Thousands of Palestinians flee after Israel's overnight incursion in Rafah

(7 May 2024)
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Rafah, Gaza Strip - 7 May 2024
1. Various of trucks and cars loaded with personal belongings
2. People walking in the street carrying their belongings
3. Cars passing by loaded with belongings, UPSOUND (Arabic) Raef Abou Labde, displaced Palestinian from Khan Younis:
"Allah is my suffice, and the best deputy"
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Raef Abou Labde, displaced Palestinian from Khan Younis:
"I hope to God that the truce happens. We hope to God that it happens but what I see that Netanyahu doesn't want a ceasefire. He wants to displace the Palestinian people to Sinai, destroy Gaza and occupy it."
5. Cars in the streets
6. Various of people packing their tents
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fadia al Meshal, displaced Palestinian from al-Shati Camp:
"We hope for a truce and a ceasefire, and we can return to our homes safe and sound."
8. Various of people dismantling tents
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nasser al-Sharif, displaced Palestinian from northern Gaza:
"They (Israeli government) will stall like every time. They (Hamas) agreed to the proposal presented by Israel, and they (Israelis) said they will send a delegation. God knows if he (Netanyahu) will send one or not, because he cares less about the world or the U.S."
10. Wide of tent dismantled
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nasser al-Sharif, displaced Palestinian from northern Gaza:
"The poor people (Palestinians) are being displaced from one area to another, and there are no safe zones. There are no safe zones in all of Gaza Strip."
12. Various of people dismantling a tent
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Najwa al-Siksik, displaced Palestinian:
"We are not very optimistic because it has been months and they kept giving us hope and telling us tomorrow or after tomorrow (a truce will take place). And as you can hear (the sounds of drones and blasts) this was happening all night long."
14. al-Siksik and children around their tent
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Najwa al Siksik, displaced Palestinian:
"I don't think it (Israel) will approve (to the deal). (Israel) doesn't care about us or our children. (Israel) only cares about its people. And Netanyahu only cares about being at the top. He doesn't care about the children."
16. Various of smoke after a blast
STORYLINE:
Thousands of Palestinians continued to flee areas in Gaza's southern city of Rafah a day after evacuation orders were dropped by Israeli planes.

Many packed their belongings onto trucks, donkey carts, rickshaw and other vehicles, others dismantled their tents to move elsewhere, fleeing the incursion by Israeli forces into Gaza's southernmost town.

The Israeli evacuation order left Palestinians in Rafah wrestling with having to uproot their families once again for an unknown fate, exhausted after months living in sprawling tent camps or crammed into schools or other shelters in and around the city.

On Tuesday, Israeli tanks seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing as Israel brushed off urgent warnings from close allies and moved into the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remained on a knife’s edge.

Earlier, Israeli forces carried out a flurry of strikes and bombardment across Rafah overnight, killing at least 23 Palestinians, including at least six women and five children, according to hospital records seen by The Associated Press.

The foray came after hours of whiplash in the Israel-Hamas war, with the militant group on Monday saying it accepted an Egyptian-Qatari mediated cease-fire proposal. Israel, however, insisted the deal did not meet its core demands.













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