(23 Sep 2025)
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Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip – 23 September 2025
1. Various wide of people walking in the market
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Adeeb Abu Khalid, displaced from Gaza City:
“They can recognize (a Palestinian state), 100 states, 50 states, but what matters to us is that the war stops. We want the war to stop. We want to live normally. What’s happening now is abnormal. People are suffering and screaming and have nowhere to sit. We are now living in a real famine. People have been humiliated and have no place to live."
3. Various of children and people walking between tents
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Al-Raei, displaced from Buerij:
“The reality remains the same, my friend. Even if the whole world (recognizes a Palestinian state), the Jews want to eliminate us, we are dying slowly. No one recognizes us.”
5. Various of tents
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Murad Banat, displaced from Bureij:
“We don’t believe anything we hear, it’s all just talk, everyone is watching us like a play. Like a TV series, every day a TV series after a TV series, no one cares about us, we don’t want aid, we’re not dying of hunger, we don’t want food or drink, we want to live like the rest of the world. We want to return to our homes, go to work. We want to live our lives like the rest of the people. What is the children’s fault that they live in humiliation, they don’t go to school, they don’t live a normal life. We don’t find medicine when we go to the doctor, no even in hospitals.”
7. Various of people walking near tents
STORYLINE:
Displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday that recognition of a Palestinian state does not change the difficult reality they are experiencing amid Israel’s ongoing military operations in the embattled enclave.
They emphasized ending the war is what matters to them.
"What matters to us is that the war stops. We want the war to stop. We want to live normally,” said Adeeb Abu Khalid, a man displaced from Gaza City.
Over the weekend, the U.K., Australia and Canada formally recognized a Palestinian state and a number of European countries followed suit, including France.
Another said that “everyone is watching us like a play” and wants his life back to normal.
“Like a TV series, every day a TV series after a TV series, no one cares about us, we don’t want aid, we’re not dying of hunger, we don’t want food or drink, we want to live like the rest of the world," said Murad Banat, a man from Bureij.
It comes as a growing number of experts, including those commissioned by a UN body, have said Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, deepening Israel’s isolation and risking untold damage to the country’s standing even among allies.
The accusation is vehemently denied by Israel, which was established in part as a refuge for Jews after the Holocaust.
Others have rejected it or said only a court can make that determination.
Even so, global outrage over Israel’s wartime conduct has mounted in recent months, as images of starving children emerged, adding to the humanitarian catastrophe of a 23-month war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and laid waste to much of Gaza.
A current offensive in the territory’s largest city further raised concern, with some of Israel’s European allies condemning it.
But the genocide accusation goes further, raising the question of whether a state forged in the aftermath of the crime is now committing it.
They say Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war was itself a genocidal act.
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