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(4 Oct 2024)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 22 August 2024
1. Various of orphans Amir and Fatima Ashour watching video clips of the bombing of their house, in which they lost their parents and brother
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amir Ashour, orphan who lost his parents in the war:
”In all situations I remember them, in everything I remember them, I am unable to forget them, I did not see them when they were martyred, I did not see them to say goodbye to them.
3. Various of video clips showing a birthday party attended by Amir and Fatima with their parents
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Ashour, orphan who lost her parents in the war:
”My mother would comb my hair, dress me, and give me everything, and when I came back from school, she would teach us. I miss them and I hope to see them. I miss my mother, my father, and my brother. I miss them all.”
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 30 September 2024
5. Amir and Fatima Ashour looking at destruction through the window with their grandfather
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 22 August 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Atta Ashour, grandfather two orphans:
”There are things that I am unable to compensate for them. I give them as much affection as I can and provide them with things as much as I can, but the words “Mama and Papa” I am unable to give them, because they miss them. They call us “grandfather and grandmother,” but the words “Mama and Papa” that they hear in the street, I am unable to compensate them with it”
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 30 September 2024
7. Various of Amir and Fatima Ashour looking at destruction through the window with their grandfather
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 29 September 2024
8. Various of Najah al-Eish, a grandmother of orphans, helping her grandchildren carrying containers of water, children carrying water to their tent
9. Various of orphan children sitting near their grandmother inside the tent
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Najah Al-Eish, grandmother of orphans:
”The life of an orphan is very difficult. When they see children with their mothers carrying them, you find them looking at them and sometimes you find tears on their cheeks. This one has a mother. Where is my mother? This one has a father, why don't I have a father?”
11. Various of children playing
12. Al-Eish sitting with her grandchildren inside tent
STORYLINE:
Almost a year of Israel’s war in Gaza left thousands of children either orphaned or separated from their parents, grandparents in the embattled Palestinian enclave had to undertake the heavy task of raising them on their own.
Amir Ashour, 12, and his sister Fatima Ashour, 10, lost their parents and their 5-year-old brother Gheith when their house in Rafah was struck by the Israeli military in December 2023.
Amir and Fatima survived the strike and were pulled out from under the rubble by rescuers.
They are now being taken care of by their grandfather Atta Ashour, from their mother’s side, who said he will never be able to replace their parents.
The fight between Israel and Hamas broke out after the militants attacked southern Israel on Oct.7, 2023, killing around 1,200 Israelis and kidnapping some 250 others
The Israeli army launched a full-scale war across the Gaza Strip since then, killing over 41,000 Palestinians and injuring nearly 97,000 others, according to the Gaza health ministry.
Around 2 million people have been internally displaced, including thousands of children.
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(4 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++SOUNDBITES PART OVERLAID BY CUTAWAYS++
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 22 August 2024
1. Various of orphans Amir and Fatima Ashour watching video clips of the bombing of their house, in which they lost their parents and brother
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amir Ashour, orphan who lost his parents in the war:
”In all situations I remember them, in everything I remember them, I am unable to forget them, I did not see them when they were martyred, I did not see them to say goodbye to them.
3. Various of video clips showing a birthday party attended by Amir and Fatima with their parents
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Ashour, orphan who lost her parents in the war:
”My mother would comb my hair, dress me, and give me everything, and when I came back from school, she would teach us. I miss them and I hope to see them. I miss my mother, my father, and my brother. I miss them all.”
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 30 September 2024
5. Amir and Fatima Ashour looking at destruction through the window with their grandfather
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 22 August 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Atta Ashour, grandfather two orphans:
”There are things that I am unable to compensate for them. I give them as much affection as I can and provide them with things as much as I can, but the words “Mama and Papa” I am unable to give them, because they miss them. They call us “grandfather and grandmother,” but the words “Mama and Papa” that they hear in the street, I am unable to compensate them with it”
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 30 September 2024
7. Various of Amir and Fatima Ashour looking at destruction through the window with their grandfather
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 29 September 2024
8. Various of Najah al-Eish, a grandmother of orphans, helping her grandchildren carrying containers of water, children carrying water to their tent
9. Various of orphan children sitting near their grandmother inside the tent
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Najah Al-Eish, grandmother of orphans:
”The life of an orphan is very difficult. When they see children with their mothers carrying them, you find them looking at them and sometimes you find tears on their cheeks. This one has a mother. Where is my mother? This one has a father, why don't I have a father?”
11. Various of children playing
12. Al-Eish sitting with her grandchildren inside tent
STORYLINE:
Almost a year of Israel’s war in Gaza left thousands of children either orphaned or separated from their parents, grandparents in the embattled Palestinian enclave had to undertake the heavy task of raising them on their own.
Amir Ashour, 12, and his sister Fatima Ashour, 10, lost their parents and their 5-year-old brother Gheith when their house in Rafah was struck by the Israeli military in December 2023.
Amir and Fatima survived the strike and were pulled out from under the rubble by rescuers.
They are now being taken care of by their grandfather Atta Ashour, from their mother’s side, who said he will never be able to replace their parents.
The fight between Israel and Hamas broke out after the militants attacked southern Israel on Oct.7, 2023, killing around 1,200 Israelis and kidnapping some 250 others
The Israeli army launched a full-scale war across the Gaza Strip since then, killing over 41,000 Palestinians and injuring nearly 97,000 others, according to the Gaza health ministry.
Around 2 million people have been internally displaced, including thousands of children.
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