(15 May 2025)
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++CLIENTS: EDIT HAS SHOTS OF COVERED CHILDREN’S BODIES++
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 15 May 2025
1. Various of people praying for victims who where killed in Israeli airstrike
2. Various of people gathering near bodies
3. Various of men carrying bodies of two babies
4. Various of injured mother Safaa Najjar mourning her killed babies, UPSOUND (Arabic):
"Those are my children, my sweethearts. May god have mercy on you, my love"
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Safaa Najjar, mother lost her babies:
"I made dinner for them and they slept normally like on a normal day. Suddenly, the world turned upside-down (meaning that their house was bombed). I didn’t know what happened."
6. Najjar trying and saying in Arabic :"They are children, what did they do wrong?"
7. Injured children, sitting near their mother Safaa inside emergency department
8. Various of people praying for victims
9. Various of people loading bodies onto vehicle
10. Woman crying
11. Vehicle loaded with bodies and people leaving hospital
STORYLINE:
Multiple airstrikes hit Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis overnight into Thursday, killing more than 50 people in a second consecutive night of heavy bombing.
The strikes come as U.S. President Donald Trump visits the Middle East, visiting Gulf states but not Israel.
There had been widespread hope that Trump’s regional visit could usher in a ceasefire deal or renewal of humanitarian aid to Gaza. An Israeli blockade of the territory is now in its third month.
An Associated Press cameraman in Khan Younis counted 10 airstrikes on the city overnight into Thursday, and saw numerous bodies taken to the morgue in the city’s Nasser Hospital.
Some bodies arrived in pieces, with some body bags containing the remains of multiple people.
The hospital’s morgue confirmed 54 people had been killed.
The dead included a journalist working for Qatari television network Al Araby TV, the network announced on social media, saying Hasan Samour had been killed along with 11 members of his family in one of the strikes in Khan Younis.
"Those are my children," said injured mother Safaa Najjar as she mourned her losses.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the strikes.
It was the second night of heavy bombing, after airstrikes Wednesday on northern and southern Gaza killed at least 70 people, including almost two dozen children.
Israel has vowed to escalate the war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed earlier in the week to push ahead with a promised escalation of force in Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip to pursue his aim of destroying the Hamas militant group, which governs Gaza.
In comments released by Netanyahu’s office Tuesday, the prime minister said Israeli forces were days away from entering Gaza “with great strength to complete the mission … It means destroying Hamas.”
International rights group Human Rights Watch said Thursday that Israel’s stated plan of seizing Gaza and displacing hundreds of thousands of people “inches closer to extermination,” and called on the international community to speak out against it.
The war began when Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people in an Oct. 7, 2023 intrusion into southern Israel.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, many of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many were combatants.
Almost 3,000 have been killed since Israel broke a ceasefire on March 18, the ministry said.
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