(21 Dec 2023)
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Rafah, Gaza Strip - 21 December 2023
1. Various of a child and his sister crying, calling for their UPSOUND (Arabic) "Dad, Dad" who was killed after an Israeli air strike hit houses and a mosque in Rafah on Wednesday
2. Various mother with her daughter, crying and touching the body of her husband, UPSOUND (Arabic) mother: "he's freezing"
3. Close of body wrapped in white sheet
4. Child talking to his dead father, UPSOUND (Arabic): "Why have you left us behind? Why, Dad? Why"
5. Close of the mother hugging her daughter, crying
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sanaa al-Daghma, relative:
"He was praying in the mosque, and while he was outside, the bombing occurred, and he was killed, may Allah have mercy on his soul. My sister, her husband, and daughter were in the same area, and they were affected greatly, but it was her husband who was killed."
7. Various of people carrying a body, putting it into car, man crying
8. Various of a man crying near his wife's body,
9. Men sitting near hospital morgue
10. Man mourning his mother, UPSOUND (Arabic) "My mother, she was always good to me."
11. Various of people checking the bodies of their loved ones
12. Man crying
13. Men crying over the body of their mother
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ihab al-Najdi, man who lost his mother in bombing:
"She had returned home before the bombing because she wanted to take my sister to the hospital. When she left my sister and exited the house in a hurry, the bombing targeted the mosque and killed her. Thank God anyway."
15. Mourners carrying a body out of the morgue
STORYLINE:
Bereaved Palestinians gathered at the morgue of Al-Najar Hospital in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, on Thursday to say a final goodbye to their loved ones killed in Israeli bombing in the besieged territory's south.
Among them were two children mourning their father, who was killed after an airstrike hit a mosque in Rafah where he was praying, according to his relatives.
"Why have you left us behind? Why, Dad? Why," the boy cried as his father's body lay on the ground, wrapped in a white sheet.
Rafah, which is in the southern part of Gaza where Israel has told Palestinians to seek shelter, has been repeatedly bombarded in recent days, as Israel has struck what it says are militant targets across the territory, often killing large numbers of civilians.
The air and ground war, launched in response to Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel, has killed nearly 20-thousand Palestinians, displaced some 1.9 million, demolished much of northern Gaza and sparked attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets across the region.
The war began after Hamas and other militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in Israel and abducted 240 others.
AP video shot by Mohammad Jahjouh
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