(3 Dec 2023)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 3 December 2023
1. Mid of people searching for belongings in rubble after strike
2. Various of damaged buildings
3. People looking through rubble
4. Various of Hanan Arandas, whose home was hit by strike, clearing rubble inside house
5. Close of damaged furniture surrounded by debris
6. Arandas sitting outside house
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hanan Arandas, local resident whose home was hit by strike:
"We were sleeping safely and without a warning we felt a shake. A shell fell over the area and all the houses around were affected including ours. They found around five martyrs here, also the number of injuries was not little. The area is narrow and houses are close to one another. Lots of people were affected in the area."
8. Various of Arandas clearing rubble inside home
9. Pan right of damaged buildings
10. People seen through damaged window
11. Mid of damaged building
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sobhy Abu Hatab, local resident:
"Israel doesn't differentiate between old and young, all is same for them. Let the world see and know that this is a crime, this is not normal, not a normal war. The whole world is silent and watching what is happening to people. God is our only help."
13. Damaged building
14. Various of people searching for belongings in rubble
15. Various of damage
STORYLINE:
Residents searched through the rubble near a destroyed apartment building in Khan Younis on Sunday looking for whatever belongings they could salvage after Israel shifted its offensive to the southern half of Gaza.
Israel's military ordered more areas in and around Gaza's second-largest city to evacuate on Sunday, followed by heavy bombardment, following the shift in the offensive where it asserts that leaders of the Hamas militant group are hiding.
Khan Younis resident, Hanan Arandas, said a strike hit her neighbourhood as she was sleeping and “without a warning”.
"A shell fell over the area and all the houses around were affected including ours," she said, sitting on top of a pile of rubble and broken furniture.
She said five people had been killed and many others injured.
Nearby, a group of men tried to clear the rubble, looking for people who might be trapped underneath.
“Let the world see and know this is a crime,” Sobhy Abu Hatab, a neighbour said.
“The whole world is silent and watching what is happening to people."
Palestinians in Gaza said they were running out of places to go following Israel's shift in its offensive.
The Gaza Strip, bordering Israel and Egypt, is sealed.
Many of the territory’s 2.3 million people are crammed in the south after Israel ordered civilians to leave the north in the early days of the war sparked by the October 7 attack by Hamas and other militants that killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel.
Before the latest evacuation orders, United Nations monitors said the areas told to evacuate made up about one-quarter of the territory.
Heavy bombardment was reported overnight into Sunday around Khan Younis and the southern city of Rafah, as well as parts of the north that had been the focus of Israel's shattering air and ground offensive.
Juliette Toma, director of communications at the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, said nearly 958,000 displaced people were in 99 United Nations facilities in the southern Gaza Strip.
The ministry of health in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Sunday said the death toll in Gaza since the start of the fighting was at 15,523.
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