A family in Gaza returns home after 15 nightmarish months of displacement

Описание: (28 Jan 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++CLIENTS: RESENDING TO AMEND LOCATION SPELLING TO 'BEIT LAHIYA++'


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Wadi Gaza, Gaza Strip - 27 January 2025
1. Various of Ne’man Abu Jarad, his wife and daughters carrying bags with their belongings and walking to northern Gaza
2. Various of Majida Abu Jarad, wife, walking
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Majida Abu Jarad, displaced from Beit Lahiya, returning home:
“We are very happy, very happy, I mean our joy and our return to our place is unmatched by any joy, more than the joy of success, or a wedding, or the joy of childbirth, or the joy of prosperity, a joy that cannot be described.”
4. Various of Abu Jarad and his daughters walking
5. Various of family waiting on roadside while thousands of Palestinians pass by on their way to northern Gaza
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ne’man Abu Jarad, displaced from Beit Lahiya, returning home:
“An indescribable feeling, a joy that no mind can imagine, a feeling of longing and eagerness to return to our place and our homes after this suffering and torment that we have seen, and the horrors of war, and the pain of loss and destruction that we have seen and heard about.”
7. Various of family seated on roadside
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ne’man Abu Jarad, displaced from Beit Lahiya, returning home:
“Fatigue, suffering and a rough road. The occupation did not leave anything without destroying it. We walked about 3 kilometres, and we need to walk another 6 or 7 kilometres. We might reach Beit Lahiya on foot. I don’t think we will find transportation. We might walk until nightfall. Every so often we take a break, and I feel sorry for my sons and daughters, the children, who continue to walk on the road. Every so often we have to get rid of some of the things we carry in order to continue on our way. We even left the bread and food we brought with us. We got rid of the water because we couldn’t carry it.”
9. Various of Abu Jarad family on roadside
10. Close of Lana, 7, youngest Abu Jarad daughter eating bread
11. Track right of family walking
12. Wide of crowd walking towards northern Gaza

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Exact location unknown, Northern Gaza Strip - 27 January 2025
13. Family putting their belongings into van and getting in
14. Na’em Abu Jarad inside van driving towards Beit Lahiya looking out of window, UPSOUND (Arabic) "That is an area destroyed more than the others”
15. Various of destroyed buildings and people walking on road

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Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip - 27 January 2025
16. Family getting out of van
17. Walking shot of Ne’man Abu Jarad walking and praying, thanking God
18. Wide of Abu Jarad’s daughter running towards family house and rest of family walking
19. Various of Abu Jarad family walking towards house, Ne’man praying, thanking God
20. Various of family arriving outside house, putting their bags on floor and getting on their knees praying
21. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ne’man Abu Jarad, displaced from Beit Lahiya, returning home:
“What was destroyed we will rebuild, we will live our lives with suffering and fatigue again, and we will transfer water from Beit Lahiya to here. We will walk 4 kilometres to bring water. But to see my house in front of me in good condition, praise be to God. My brother's house has three floors destroyed, and it affected my house, but there is a room in good condition that I can stay in.”
22. Mid of Ne’man kissing wall of his house and shifting debris
STORYLINE:

The house itself was a damaged, hollowed-out shell. But it stood.








On Monday, some 200,000 Palestinians made their way back to northern Gaza, many of them on foot.


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