(7 Aug 2025)
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Zawaida, Central Gaza Strip – 7 August 2025
1. Various of displaced children sitting in the entrance of their family’s tents
2. Various of Maysaa al-Heila, displaced from Al-Burej, sitting with her children in the entrance of her tent
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maysaa al-Heila, displaced from Al-Burej:
"We have heard that they want to occupy Gaza, what is left to occupy? There is nothing left to occupy. There is no Gaza left, there are no buildings left and there are no youths, women or children left. They can take whatever is left. We no longer have the patience or endurance. There is nothing left but dust.”
4. Various of al-Heila’s daughters
5. Mid of Al-Heila with her children
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Samir Yehia, displaced from Rafah:
"We are afraid. We have kids, and we are old people, we are thinking, what is going to happen with this decision? We do not sleep at night, we keep thinking about what will happen next. Are they going to invade Gaza? Are they going to invade Central Gaza? And if they are indeed going to invade Gaza, where should we go? Until when are we going to be like this? There is destruction everywhere.”
7. Various of Yehia speaking with children
8. Various of tents of displaced people
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Farag Abd Rabbu, displaced from Jabaliya:
"As civilians, the suffering presses on. It no longer makes a difference even if they invaded Gaza in its entirety, nothing will change. We are now paying the price, starvation, killings, and displacement. We move from one place to the other. We are desperate and frustrated, and nobody is looking for us.”
10. Various of displaced children outside of their families’ tents
11. Various of tents of displaced people
STORYLINE:
Dejected Palestinians reacted to the possible expansion of Israel’s military operations in Gaza on Thursday with uncertainty, sorrow and pessimism.
"We have heard that they want to occupy Gaza, what is left to occupy?" said Maysaa al-Heila, who is displaced from al-Burej.
"They can take whatever is left. We no longer have the patience or endurance,” she added.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been meeting this week with top advisers and security officials to discuss what his office said are ways to “further achieve Israel’s goals in Gaza” after the breakdown of ceasefire talks last month.
In Gaza, Palestinians who have been struggling to survive airstrikes, shootings and a lack of food, follow the news, uncertain of what the future will be.
Asked about the possible expansion of the Israeli presence in Gaza, Farag Abd Rabbu, displaced from Jabaliya, said that Palestinians have already been suffering tremendously, and will continue to do so regardless of the next political actions.
“It no longer makes a difference even if they invaded Gaza in its entirety, nothing will change," he said.
"We are now paying the price….we are desperate and frustrated,” he added.
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