(31 Dec 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 31 December 2024
1. Various of displaced family carrying their belongings out of their tent soaked in rainwater
2. Slippers float on the rainwater that flooded the tent
3. Various of tent for displaced people, overwhelmed by rainwater
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Manal Lubbad, displaced woman from Gaza:
"I’m drowning, I’m drowning; me, my tent, and my belongings are all swimming inside the tent. I take everything out to the street."
5. Manal inside tent crying, UPSOUND (Arabic): "God is all I need and he is the best decider of affairs, God is all I need and he is the best decider of affairs."
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Manal Lubbad, displaced woman from Gaza:
"We are dead inside, we are not alive, we are not living; why is this happening?"
7. Various of Manal trying to repair his destroyed tent, with rainwater surrounds it
8. Various of children walking in a pool of rainwater between tents
9. Various of rainwater surrounding tents of displaced people, children walking in muddy rainwater
10. Various of children running next to tents in the rain
11. Various of displaced man standing inside his tent, its roof dripping with rainwater
12. Rainwater drips through roof of the tent
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Muhammad Diab, displaced man from Jabaliya:
"Enough. We are unable to bear it. Find a solution for us. What more are you waiting for? That we all die? Throw nuclear weapons at us so that we will all end up and die, or leave us to live. Find a solution for us, oh presidents, oh world. For God’s sake, find a solution for us. It is enough. You see, how long will we remain in this torment? In the summer there was intense heat and we could bear it, but in the winter we drowning and we were unable to bear it."
14. Rainwater drips through roof of the tent
15. Various of Diab pushing out the rainwater collected in the roof of his tent, rainwater drips through holes in the tent
16. Various of container inside Diab’s tent to collect rainwater falling from the roof
17. Various of displaced man sitting near the fire to warm himself inside his tent
18. Various of displaced people standing next to tents on land soaked in mud and rainwater
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Umm Mansour Jindiya, displaced woman from Gaza city:
"Life is difficult; difficult, difficult. I am 53 years old, and I have never been as tired as I have been last year and this year. We come from good families and once had homes. But they threw us away like this. No one cares about us, and no one even gives us a piece of nylon to cover our tent."
18. Various of child pushing container that filled with rainwater inside the tent
20. Roof of the tent dripping with rainwater
21. Various of rainwater falling into a bowl
22. Various of displaced man pushing rainwater from the roof of his tent
23. Torn tent
24. Displaced man seen from the torn nylon of his tent
25. Various of displaced children with their father sitting inside the tent
26. Close of children
27. Various of displaced people, children walking next to tents near a pool of rainwater
STORYLINE:
Rainfall has inundated tents sheltering displaced families across the war-torn Gaza Strip following a week of heavy rains and strong winds.
Many tents were flooded over the past two days, adding to the misery of 2.3 million people trapped in more than 20 months of war between Hamas and Israel.
Manal Lubbad, a displaced woman from Gaza City, said the rainfall overwhelmed her tent in the central city of Deir al-Balah.
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