(16 Apr 2025)
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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE THE EDIT CONTAINS SHOTS OF A DEAD BABY++
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Khan Younis – 16 April 2025
1. Various of injured mother, Shaima Seiam, hugging the body of her 11-month-old daughter, Ahlam Seiam, on hospital bed
2. Various of Ahlam’s grandfather, carrying her body
3. Various of relatives mourning killed baby
4. Various of Ahlam’s uncle carrying her body and leaving emergency department
5. Woman mourning killed baby
6. Various of people praying for killed baby
7. Various of Ahlam’s uncle crying and praying
8. People praying for killed baby
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nashat Seiam, dead baby’s grandfather, displaced resident from Rafah:
"We were sleeping downstairs, and they were in the tent. We heard a hit. I thought it was outside. I ran out to the stairs and found my son coming down and screaming, ‘my daughter and my wife, my daughter and my wife.’ I went upstairs and found her and carried her. Then the young men took her from me. Her mother was injured. We covered her and took her to the hospital. We were sleeping and there was nothing. No resistance. Is this resistance? It is not resistance."
10. Various of people mourning killed baby
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nashat Seiam, dead baby’s grandfather, displaced resident from Rafah:
"What is she? Is she launching rockets? They are asleep, people are asleep. We were displaced, we fled from Rafah to here, then we returned to Rafah, and then we were displaced and death followed us here. Wherever you go, death will catch up with you. There is no escape from it."
12. Various of killed baby’s aunt, Narmin Zo’rob, holding dress of killed baby and crying
13. Various of Zo’rob showing photos of killed baby Ahlam on phone
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Narmin Zo’rob, killed baby’s aunt:
"In a few days, it will be the girl’s birthday. We are not happy about her yet. She is our first granddaughter, the first granddaughter for the family, and we are not happy about her yet. God is sufficient for us. If the world does not wake up today, when will they wake up? Everyday, (there are) massacres. Everyday children (are killed), everyday, (there are) martyrs. Everyday (there are) body parts."
15. Various of destroyed tent where the baby was killed by Israeli airstrike
16. Various of man showing baby’s belongings
17. Various of destroyed tent on the roof of building
STORYLINE:
Lying on a hospital bed in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Wednesday, the young woman hugged the body of her dead baby girl.
Ahlam Seiam was due to celebrate her first birthday later this month but she was killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike as she slept in a tent her parents had built on the roof of a building in the southern Gaza city.
Her grandfather, Nashat Seiam, said they woke up in the early hours of Wednesday to a loud bang when he rushed upstairs to find his son, Mohamed, crying.
Ahlam’s 23-year-old mother, Shaima Seiam, was wounded in the strike. She was taken to Nasser Hospital where her husband also brought the body of their daughter for burial.
"What is she? Is she launching rockets?" the grandfather said. "They are asleep, people are asleep."
"We were displaced, we fled from Rafah to here, then we returned to Rafah, and then we were displaced and death followed us here," he added. "Wherever you go, death will catch up with you. There is no escape from it."
Ahlam was born on April 30 last year and she was the first grandchild in the family, her aunt said.
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