Gaza families struggle in crowded Rafah

Описание: (5 Jan 2024)
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Rafah, Gaza Strip - 1 January 2024
1. Various of family cooking on an outdoor stove
HEADLINE: Gaza families struggle in crowded Rafah
ANNOTATION: Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion to eradicate Hamas have pushed almost all Palestinians toward Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah.
2. Various of family eating
ANNOTATION: The area had a prewar population of around 280,000, a figure that has bulged to over 1 million in recent days, according to the U.N.
3. Wide of tents
4. Wide of people walking in refugee camp
ANNOTATION: In nearly every plot of land that stretches west from the city, thousands of nylon tents have sprung up for those without a house to shelter in.
5. Wide of people queuing for water
6. Water being filled into container
ANNOTATION: As the displaced population grows, life in the border city with Egypt becomes more desperate by the hour as they struggle to find food and drinking water.
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Majeda Abu Jarad, displaced person:
“I’m a mother of six girls and maybe that makes it difficult for me to get food or even getting water.”
8. Various of people going to makeshift toilet
ANNOTATION: While they live with fear of injury and death by ongoing airstrikes, the displaced families face a growing threat posed by diseases.
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Majeda Abu Jarad, displaced person:”
My youngest, seven-year-old daughter, and my ten-month-old granddaughter have been sick since we arrived to the tent. They are coughing, having cold symptoms, diarrhoea.”
10. People carrying water
11. Various of people cooking
ANNOTATION: Israel has come under growing international pressure to scale back the offensive in Gaza with the US urging Israel to do more to protect civilians.


STORYLINE:
Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion to eradicate Hamas have pushed almost all Palestinians toward Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah.

The area had a prewar population of around 280,000, a figure that has bulged to over 1 million in recent days, according to the U.N.

In nearly every plot of land that stretches west from the city, thousands of nylon tents have sprung up for those without a house to shelter in.

As the displaced population grows, life in the border city with Egypt becomes more desperate by the hour as they struggle to find food and drinking water.

While they live with fear of injury and death by ongoing airstrikes, the displaced families face a growing threat posed by diseases.

Israel has come under growing international pressure to scale back the offensive in Gaza with the US urging Israel to do more to protect civilians.

AP Video shot by Mohammad Jahjouh

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