Children among dead as Israel continues targeting southern city of Rafah in Gaza Strip

(27 Apr 2024)
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Rafah, Gaza Strip - 27 April 2024
1. People gathering near bodies
2. Various of people carrying bodies to ambulance
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Yusuf, relative of victims:
“A house has been targeted. It was occupied by an entire family, a father, a mother and three children. At the time of the targeting, we were stunned that the entire family were martyred. Civil defence teams arrived. These body parts and those martyrs have been recovered and taken to hospital.”
4. People carrying bodies and lying on the ground in the cemetery, people gathering near the bodies
5. Various of women sitting near graves, people gathering
6. Various of people praying for victims
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad Omar, neighbour of victims:
"Surprisingly, about 1:30 am when we were sleeping, we heard the sound of bombing. Everyone rushed and screamed. We heard the sound of screams. We went out to see what happened. Our neighbours had been bombed. This was not the first time. It (the house) was bombed before and they (the neighbours) miraculously survived. This displacement may be the fourth of the fifth for them. God predetermined it and he did what he wanted. They were bombed and we came and pulled out bodies and martyrs, body parts. I don’t know what to say. It’s a tragedy and sad."
8. Various of among rubble of destroyed house
9. Various of children looking through destroyed window
STORYLINE:
An Israeli airstrike early on Saturday killed six people including four children in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, health authorities said.
The strike hit a house in Rafah’s Tel al-Sultan neighbourhood.
The fatalities were taken to the Abu Yousef al-Najjar morgue.
They included a man, his wife and their three sons, aged 8, 10 and 12 years old, according to morgue records.
A neighbour's four-month-old baby-girl was also killed, the records showed.
AP video by Mohammad Jahjouh and Abdal Kareem Hana
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
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