(17 Dec 2023)
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Rafah, Gaza Strip - 17 December 2023
1. Pan of truck with aid arriving, zoom in as people mount vehicle to collect boxes, driver exits
2. Mid of truck, people running towards aid
3. Wide of truck, cars pull up on right, people rush for aid
4. Various of people collecting aid
5. Empty truck drives away
STORYLINE:
An aid truck is emptied within minutes of arrival in the Gaza Strip on Sunday highlighting the desperate need of people in the besieged region.
The air and ground war has flattened vast swathes of northern Gaza and driven most of the population to the southern part of the territory, where many are packed into crowded shelters and tent camps.
Gaza remained under a communications blackout for a fourth straight day — the longest of several outages over the course of the war, which aid groups say complicate rescue efforts after bombings and make it even more difficult to monitor the war's toll on civilians.
Some three-quarters of the territory’s 2.3 million people have been displaced, in some cases multiple times, since Israel launched its war in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 cross-border attack that left some 1,200 dead.
The offensive has killed more than 18,700 Palestinians, the Health Ministry in the Hamas-run territory said Thursday.
It has not been able to update the toll since then because of the communications blackout, and has said for weeks that thousands more casualties are buried under the rubble.
The ministry does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths, but throughout the war has said that most of those killed were women and children.
AP video shot by Mohammed Jahjouh.
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