(14 Apr 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
South of Wadi Gaza, Central Gaza Strip - 14 April 2024
1. Various of hundreds of displaced people trying to head back to the north on foot and in cars and donkey carts
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anaam Mohammad, displaced from Beit Hanoun:
"We prepared ourselves, and we went out like the other people. We reached the check point, the Jews called out and said: 'The women can cross with the children, they are safe, and the men and young men should return.' The youth did not give women room to cross, so two tanks came and started shooting at them, and a child was wounded, and then the plane came and opened fire and threw gas bombs at us, and people started to run away. People were afraid and could not take the risk and enter a dangerous area."
3. Various of people in Wadi Gaza trying to cross to the north
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amal Sawafiri, displaced from Gaza City:
"We want to return and live a decent life. For six months we have been living in humiliation. We want to return to Gaza. We do not want anything else."
5. Various of people walking back to the south after the Israeli army prevented them from crossing to the north

STORYLINE:
Hundreds of Palestinian families sheltering in central Gaza on Sunday challenged the Israeli military and began a perilous return trip to the isolated northern part of the war-torn strip.

The move comes despite the Israeli military renewed its warning on Sunday morning against the return of displaced people to their homes in northern Gaza, saying that the area remains a war zone.

Associated Press journalists saw dozens of displaced families heading north along the coastal Rashid road, one of the two main thoroughfares linking southern Gaza to its north.

The majority were on their feet, while others took donkey carts.

Later many were seen turning back south after reporting they were prevented from reaching the north by the Israeli army.

Northern Gaza, including Gaza City, was the first target of Israel's invasion of the strip after Hamas’s attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7.

The Israeli military has sealed off the northern half of the strip, and forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to leave their homes in the north and head to Gaza’s southern parts.

AP video by Abd Al Kareem Hana
Production by Wafaa Shurafa

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