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(22 Dec 2023)
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Salah al-Din Street, Central Gaza Strip - 22 December 2023
1. Various of people carrying their luggage and evacuating from Bureij
2. Various of people using donkey-carts to evacuate
3. Boys carrying bags and evacuating
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hatem Ali, evacuee:
"Evacuate Bureij, well, where do we go? There is not an area left that has not been bombed. Our homes have been bombed. Everyone is fleeing, as you can see. Where do we go? We are unable to live due to the high cost of living, the bombing, the occupation, it did not leave us any corner to sit in, we are destroyed, where do we go? It is enough, have mercy on us, anyone who looks at us with mercy."
5. Various of people carrying luggage and evacuating
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Yehia Hassona, evacuee:
"We were forced to flee and leave the area, for fear that random bombing would occur, and because we had children and women with us, we could bear it and stay, but the children and women would not bear it."
7. Various of smoke rising after Israeli airstrike
STORYLINE:
The Israeli military ordered Palestinians in central Gaza, including Bureij refugee camp and five other neighbourhoods, to evacuate and seek shelter further south in the city of Deir al-Balah.

Later on Friday, hundreds of Palestinians were seen evacuating along Salah al-Din Street - most on foot and a lucky few on donkey-pulled carts.

“Where do we go?” said Hatem Ali, who evacuated from Bureij refugee camp on Friday morning.

The evacuation order came as the death toll of Palestinians in Gaza surpassed 20,000 since October 7, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said.

Over the past month the Israeli army has turned their attention to the south of the territory, including the city of Khan Younis.

The fighting erupted on Oct. 7 when Hamas carried out a surprise attack in southern Israel.

Since then, Israel has unleashed thousands of airstrikes and waged a fierce ground offensive, flattening entire neighborhoods.

AP video shot by Abd Al Kareem Hana
Production by Wafaa Shurafa

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