(6 Aug 2025)
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++CLIENTS NOTE: FOOTAGE INCLUDES IMAGES OF DEAD BODIES++
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 6 August 2025
1. Mourners carrying body of a man killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering Gaza through the Zikim crossing
2. Various of boy crying next to body at Shifa Hospital
3. Various of mourners carrying body for funeral prayers
4. Various of mourners praying
5. Mourners carrying body for burial, chanting (Arabic) "There is no God but Allah"
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ala Abu Aker, relative of one of the victims:
"He went to Zikim to help his parents get flour. He was shot in the head and he was martyred. May he rest in peace."
7. People crying over bodies of loved ones
8. Various of mourners praying over bodies laid on ground
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) No name given, relative of victim:
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"My cousin was on his way to get food for his four children. He went out just to bring them food, and next thing we knew, he came back as a martyr. He was vulnerable, not affiliated with Hamas or any group. He was just a humble, ordinary guy."
10. Mourners carrying body for burial, chanting (Arabic) "Martyrs are beloved of God"
11. Various of people transporting a body on a tractor, chanting (Arabic) "God is great"
12. Various of mourners praying as body laid on the ground
13. Various of mourners carrying body for burial
STORYLINE:
Mourners gathered Wednesday around the bodies of several people killed while seeking aid in the northern Gaza Strip, according to relatives and hospital officials.
Some were crying over the bodies of loved ones, cradling their faces one last time before bidding them a final farewell.
A relative of one of the victims said he had left to the Zikim crossing to bring food.
"He went to Zikim to help his parents get flour. He was shot in the head and he was martyred. May he rest in peace," Ala Abu Aker said.
Several hundred Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since May while heading toward food distribution sites, airdropped parcels and aid convoys, according to witnesses, local health officials and the U.N. human rights office.
Israel’s military says it only has fired warning shots and disputes the toll.
Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251 in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that ignited the war.
They still hold 50 hostages, around 20 of them believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefires or other deals.
Israel’s retaliatory military offensive has killed more than 61,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count but says around half the dead have been women and children, is staffed by medical professionals.
The U.N. and other independent experts view its figures as the most reliable casualty count.
Israel has disputed the figures but hasn’t provided its own.
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