(20 Aug 2025)
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Zawaida, Gaza Strip – 19 July 2025
1. Various of families organizing possessions
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Suha Shladan, displaced Gaza resident:
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“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.”
3. Various of families in makeshift tent
4. Families organising possessions
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Issa, displaced from Gaza City:
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"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.”
6. People building tents
7. Mid of displaced young girl sitting next to pile of her family’s belongings
STORYLINE:
Displaced residents of Gaza City are split over a potential ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that could allow them to return to their homes.
Muhamed Issa, who has been displaced from Gaza City, said he cannot 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.
The prospect of an expanded assault on areas sheltering hundreds of thousands of civilians has sparked condemnation inside Israel and abroad.
Most war-weary Palestinians see no place in Gaza as safe, not even declared humanitarian zones, after 22 months of war.
Many Israelis, who rallied in the hundreds of thousands on Sunday, fear the offensive will further endanger the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza.
Just 20 of the 50 remaining are thought to be alive.
A senior Israeli official said Tuesday that the country’s position on a ceasefire “is consistent and has not changed.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said a final push is needed to “complete the defeat of Hamas."
He has vowed to continue the war until all the hostages are returned and Hamas has been disarmed.
The Palestinian death toll in the war surpassed 62,000 on Monday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals.
The ministry does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants, but says women and children make up around half of them.
In addition to that toll, other Palestinians have died from malnutrition and starvation, including three reported in the past 24 hours, the ministry said Tuesday.
It says 154 adults have died of malnutrition-related causes since late June, when it began counting such deaths, and 112 children have died of malnutrition-related causes since the war began with the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
AP video by Mohammad Jahjouh
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