PERSONAL: "What is their fault?" - Gazan whose family is buried under the rubble

Record ID: 1758853

  • Title: PERSONAL: "What is their fault?" - Gazan whose family is buried under the rubble
  • Date: 25th December 2023
  • Summary: PEOPLE SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS AMID THE RUBBLE VARIOUS OF A PALESTINIAN MAN, IBRAHIM MOHAMMED AL-HAJ YOUSSEF, SEARCHING FOR HIS FAMILY UNDER THE RUBBLE (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) PALESTINIAN MAN WHO LOST HIS WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN, IBRAHIM MOUHAMED AL-HAJ YOUSSEF, SAYING: "After dinner, the strike happened here. I came back to find the house in this condition. I found only one of
  • Embargoed: 8th January 2024 12:38
  • Keywords: Gaza Israel Maghazi Palestinians War airstrike
  • Location: MAGHAZI REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA
  • City: MAGHAZI REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA
  • Country: Palestinian Occupied Territory
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East
  • Reuters ID: LVA002816125122023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:EDITORS NOTE: VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES
    Palestinian man Ibrahim Youssef couldn't locate his family – his wife and four children – after an airstrike hit the house where they were staying in the Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza City on Monday (December 25).
    He was away when he heard the airstrike and hurried back home. Despite managing to save one of his sons, he couldn't rescue the others. His wife and four children, including a four-month-old boy, remain trapped under the rubble with no success in locating them.
    "What is their fault?" Youssef questions. "Were there resistance fighters here?" he adds.
    Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 people in Gaza, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the besieged enclave's deadliest nights of the 11-week-old battle with Hamas.
    Strikes that began hours before midnight persisted into Monday. Residents and Palestinian media said Israel stepped up air and ground shelling against al-Bureij in central Gaza.
    Local residents of central Gaza refugee camps said they had lived one of their worst nights since the war began. Israeli planes and tanks carried out dozens of airstrikes on houses and roads in al-Bureij and nearby al-Nusseirat and al-Maghazi.
    Several residents made pleas on social media for people to afford them shelter as they have become homeless after leaving their homes in Bureij.
    (Production: Doaa Roqaa, Jihed Abidellaoui)
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