(20 Dec 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 19 December 2023
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Pan of man carrying a boy from ambulance to hospital
2. Various of distressed injured woman crying while being helped off ambulance
3. Pan of injured man entering hospital
4. Man carrying a crying boy (red clothes)
5. Woman wearing black clothes (mother of boy in red) being carried on a stretcher to the hospital
6. Boy (in red) being comforted
7. Various of boy next to his injured mother, crying and screaming "Mom, mom", mother placing boy on herself on stretcher, comforting him
8. Pan of injured woman on a stretcher being carried to hospital
9. Health worker carrying a child to hospital
10. Child being checked by a doctor
11. Child in the arms of another child
12. Girl being taken to hospital
13. Girl and boy on a stretcher inside hospital
14. Close of blood on a stretcher
15. Pan of men carrying an injured man on a stretcher from ambulance to hospital
STORYLINE:
Women and children were among the injured arriving at Nasser Hospital Tuesday night after strikes hit Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.
Health workers rushed to treat the wounded while in the emergency room, a child cries next to his injured mother lying on a stretcher.
The chaotic scene inside the hospital became routine in most of the health units in the enclave.
Residents of Khan Younis reported heavy bombardment and gunbattle between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants. They said the fighting concentrated in the city’s central and eastern areas.
In southern Gaza, an overnight Israeli strike destroyed a house in the Sahboura refugee camp in Rafah, killing at least one person, according to the Interior Ministry.
Israel’s intense bombardment also hit Jabaliya refugee camp, killing at least 20 people Wednesday morning, a senior health official in Hamas-controlled Gaza said.
Munri al-Bursh, general director of the health ministry, said at least 25 others were wounded, and all casualties were taken to Jabaliya Medical Center.
More than 19,400 Palestinians have been killed since Israel declared war on Hamas, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza, which does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths.
Thousands more lie buried under the rubble of Gaza, the U.N. estimates.
Israel says 127 of its soldiers have died in its ground offensive after Hamas raided southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and taking about 240 hostages, dozens of them released during a one-week ceasefire last month.
Meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council has delayed voting on an Arab-sponsored resolution for an urgent cessation of hostilities in Gaza and the release of all Israeli hostages held by Palestinian militants.
The vote was pushed back to try to avoid another veto by the United States, Israel’s closest ally. The 10-week-old war has transformed much of the north of Gaza into a moonscape. Nearly 85% of Gaza’s population have fled their homes.
U.S. and Israeli intelligence chiefs met with Qatar’s prime minister in Poland to broker the release of more hostages, the first known meeting of the three since a weeklong cease-fire ended in late November.
AP video shot by Amro Tabash
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