(29 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir alBalah, Gaza Strip 29 June 2024
1. Various of displaced woman bathing her child outside their tents
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Samira Bakroun, displaced from Gaza:
"The tent is a sauna. Do you know how a sauna works? We enter the tent and come out, dripping with sweat. Our sweat does not dry throughout the day. Yesterday, after they had lunch, our children said, 'I wish we had not eaten,' because they sweated a lot and felt hot. We cannot believe when we will get out of it, because it is hot.”
3. Girl carrying bottle of water and entering her family tent
4. Various of woman washing cooking utensils inside tent
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Barawi Bakroun, displaced from Gaza City:
"The heat kills us, kills us, this tent is a grave, death is better than it, it is a grave."
6. Barawi Bakroun, displaced from Gaza City, sitting and putting piece of wet cloth on his head
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Barawi Bakroun, displaced from Gaza City:
"I use it (piece of cloth) because of the heat. I wet it with water and put it on my head. I feel hot and I cannot stand the heat."
8. Various of woman washing clothes in a bucket
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Asmahan Obeid, displaced from Gaza City:
"With a piece of cardboard, we use it as a fan all day to cool ourselves down. We cannot enter the tent. From seven o’clock in the morning, the first thing the flies wake you up, and bite you. You wake up and your sweat is pouring out. There is no water to wash. What is this life? I wish we had died in Gaza (City) and not come to this area."
10. Various of people gathering to fill their containers with water
11. Child carrying bottle and walking
12. Various of people filling their containers with water
13. Various of people walking near tents
STORYLINE:
Palestinians in displacement camps in the Gaza Strip resorted to basic means to cool down themselves and their children amid soaring summer heat on Saturday.

Women were bathing their children outside their tents due to the absence of adequate showers in most of the coastal enclave.

Displaced residents lack air conditioning and fans amid an electricity blackout.

Temperatures are soaring above 32 degrees Celsius (89 Fahrenheit degrees).

Residents in the territory say it is becoming unbearable to stay inside their tents, which are mostly made of nylon.

“The heat killed us, this tent is (like) a grave,” said Barawi Bakroun who shelters in a tent camp in the central city of Deir alBalah.

“Death is better. It’s (the tent) a grave,” he added.

The Palestinian territory has been without electricity since Israel cut off power as part of its war on Gaza following Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7.

Israel also stopped pumping drinking water to the enclave, making living conditions tougher.

The war between Israel and Hamas has killed around 38,000 people and displaced most of Gaza's 2.3 million population, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.

Most of the displaced families shelter in tent camps in the southern part of Gaza amid the conditions.

Israel launched the war after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.

AP video shot by Abd Al Kareem Hana
Production by Wafaa Shurafa

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