusing on Jabalia, a densely populated refugee camp where it claimed Hamas had regrouped.
Other areas affected by the new campaign include Beit Lahyia and Beit Hanoun, like Jabaliya situated just north of Gaza City.
As the displaced continued to arrive, Palestinian officials on Tuesday said an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza had killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children.
The strike late on Monday hit a home in Beit Lahiya where several displaced families were sheltering, near the border with Israel.
Israel said it targeted a weapons storage facility from which a militant had operated, and that "numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians."
The dead included eight women and six children, according to a list provided by the Gaza Health Ministry’s emergency service.
The United Nations estimated last week that some 100,000 people remain in northern Gaza and said no aid had reached the far north of the enclave for weeks.
Israel has repeatedly issued evacuation warnings for the entirety of northern Gaza, including Gaza City, where several hundred thousand more Palestinians remain.
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
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