Children among dead as Israel continues targeting southern city of Rafah in Gaza Strip

(27 Apr 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++PLEASE IGNORE EDIT SENT EARLIER AND REPLACE WITH FOLLOWING, WHICH ADDS GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF DEAD CHILD WRAPPED IN BURIAL SHROUD BEING KISSED BY RELATIVE IN SHOT 3++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rafah, Gaza Strip - 27 April 2024
1. People gathering near the bodies
2. People carrying bodies to ambulance
3. Relative kissing the face of a baby killed in strike
4. Man carrying body to ambulance
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Yusuf, relative of victims:
“A house has been targeted. This house was occupied by an entire family, a father, a mother and three children. At the time of the targeting, we were stunned that the entire family were martyred, the father, the mother and three children. Civil defence teams arrived. These body parts and those martyrs have been recovered and taken to hospital.”
6. People carrying bodies and lying on the ground in the cemetery, people gathering near the bodies
7. Various of women sitting near graves, people gathering
8. Various of people praying for victims
9. Various of burial of bodies
10. Various of people gathering looking at the bodies being buried
11. Various of people inspecting the rubble of destroyed house
12. Various of children looking through window to destruction
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad Omar, neighbour of victims:
"Surprisingly, about 1:30 am when we were sleeping, we heard the sound of bombing. Everyone rushed and screamed. We heard the sound of screams. We went out to see what happened. Our neighbours had been bombed. This was not the first time. It (the house) was bombed before and they (the neighbours) miraculously survived. This displacement may be the fourth of the fifth for them. God predetermined it and he did what he wanted. They were bombed and we came and pulled out bodies and martyrs, body parts. I don’t know what to say. It’s a tragedy and sad."
14. Various of people removing rubble
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir Al Balah, Central Gaza Strip - 27 April 2024
15. People praying for victims who were killed in Israeli airstrike
16. Various of people carrying bodies to vehicle
STORYLINE:
An Israeli airstrike early on Saturday killed six people including four children in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, health authorities said.
The strike hit a house in Rafah’s Tel al-Sultan neighbourhood.
The fatalities were taken to the Abu Yousef al-Najjar morgue.
They included a man, his wife and their three sons, aged 8, 10 and 12 years old, according to morgue records.
A neighbour's four-month-old baby-girl was also killed, the records showed.
An Associated Press journalist counted the bodies.
Separately, an Israeli strike hit a house in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza overnight, killing at least five people, including three women, hospital officials said.
The dead bodies have been brought to the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital.
An Associated Press journalist at the facility counted the casualties.
AP video by Mohammad Jahjouh and Abdal Kareem Hana
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
===========================================================
Clients are reminded to adhere to all listed restrictions and to check the terms of their licence agreements. For further assistance, please contact the AP Archive on: Tel [phone] Email: [e-mail].
Find out more about AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: / ap_archive
Facebook: / aparchives ​​
Instagram: / apnews
You can license this story through AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...