(13 Jul 2025)
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++CLIENTS NOTE: FOOTAGE INCLUDES GRAPHIC IMAGES OF DEAD CHILDREN ++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nuseirat, Central Gaza Strip – 13 July 2025
1. Boy mourning his killed friend
2. Various of people mourning killed children
3. Various of people praying for killed children
4. Various of people carrying bodies of killed children and leaving to bury them
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Zawaida, Central Gaza Strip – 13 July 2025
5. Wide of destruction
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Raafat Fanouna, Zawaida resident:
“There’s no place or even one centimeter in the Gaza Strip – from Rafah in the south to Beit Hanoun in the north – that is safe because of the Israeli aggression, and these strikes and this war. This is a war of ethnic cleansing that (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and his army are doing. There is no safe place.”
7. Various of destruction, people inspecting rubble
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 13 July 2025
8. Various of people gathering near wrapped bodies of their killed relatives
9. Wrapped bodies on groundside out of morgue
10. Various of people praying for victims
11. Various of people mourning their killed relatives
STORYLINE:
Mourners in Central Gaza gathered on Sunday to grieve the deaths of their loved ones, performing funeral prayers and carrying the bodies for burial.
Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 30 people, including six children at a water collection point, local health officials said, despite attempts by mediators to bring about a ceasefire.
In central Gaza, officials at Al-Awda Hospital said it received 10 bodies after an Israeli strike on a water collection point in nearby Nuseirat.
Among the dead were six children, the hospital said.
Ramadan Nassar, a witness who lives in the area, told The Associated Press that around 20 children and 14 adults were lined up Sunday morning to fill up water.
When the strike occurred, everyone ran and some, including those who were severely injured, fell to the ground, he said.
He said Palestinians walk some 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) to fetch water from the area.
The Israeli military said it was targeting a militant but that a technical error made its munition fall “dozens of meters from the target.”
It said the incident was being examined.
In the central town of Zawaida, an Israeli strike on a home killed nine, including two women and three children, officials at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said.
The military said it was unaware of a strike on the home, but has struck over 150 targets over the past 24 hours, including what it said are weapons storage facilities, missile launchers and sniping posts.
Israel blames Hamas for civilian casualties because the militant group operates out of populated areas.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Sunday that more than 58,000 people have been killed in the war.
The ministry doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count but says more than half of the dead are women and children.
In the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war, Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people and abducted 251 in Israel, 50 of them still remain captives in Gaza.
An AP video of the aftermath of the strike in central Gaza in Zawaida showed scattered debris, trash and blankets, rubble, and a partially collapsed building.
AP video by Abdel Kareem Hana
AP production by Wafaa Shurafa
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