(20 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: MATERIAL CONTAINS IMAGES OF COVERED BODIES AND INJURED PEOPLE++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 20 July 2025
1. Mid of ambulance carrying injured arriving at Shifa hospital, people gathering
2. Wide of people carrying injured into emergency department
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ehab al-Zein, witness:
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"We were waiting for flour because of hunger. We wanted to eat and drink. Suddenly the tanks came out, surrounding us. They started shooting at us and we were unable to move. We could not get the flour and we remained surrounded for about an hour and a half to two hours. Some escaped, some were killed and others were injured. As you can see, this is our situation."
5. Various of people laying covered bodies and sitting next to them
6. People helping injured person down from truck
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nafiz al-Najjar, injured man:
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"I was injured in my ear and hand. Young men were killed right in front of me. There were so many injuries."
8. Close on covered body
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ehab al-Zein, witness:
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"I haven't eaten flour (bread) for 15 days. What should we do? We face death in the hope of getting a kilo of flour. I wish we even succeeded, nothing work out for us. We don't get any flour, instead we die and go back."
10. Wide of people carrying injured person
11. Mid of people mourning their killed relatives
STORYLINE:
At Gaza’s Shifa hospital, ambulances arrived in waves, unloading the wounded and the dead.
Others carried the injured in by hand. Bodies wrapped in shrouds lay on the ground as mourners gathered around them, wailing in grief.
Among the survivors was Ehab al-Zein, who described being ambushed while waiting for flour at the aid site.
“We were waiting for flour because of hunger. We wanted to eat and drink. Suddenly the tanks came out, surrounding us. They started shooting at us and we were unable to move," he said.
"Some escaped, some were killed and others were injured," al-Zein added.
Nafiz al-Najjar, who was injured in the attack, said it was his first time attempting to reach aid through the Zikim route.
"I was injured in my ear and hand. Young men were killed in front of me," he said.
At least 73 people were killed while attempting to access aid at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the health ministry in the Palestinian territory said.
The largest toll was in northern Gaza, where at least 67 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach aid entering northern Gaza through the Zikim crossing with Israel, according to the ministry and local hospitals.
More than 150 people were wounded, with some of them in critical condition, hospitals said.
It wasn't immediately clear whether they were killed by the Israeli army or armed gangs or both. But some witnesses said that the Israeli military shot at the crowd.
The killings in northern... [truncated]
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