(9 Apr 2025)
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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE THE EDIT CONTAINS SHOTS OF DEAD BODIES++
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Gaza City – 9 April 2025
1. Cart carrying wrapped body arriving at hospital
2. Various of people wrapped carrying bodies and placing them on the ground
3. Various of people mourning their killed relatives, people seated next to bodies
4. Man carrying wrapped body of killed child and placing it on the ground
5. Various of man trapped under the rubble, getting help from rescuers before being freed
6. Various of rescue work, people standing on rubble
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Obeid, Shijaiyah neighbourhood resident:
"Suddenly, while we were sitting, we found rockets falling. We didn’t even hear their sound. We went to look at the place. We thought it was a house, but it turned out to be a residential area with more than one house. There was my grandfather’s house and my uncle’s house, and all my relatives. And I have many relatives who were martyred."
8. Various of man mourning his killed relative
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saed Al-Ghoula, Shijaiyah neighbourhood resident:
"We were sitting in the tent when all of a sudden we found two missiles falling, shaking the entire area. Not a single house was left intact, not the sand, stones nor even the people remained. The area we were in had at least 300 to 400 people staying there. We took the people out and they had melted, the people had melted as we were bringing them out."
10. Various of people mourning relatives killed in strike
11. Various of people praying for victims
12. Various of people carrying bodies and leaving
STORYLINE:
Israeli aircraft struck a residential block in war-ravaged northern Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 23 people, health officials said, as the renewed fighting in the devastated Palestinian enclave showed no signs of letting up.
The Al-Ahly hospital said at least 23 people were killed in the strike, including eight women and eight children, figures confirmed by the territory’s Health Ministry.
The strike hit a four-storey building in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood of Gaza City and rescue teams were searching for victims under the rubble, according to the Health Ministry’s emergency service.
"Suddenly, while we were sitting, we found rockets falling. We didn’t even hear their sound," said Mohammad Obeid a Shijaiyah neighbourhood resident.
The civil defence, a rescue group which operates under the Hamas-run government, said other neighbouring buildings were damaged in the strike.
The Israeli military said it struck a senior Hamas militant who it said was behind attacks emanating from Shijaiyah. It did not name him or provide further details.
Israel blames the deaths of civilians on the militant group, because it embeds itself in dense urban areas.
As it ratchets up pressure on Hamas to agree to free hostages, Israel has issued sweeping evacuation orders in parts of Gaza, including for Shijaiyah.
It has imposed a blockade on food, fuel and humanitarian aid that has left civilians facing acute shortages as supplies dwindle. It has pledged to seize large parts of the Palestinian territory and establish a new security corridor through it.
Israel resumed its war against Hamas in Gaza last month after an eight-week ceasefire collapsed.
The ceasefire brought a much-needed reprieve from the fighting to war-weary Palestinians in Gaza and sent an infusion of humanitarian aid to the territory.
Hamas wants the war to end before it frees the remaining 59 hostages it holds, 24 of whom are believed to be alive.
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