(16 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerusalem – 16 July 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Federman, The Associated Press:
"The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says that 20 people have been killed at one of its food distribution sites in the southern Gaza Strip. The GHF is a new initiative backed by Israel and the United States that hands out food packages to people in Gaza. They say this effort is needed to prevent humanitarian aid from slipping into the hands of Hamas. Since the GHF launched its operations in late May, it says it has handed out millions of meals to people in Gaza."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 15 July 2025
2. Close of pots held by people trying to get food
3. Various of displaced people carrying pots receiving food from charity kitchen
4. Wide of people during food distribution point
5. Woman carrying a pot of lentil soup heading to her tent
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerusalem – 16 July 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Federman, The Associated Press:
"But this operation also has been beset by trouble. Witnesses and health workers in Gaza say that hundreds of Palestinians have been fatally shot while trying to reach these distribution sites. They say the gunfire is coming from nearby Israeli soldiers who protect these hubs. Israel says these numbers are inflated and that its soldiers only fire warning shots when they feel threatened if the crowds move too closely to the forces. However, this latest violence marks the first time that deaths have been reported at a GHF hub. Now, GHF is blaming Hamas for the violence. It says the group sends people in to provoke, to cause panic and provoked a stampede that led to most of these deaths. However, witnesses tell us that GHF’s own contractors fired pepper spray and stun grenades, and that’s what caused the crowd to panic."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 16 July 2025
7. Various of dead on the ground
8. Woman mourning over body of man
9. Various of men praying over wrapped bodies
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerusalem – 16 July 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Federman, The Associated Press:
"This is just the latest violence in a war that is now over 21 months old. Palestinian health officials say that over 58,000 people have been killed in this conflict. Ceasefire efforts are continuing in Qatar between Israel and Hamas, but so far there signs of a breakthrough."
STORYLINE:
Twenty Palestinians were killed at a food distribution center run by an Israeli-backed American organization in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, mostly from being trampled, the group said.
They were the first deaths reported at one of the group’s sites, though hundreds have been killed by Israeli forces on the roads leading to them, according to witnesses and health officials.
Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 54 others, including 11 children, according to hospital officials.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation accused the Hamas militant group of fomenting unrest at the food distribution center, causing the stampede.
For the first time since its operations began in May, “a large number” of people in the crowd were armed with pistols, GHF spokesperson Chapin Fay told reporters.
He said an American medic was stabbed and wounded.
GHF said the Israeli military had warned it on Wednesday that Hamas had infiltrated the crowd, but did not provide evidence for any Hamas presence, aside from a photo of a pistol that it said one of its contractors had confiscated.
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