(18 Jul 2025)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 18 July 2025
1. Young man mourning relative, screaming over body bag
2. Man crying during prayer for the dead
3. Wide of people praying for those killed
4. Various of people carrying bodies and leaving
5. Children in rubble of destroyed house
6. Men looking through rubble
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Belal Abu Sahloul, relative of airstrike victims:
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"They are still under the rubble, we haven’t been able to get them out yet, even in small pieces. The largest piece is this size, the size of the palm of your hand. The largest piece is the size of the palm of your hand, the rest of the pieces are not there."
8. Men looking through rubble
9. Children standing around in rubble
10. Barefoot little girl standing up, rubbing her eyes
STORYLINE:
Dozens gathered at Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip on Friday to mourn the loss of loved ones killed by Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis.
Associated Press footage showed a mother gently caressing the hand of her young daughter, whose body lay partially exposed in a body bag on the floor.
The child was among over a dozen people killed in strikes on tents.
According to figures released by the Gaza’s health ministry, between Oct 2023 and July 15, 2025, 17,948 children have been killed in the war-torn territory.
Outside the hospital, a crowd gathered to perform funeral prayers as at least five bodies were placed in front of them.
One of the overnight Israeli strikes hit a house in Khan Younis, killing at least four members of the Abu Sahloul family.
On Friday morning, relatives and neighbors were combing through the rubble for the remains of their loved ones.
"We haven’t been able to get them out yet, even in small pieces," said relative Belal Abu Sahloul, who dove into the rubble in search of buried family members.
"The largest piece is this size, the size of the palm of your hand."
Another relative, Loai Abu Sahloul, described rushing to find out what had been hit after a missile shook the area, only to find out his cousin’s family home had been the target.
“We’re now looking for the remains of Ahmed Sahloul and his wife and his children, but we can’t find them," he said.
"The Civil Defense crew came to the site, but they don’t have the equipment or resources to pull out the dead children trapped under the rubble.”
Gaza’s health ministry says women and children make up more than half of the more than 58,400 dead in the war.
The ministry, under Gaza’s Hamas-run government, doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count.
The U.N. and other international organizations see its figures as the most reliable statistics on war casualties.
The war erupted following the Hamas led attack in Israel on Oct 2023 when about 1,200 people were killed and 250 were kidnapped.
50 of them remain in captivity in Gaza.
AP video shot by Mariam Dagga
Produced by Wafaa Shurafa
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