(17 Dec 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rafah, Gaza Strip - 17 December 2023
1. Trail of people following aid truck
2. People on truck throwing boxes of aid to people
3. Boxes thrown onto road, people collecting bottles
4. Wide of people collecting loose items on road
5. Track of people on top of a truck holding sticks, writing on vehicle reading (English/Arabic:) "UAE Aid for those Affected in Gaza"
6. Wide of UAE labelled trucks
7. Pan of truck with aid falling off back, people scrambling to collect items
8. Track of truck with aid being swiped at by people with sticks, boxes crash to road, person narrowly misses boxes falling on roadside, people rush to collect
STORYLINE:
Trucks carrying aid passing through the Gaza Strip's border city Rafah on Sunday was boarded and the aid thrown to crowds on the streets.
People also chased the vehicles and boxes of aid fell from the trucks onto the road.
Some trucks labelled "UAE Aid" had men readily armed with sticks stood atop the vehicles as they passed.
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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