(5 Nov 2023)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Central Gaza, Gaza Strip - 5 November 2023
1. Man pushing his daughter in wheelchair, evacuating to the south, UPSOUND (Arabic): “Where is the Arab nation? Where are they?”
2. Man pushing daughter in wheelchair, UPSOUND (Arabic): “God is sufficient for us Abu Mazen (Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas)?”
3. People carrying their belongings and evacuating on foot
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) no name given, resident:
"Martyrs lying in the streets, no-one is able to reach them or help them. Civilian people, young and old, raise their hands and walk 500 meters with their hands raised. The Jews have weapons, tanks and planes, and they are watching the citizens. People are walking and facing difficulty. The roads and streets are destroyed."
5. Man carrying his baby and walking
6. People carrying their belongings and walking
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) no name given, resident:
"Until now, there are martyrs under the rubble for more than a month, and no-one is able to rescue them. Where is your humanity?"
8. People evacuating on donkey cart
9. Man pushing man in wheelchair
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) no name given, resident:
"We saw tanks, we saw bodies lying around, we had never seen them before, today we saw blood, we saw the bodies of martyrs decomposing on the ground, we saw tanks, the children saw tanks for the first time, oh world, have mercy on us, have mercy on us."
11. People carrying their belongings and walking
12. Boy carrying his cat
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) no name given, resident:
"People in burned cars, bodies in cars and on the ground, decomposed and dismembered, their identities unknown, and tanks to our left."
14. Various of people carrying their belongings
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) no name given, resident:
"In the beginning, we were in Al-Fakhoura school. They bombed the school above our heads. Today, they threw leaflets at us, and here we are, heading from north to south."
16. Various of evacuees drinking and washing their faces
STORYLINE:
Some Palestinians appeared to have heeded Israeli orders to head to the southern part of the Gaza Strip during a four-hour window on Sunday as intense bombardment rages on in the northern part of the territory.
Crowds of people, including women and children, were seen walking down Gaza’s main north-south highway with only what they could carry in their arms.
Others were filmed leading donkey carts on the road.
One man said they had to walk 500 meters (yards) with their hands raised while passing Israeli troops and tanks on the road.
Another described seeing dead bodies in damaged cars along the road linking northern Gaza to the southern part.
“We saw tanks, we saw bodies lying around, we had never seen them before, today we saw blood, we saw the bodies of martyrs decomposing on the ground,” said one Palestinian, who declined to give his name.
Israeli planes earlier once again dropped leaflets urging people to head south as its forces advance in the outskirts of Gaza City.
The Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war reached 9,700, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, more than 140 Palestinians have been killed in violence and Israeli raids.
More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, most of them in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that started the fighting, and 242 hostages were taken from Israel into Gaza by the militant group.
AP Video shot by Hatem Mousa
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