Gaza - Khan Younis attacks - 3 April 2025
Description
STORY: OCHA / GAZA KHAN YOUNIS ATTACKS
TRT: 04:04
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 03 APRIL 2025, AL MAWASI, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA
Shotlist
1. Wide shot, OCHA team walking in displacement site
2. Various shots, destruction in displacement site
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Olga Cherevko, OCHA GAZA:
“So, families continue to move from Rafah, from all over Rafah and coming to areas of Khan Younis, Mawasi. And we're talking today to families in this site in Khan Younis, where several hundred families are now living and 160 of them have just arrived without anything. They came under fire. They were being shot at. And I'm standing on a site where a tent was, just yesterday, where a family was living just yesterday. And at 11:00 in the evening, it was hit with a bomb and killed three people a family mother, father and a child and injured eight other children, including one five-year-old girl who lost her leg. The people here have just told me that they've been looking for her leg since the explosion. They haven't found it. Still, the impact this war is having on children is astonishing and abhorrent. These killings must stop and civilians must always be protected.”
4. Close up shot, the photo of the girl, now hospitalized, whose leg was blown off
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Adel, displaced from Rafah:
“We were sleeping in peace, it was calm. The helicopter came in. We were so terrorized we couldn't even hear a sound; everything was on fire. Everything was melting on our little kids. We had to run away. We saw some kids here, some in pieces, some in tears. A woman with her leg cut off. A boy with his legs cut off, another kid with an eye popping out, a little girl whose foot flew off, bleeding.”
6. Wide shot, UN Convoy approaching Tal Al Sultan, finding wrecked UN car on the road
7. Wide shot, UN team walking through displacement site
8. Various shots, destruction in displacement site
9. Close up shot, photo of boy killed in the 2 April evening attack
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Olga Cherevko, OCHA GAZA:
“So, after we finished speaking to the people at the site for the displaced in Khan Younis today, and then went to the different location, which was just a few hundred meters away, we heard a very loud explosion that shook all the walls and the tents around us. And at that point we received a phone call from one of the community members at the original site who told us it had been struck once again and killed three more people, including a child. This is the reality for the people here in Gaza. There's truly no safe place in Gaza.”
Storyline
On 3 April, an OCHA team went to assess a site in Khan Younis for the displaced people. The families shared that the area was struck the previous evening, killing a family and injuring eight children. The same site was struck again just 15 minutes after the OCHA team left, killing another three people, including a child.