(20 Mar 2025)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 20 March 2025
1. Various of 25-day-old baby girl, Ella Abu Dagga, who survived an Israeli airstrike that targeted her home and killed her family
2. Various of women sitting on the ground with baby Ella
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Abu Dagga, Ella’s grandmother:
"(She is) The only survivor, her entire family was martyred: her uncles, her father, her mother and her brother. If you saw her brother, he was (beautiful) like the moon. Like the moon, my beloved Omar. My dear, Omar. May God have mercy on you, grandson."
4. Ella’s grandmother holding her and speaking UPSOUND (Arabic): ‘May God protect her, she is 25 days old"
5. Various of Ella sleeping in her grandmother’s arms
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Abu Dagga, Ella’s grandmother:
"We weren’t living in a truce. We expected things (the war) to return at any moment. We never felt stability at all. We would go to sleep without expecting to make it to the next morning. We know the Jews. We’ve always known the Jews. Since the time of the Prophet (Muhammad), they have been breaching truces. How many treaties did they break with the Prophet and then breach them? Who can deter them? Who will say no to them? Who will stop them?"
7. Various of woman carrying Ella and sitting with her relatives
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nabil Abu Dagga, relative of Ella’s family:
"We were shocked that she was still alive. They were retrieving the adults who were visible, so they heard the sound of the girl crying downstairs. They found her crying and they got her out, thank God. God has protected her."
9. People carrying bodies and placing on the ground
10. Various of people praying for those killed
11. Various of people carrying bodies to bury them
12. Various of people burying bodies
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nabil Abu Dagga, relative of Ella’s family:
"People were sitting, enjoying the nights of (the fasting month of) Ramadan and having suhoor (pre-dawn meal eaten only in Ramadan) together in a family gathering. And it happened at an inappropriate time. The bombing was a surprise to everyone. It was a shock that no one could have imagined. No one could have imagined that a human being could kill another person in this way."
14. Various of destruction of Ella’s home, where her family were killed
STORYLINE:
As rescuers dug through the remains of a collapsed apartment building in Gaza’s Khan Younis on Thursday, they could hear the cries of a baby from underneath the rubble.
Suddenly, calls of “God is great” rang out. A man sprinted away from the wreckage carrying a living infant swaddled in a blanket and handed her to a waiting ambulance crew. The baby girl stirred fitfully as paramedics checked her over.
Her parents and brother were dead in the overnight Israeli airstrike.
“When we asked people, they said she is a month old and she has been under the rubble, since dawn,” said Hazen Attar, a civil defense first responder.
“She had been screaming and then falling silent from time to time until we were able to get her out a short while ago, and thank God she is safe.”
The girl was identified as Ella Osama Abu Dagga. She had been born 25 days earlier, in the midst of a tenuous ceasefire that many Palestinians in Gaza had hoped would mark the end of a war that has devastated the enclave, killed tens of thousands and displaced nearly its entire population.
Only the girl’s grandparents survived the attack. Killed were her brother, mother and father, along with another family that included a father and his seven children.
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