(31 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 31 December 2024
1. Various of displaced people walking near tents in street flooded with rainwater
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nour Abu Obaid, displaced from the northern Gaza Strip:
"The year 2024 was one of the worst years for all Palestinian people. It was a year of hunger, displacement, suffering, and poverty. It was one of the worst years for me and for all Palestinian people. I lost my son. My child is 10 years old. I lost him in Muwasi Rafah. They told us it was a safe place, but I lost my son there."
3. Various of camp
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Al-Basiouni, displaced from Beit Hanoun:
"We hope from God that in the year 2025, the war will stop against us, against all people, and against the Palestinian people in particular, and that it will be a good year and people will return to their homes."
5. Various of camp
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Damascus, Syria – 31 December 2024
6. Various of central Damascus
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdulrahman al-Habib, Damascus resident:
“We hope that in the New Year our status will be better, peace and security will prevail and may God support Islam and Muslims, and peace be prevailed in the whole Arab world.”
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abdulhamid, Damascus resident:
“Free Syria is very beautiful. Syria is so beautiful when it is happy and green. The green color will be the color for 2025, I hope as Mahmoud Abdulhamid, as one of the industrialists and the traders in Damascus and Syria, that Syria will be well, and in the new year in Syria will be strong, and free.”
9. Aerial of square
10. View of a news stand with flags in foreground
11. Aerial of Damascus street ++MUTE++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerusalem – 31 December 2024
12. Various of market
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Jacobi, Jerusalem resident:
“My hope for 2025 is that we will truly have peace, not just here in Israel, but in Russia and the Ukraine, and all those other countries, in Syria, in Lebanon, it should be an end off all of this evil terrorism, and that people should wake up and understand that Israel is fighting not just for itself, but for a good world, for a world where we can truly live among each other.”
14. Jerusalem street, and tram
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 31 December 2024
15. People fishing next to ocean
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ghada Jaber, Lebanese citizen:
"My hopes are for peace of course, for peace to spread. Peace and love, of course. But that seems to be distant. It seems that there are more things awaiting us. Everyone wishes for peace in their homes and in their country, and even across the world – not just in one’s country. The tragedies that we have been through are not easy. They are very tough."
17. People gathered on promenade
STORYLINE:
People across the Middle East were on Tuesday giving their reflections for 2024, and their hopes for the new year.
Those in Israel say they are hoping for a more peaceful 2025. The last 2 years have seen wars with Hamas and Hezbollah, and 100 Israeli hostages remain in captivity.
War-weary Pelestinians in Gaza said it was a year of “devastation, killings, displacement” as the war between Hamas and Israel has raged on for more than 20 months.
Lebanese people shared cautious hopes for next year, reflecting on a country still reeling from war with Israel and ongoing crises.
After the fall of President Bashar Assad, Syrians are freely expressing their wishes without fear of censorship after fifty years of Assad’s ruling family.
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