(21 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir al-Balah, Gaza – 21 August 2025
1. Wide of airstrike
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Kahlout, displaced from northern Gaza Strip:
"They said there is an evacuation in the area, we were only given five minutes. We gathered our belongings, everything we own, our food and drink, and then they bombed the camp. We are civilian people, civilians. We are not terrorists. Where are the Arabs? Where is the Muslim nation? What is our fault, and what is the fault of our children, to be displaced, what is this? This is a camp for civilians, refugees, there is no resistance or anyone."
3. Flames burning after strike
4. Various of people inspecting rubble of their tents, smoke rising
5. Various of displaced women inspecting rubble
6. Girl inspecting destruction
7. People inspecting the rubble of destroyed camp of displaced people
8. Various of people gathered around crater
STORYLINE:
An Associated Press journalist captured the moment when strikes hit Central Gaza on Thursday while Israeli army gets ready to launch an operation to retake Gaza City and other areas.
The attack came after warning calls and a drone-fired missile.
While no casualties were reported, the strike destroyed roughly 100 tents sheltering people who had already fled fighting in other parts of the Strip. A building was also destroyed.
Smoke rose from the targeted area, and fires spread quickly through the makeshift shelters.
Civil defense teams rushed to the site, working to extinguish the flames.
Families, many of them with children, were left sifting through the ashes of what little they had managed to bring with them during earlier evacuations.
On Wednesday, the Israeli military said it plans to call up tens of thousands of reservists for an expanded operation in Gaza City.
Israe’s defense minister approved the plan, which involves deploying 60,000 reservists and extending service for 20,000 more.
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
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