(18 Jun 2025)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 17 June 2025
1. People carrying wounded man to Nasser Hospital
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yousef Nofal, witness: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT3++
“Massacre, their bodies cut up, massacre, young children, mothers, massacre. I searched for my brothers and cousins and I did not find any of them. What is this situation we are living in? Have mercy on us.”
3. Wide of man carrying injured person to hospital
4. Mid of young man shouting
5. Various of people crying
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Name not given, mother of killed boy: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT5 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT6&8 AND PARTIALLY BY SHOT9++
“This is not aid. This is an ambush. This is not aid, this is an ambush against the youth, not to feed them, but to kill them. I complain to God about every oppressor and every Arab ruler who did not stand with us and did not stop the war. I ask God to take revenge on them.”
7. Mid of mourners standing and crying
8. Mid of mourners sitting next to bodies and crying
9. People performing funeral prayers
STORYLINE:
At least 51 Palestinians were killed and more than 200 wounded in the Gaza Strip while waiting for U.N. and commercial trucks to enter the territory with desperately needed food, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry and a local hospital.
Palestinian witnesses told The Associated Press that Israeli forces carried out an airstrike on a nearby home before opening fire toward the crowd in the southern city of Khan Younis.
The Israeli military said soldiers had spotted a gathering near an aid truck that was stuck in Khan Younis, near where Israeli forces were operating.
It did not appear to be related to a new Israeli- and U.S.-supported aid delivery network that rolled out last month and has been marred by violence.
Yousef Nofal, an eyewitness, said he saw many people motionless and bleeding on the ground after Israeli forces opened fire.
Palestinians say Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire on crowds trying to reach food distribution points run by a separate U.S. and Israeli-backed aid group since the centers opened last month.
Local health officials say scores have been killed and hundreds wounded.
In those instances, the Israeli military has acknowledged firing warning shots at people it said had approached its forces in a suspicious manner.
U.N. agencies and major aid groups deny there is any major diversion of aid and have rejected the new system, saying it can’t meet the mounting needs in Gaza and that it violates humanitarian principles by allowing Israel to control who has access to aid.
Experts have warned of famine in the territory that is home to some 2 million Palestinians.
Israel’s military campaign since October 2023 has killed over 55,300 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Its count doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants.
Israel launched its campaign aiming to destroy Hamas after the group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, in which militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking another 251 hostage.
The militants still hold 53 hostages, fewer than half of them alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.
AP video by Mariam Daqqa
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