(19 Aug 2025)
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Zawaida, Gaza Strip – 19 August 2025
1. Various of vehicles carrying people’s belongings from Gaza City to Zawaida
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Huda Rishe, displaced four times inside Gaza City:
"We are, God willing, optimistic this time that we will reach a truce. But they are talking about a 60-day humanitarian truce, and after they (Israel) take the prisoners, they will strike us again. We will return to Gaza, then leave it again. We have lost hope. We cannot understand things because we do not know what is happening to us.”
3. Various of tents for displaced people
4. Mid of displaced young girl sitting next to pile of her family’s belongings
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maher El Alami, displaced Gaza resident:
"Over the past two years, there has been a different proposal every day, different rhetoric, and we’ve found that all of it has lost its credibility. We hope there will be a proposal, and that the bloodshed, famine, and deaths of children and women will stop. We hope to God that this will happen. But what we see Israel rejecting, is that it doesn’t want to reach solutions or anything else. They want war.”
6. People moving belongings
7. Various of people building tents
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Issa, displaced from Gaza City:
"For 23 months, there has been no one to rely on: not Israel, not Hamas, not the (Palestinian) parties. Arab countries, not even foreign ones, don’t care about us. All we can rely on is God, but regarding optimism, there is no hope at all.”
9. Various of families organising possessions
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Suha Shladan, displaced Gaza resident:
“We hope this is the last offer, we’re so tired. They’ve made six or more offers, and each time we’ve been hopeful, but to no avail. This time, we’re really tired, and we hope they’ll accept the offer so we can go back to our house.”
11. Various of Riham Al Ghamri with her family
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Riham Al Ghamri, displaced from Gaza City:
"We have no choice but to be optimistic and hopeful. We have to be optimistic. We haven’t put down our bags and pitched a tent yet, hoping they’ll tell us there’s a truce. It doesn’t matter if it’s only for 60 days, just to get back, breathe, and feel a little alive. We hope it works.”
13. Close of baby in cot
14. Various of family sitting under tarp
STORYLINE:
Displaced residents of Gaza City are split over a potential ceasefire deal that could allow them to return to their homes.
“We have no choice but to be optimistic and hopeful. We have to be optimistic. We haven’t put down our bags and pitched a tent yet, hoping they’ll tell us there’s a truce,” said Riham Al Ghamri, a mother of three who is displaced from Gaza City.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s only for 60 days, just to get back, breathe, and feel a little alive. We hope it works,” she added.
Muhamed Issa, who has been displaced from Gaza City, disagrees – saying he can not trust any side.
“For 23 months, there has been no one to rely on: not Israel, not Hamas, not the (Palestinian) parties. Arab countries, not even foreign ones, don’t care about us. All we can rely on is God, but regarding optimism, there is no hope at all,” Issa said.
A key mediator on Tuesday stressed the urgency of brokering a ceasefire in Gaza after Hamas showed a “positive response” to a proposal, but Israel has yet to weigh in as its military prepares an offensive on some of the territory’s most populated areas.
Just 20 of the 50 remaining are thought to be alive.
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