(26 May 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 19 May 2025
1. Displaced person Ne’man Abu Jarad removing rubble to make room for his tent
2. Various of Abu Jarad and his relatives setting up their tents
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 20 May 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ne’man Abu Jarad, displaced resident:
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"We went out into the unknown, there is no safe place in all of the Gaza Strip, we experienced displacement and the suffering and woes of displacement. Each time you take this decision to leave, it’s like you’re executing yourself by your own hand. Death has become more merciful than leaving the area in which we settled and lived, but for the sake of my children, daughters and wife, I decided that we would walk like other people and we were forced to go out again to Gaza."
4. Various of Abu Jarad's daughters and wife Majida moving their belongings into their tent
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Majida Abu Jarad, displaced resident:
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"Displacement once again has become a very painful matter, because we have missed many things and we are unable to compensate for them, and we have reached a stage where we are unable to return to the house in Beit Hanoun for our belongings."
6. Various of Majida preparing food for her family
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ne’man Abu Jarad, displaced resident:
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“Fear is wherever we go. There is still bombardment in Gaza City. But maybe we can flee death from place to place."
8. Various of Abu Jarad and his daughters filling their containers with water
STORYLINE:
The Abu Jarad family is homeless once again. For the 10th time during Israel’s nearly 20-month campaign in Gaza, they have been forced to uproot themselves and flee. This time was the most painful of all.
It’s a harsh reversal. In January, Ne’man Abu Jarad, his wife and six daughters had a joyous return to their home in northern Gaza during a ceasefire. They dared hope it might be the end of their ordeal after more than a year of fleeing the length of the Gaza Strip and back to escape Israeli offensives.
Weeks later, the bombs started falling again. They tried to hold out, but finally the Abu Jarads had to abandon their home a second time.
“Each time you take this decision to leave, it’s like you’re executing yourself by your own hand,” Abu Jarad said. He spoke in Gaza City, where he and his brothers had set up tents for their families in the rubble-strewn yard of a destroyed apartment building.
The Associated Press have tracked the Abu Jarads’ journeys, telling the story of one family in a territory where nearly the entire population of some 2.3 million Palestinians has been driven from their homes by the war.
The latest wave has accelerated since Israel broke the two-month ceasefire on March 18 and resumed its military campaign, vowing to force Hamas to release hostages it holds.
More than 430,000 people have been on the move since then. More waves are coming as the Israeli military issues further evacuation orders covering more territory in an accelerating assault. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel intends to force the whole population into the far south of Gaza.
This time, the displacement is unfurling under the shadow of famine. Israel blocked all food, fuel, medicine and other all from entering Gaza starting March 2, pushing hundreds of thousands close to starvation. The past week, Israel let in a trickle of supplies, but aid groups say it is far short of what is needed.
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
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