(15 Dec 2024)
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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE THE EDIT CONTAINS SHOTS OF DEAD AND INJURED PEOPLE++
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Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 15 December 2024
1. Various of bodies of civil defense members on the ground inside morgue
2. Various of injured people being transported from civil defense and placed on beds inside emergency department
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kerem Al Dalou, civil defense member:
++NIGHT SHOT++
"We, the Civil Defense, are carrying out humanitarian work like in any country in the world. Why are we being targeted? We do not know, and we have no capabilities. These colleagues who were martyred all yesterday were working, and this morning they were working and did not return to their homes. They were working only to extract the martyrs and children from under the rubble."
4. Civil defense member outside emergency department ++NIGHT SHOT++
5. Various of civil defense members mourning their colleagues
6. Various of civil defense members carrying bodies to ambulance ++NIGHT SHOT++
7. Various of bodies inside ambulance ++NIGHT SHOT++
STORYLINE:
At least three civil defense workers were killed as Israeli forces continued to pound Gaza on Sunday, bringing the Palestinian death toll in the war close to 45,000.
"These colleagues who were martyred all yesterday were working, and this morning they were working and did not return to their homes," said the victims’ colleague Kerem Al Dalou.
A strike hit a work point for Gaza’s civil defense agency in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, Al-Awda Hospital said. Among those killed was the head of the agency in Nuseirat, according to al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital. The civil defense is Gaza’s main rescue agency and operates under the Hamas-run government.
The war in Gaza began after Hamas and other militants from Gaza stormed southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking well over 200 hostage.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed almost 45,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The ministry’s count does not distinguish between combatants and civilians, but it says over half of the dead have been women and children.
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
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