(19 Dec 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++GRAPHIC: EDIT CONTAINS SHOTS OF DEAD BABIES++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rafah, Gaza Strip - 19 December 2023
1. Various of Suzan Zoghroub, grandmother of a baby and her brother who were killed by an Israeli airstrike during the night, bringing the body of the boy to his injured father in hospital bed to say goodbye to him
2. Various of mother carrying the body of her dead baby girl and crying, father crying, UPSOUND (Arabic) Suzan Zoghroub: "She was just 2 weeks old."
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Suzan Zoghroub, Palestinian woman whose grandchildren were killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike in Rafah:
"They removed us from under the rubble and brought us here (to the hospital). When we woke up, we found the whole house had collapsed over us. The civil defense pulled us out and brought us here. That's all I know, and I don't know anything else except that two of my grandchildren were killed, Ahmed and Princess Aisha, who was just two weeks old, a little bird, and this is (Ahmed) 2 years old. We were sleeping! What else we were doing? What do people do at 2:30 am? We were sleeping."
4. Mahmoud Zoghroub, the injured father, lying in hospital bed, surrounded by his wife and mother carrying his dead child
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Zoghroub, injured man whose children were killed in an Israeli airstrike:
"We were sleeping. We were buried while sleeping. We were buried while we were asleep. Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs (a phrase used to express grief and reliance on God for justice)."
6. Close up of mother's injured face
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Suzan Zoghroub, a Palestinian woman whose grandchildren were killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike in Rafah:
"I just want to send a message to (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, I want to tell him that all my children are sacrifices for the homeland and Palestine, and I am the first among them. Does he think that by killing these children he will achieve something? Have they succeeded now? Has he achieved what he wants? No, he hasn’t achieved what he wants. I will tell you something else, I don’t want anything from the Arabs. We have a saying that goes, 'Nothing scratches your itch like your nails,' Jerusalem is ours and not for anyone else, and we are the ones who will liberate it."
8. Various of woman sitting beside a body, crying
9. Bodies on the ground, people gathering
10. Man checking the body of loved one
11. Various of bodies on the ground, a journalist’s body among them with PRESS written on his vest
12. Various of people preforming funeral prayers, a man crying
13. Various of mourners carrying the bodies inside the cemetery to be buried
14. Various of woman crying
15. Various of relatives burying the bodies, woman crying
STORYLINE:
A strike on a home in Rafah in southern Gaza Strip where families were sheltering killed at least 25 people, including a 2-year-old boy and his newborn sister, whose bodies were brought to two local hospitals early Tuesday.
The children's grandmother Suzan Zoghroub brought the bodies to a hospital bed where their injured father Mahmoud was being treated.
She said the house was hit while they were sleeping and that rescuers helped pull out the dead and the survivors.
“When we woke up, we found the whole house had collapsed over us,” said Zoghroub from the Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah.
AP video shot by Mohammed Jahjouh
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