Gaza - Deir El Beleh casualties - 9 June 2024
According to the Ministry of health, over 270 Palestinians were killed on 8 June and close to 700 others were wounded, some in critical condition. A school was attacked in the same neighborhood two days before, resulting in 40 deaths (including 14 children and 9 women) and 74 others injured. OCHA
Description
STORY: OCHA / GAZA DEIR EL BELEH
TRT: 3:04
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 09 JUNE 2024, DEIR EL BELEH, MIDDLE AREA, GAZA
Shotlist
1. Various shots, wounded children
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mounira, former English teacher and Nuseirat resident:
Yesterday it was a horrible situation, having about around 10:00 in our local time. Again, bombing everywhere. And the air strikes were everywhere. The people were all running in fear and a lot of horrible things are going on the streets.”
3. Various shots, Wounded patients at Al Aqsa hospital in Deir El Beleh, where most injured were taken
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mounira, former English teacher and Nuseirat resident:
“The airstrikes continued for about two hours, more than two hours all over Nuseirat area.”
5. Various shots, Wounded patients
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mounira, former English teacher and Nuseirat resident:
“My heart and even every heart of the people here in Gaza is full of endless sadness. You don't know the miserable situation that we live in since the 7th of October. No electricity, no good water. Our daily needs you cannot even get them.”
7. Various shots, Deir El Beleh market
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mounira, former English teacher and Nuseirat resident:
“I want that all the people know that Palestinians people are against the bloodshed. I myself, I am against the bloodshed. Even in their side, on the Israeli side, on our side, I hate seeing the blood, I hate seeing any people, any person who cries from pain. We have hearts we are human beings. We want peace to be all over the area. I do not want to see a tear from any person, Muslim, Christian or Jew.”
9. Various shots, Deir El Beleh market
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mounira, former English teacher and Nuseirat resident:
“I hope that human person, human leaders will interfere for a cease fire soon. Soon. Because you don’t know the miserable situation that the people live in here in Gaza. Devastating situation. Destruction really. When you see them in tents or even in their houses, there is no hope. They killed everything inside us. No hope, no dream, no thinking about tomorrow. Because there is no safe place here in Gaza. You might be bombed at any moment.”
Storyline
According to the Ministry of health, over 270 Palestinians were killed on 8 June and close to 700 others were wounded, some in critical condition. A school was attacked in the same neighborhood two days before, resulting in 40 deaths (including 14 children and 9 women) and 74 others injured.
In an interview today (9 Jun), Mounira, a former English teacher and resident of Nuseirat described the situation.