(7 Jul 2025)
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Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 7 July 2025
1. Various of displaced people carrying empty containers and heading to water point to get water
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Majid Farwana, displaced Palestinian:
"We’re expecting good things. We’re really tired and have suffered and left our homes. Even though it’s destroyed we’d like to clean it up and settle there at ease."
3. Various of displaced people gathering to get water
4. Various of water containers being filled
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahlam Farwana, displaced Palestinian:
"We’re waiting by the minute I swear. We’re suffering when getting water, suffering at charity kitchens, we’re suffering with everything. We’re waiting and asking God to end this suffering and for the end of the war. That’s enough. No more than that. We’re tired."
6. Various of people gathering to fill containers with water
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Abu Awda, displaced Palestinian:
"My situation is like every other displaced person’s situation: eagerly waiting for a truce. Displacement is death and we’re waiting by the second for a truce to take effect. We suffer every day and every moment. We’re suffering every minute as we try to find food, water, tents, and struggling with hot weather. We lack all life’s necessities."
7. Various of tents
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Abu Awda, displaced Palestinian:
"I want to leave and head to anywhere in Beit Hanoun. I could find a place there and set up a tent to stay in and I would breathe in the air around my home, the air of Beit Hanoun where I was raised and lived for 45 years. We’re here homeless. Displacement is not a second life, rather it’s homelessness. Displacement is death. I would rather go home along with everyone else. We hope all displaced people are able to return to their homes."
9. Various of tents
STORYLINE:
Displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip waited for news on Monday on a potential ceasefire in the hopes that they would soon be able to return to their homes.
Israel and Hamas are considering a new U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal that would pause the war, free Israeli hostages and send much-needed aid flooding into Gaza.
It also aims to open broader talks about ending the conflict.
“We’re waiting by the minute I swear,” said Ahlam Farwana, speaking from a displacement camp in Deir al-Balah.
"We’re suffering when getting water, suffering at charity kitchens, we’re suffering with everything."
Mohamed Abu Awda, a displaced Palestinian from Beit Hanoun, said he misses his home so deeply that he would return and set up a tent on the rubble if his house of 45 years had been destroyed.
“We’re here homeless. Displacement is not a second life. It’s homelessness,” he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington Monday to meet U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been pushing for aceasefire that might lead to an end to the 21-month war in Gaza.
Negotiations are ongoing about the plans for a 60-day ceasefire during which Hamas would hand over 10 living and 18 dead hostages, Israeli forces would withdraw to a buffer zone along Gaza’s borders with Israel and Egypt, and significant amounts of aid would flow into the enclave.
AP video shot by: Abdel Kareem Hana,
Production by: Wafaa Shurafa
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