SHOTLIST:

GAZA, PALESTINE (SEPT. 18, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL)

1. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS WALKING AMONG TENTS

2. VARIOUS OF DISPLACED PALESTINIAN, MUNIS AL-BAHTITI BUILDING TENT

3. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED PALESTINIAN, MUNIS AL-BAHTITI SAYING:

"We’ve been forced to move more than six or seven times in more than 25 days. Sometimes we would eat only a little each day.

[...]We kept moving on foot — we couldn’t continue otherwise. There was no transport, no money, no tent; we are the living dead. There is no safety anywhere.


4. VARIOUS OF TENTS/BELONGINGS LEFT AROUND/ PALESTINIANS AMONG TENTS

5. PALESTINIAN GIRL LEYAN AL-BAHTITI PREPARING DOUGH (TWO SHOTS)

6. PALESTINIAN GIRL LEYAN AL-BAHTITI SPEAKING TO REPORTER (Arabic)

7. PALESTINIAN GIRL LEYAN AL-BAHTITI PREPARING DOUGH (TWO SHOTS)

8. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS COOKING IN TENT AND COOKING BREAD

9. VARIOUS OF DISHES PILED

10. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED PALESTINIAN WOMAN NAJWA AL-BAHTITI SAYING:

"Even if there were only a tent in place of our house, we would still return to it."

11. PALESTINIANS AMONG TENTS DESTURCTION/ PALESTINIAN BOY CARRYING WATER/SMOKE RISING IN DISTANCE/ CHILDREN SITTING

12. PALESTINIANS TIDYING ITEMS SCATTERED ON GROUND

13. DISPLACED PALESTINIAN WOMAN WALKING WITH GRANDCHILDREN

14. DISPLACED PALESTINIAN WOMAN SPEAKING TO REPORTER (Arabic)

15. VARIOUS OF ANOTHER PALESTINIAN WOMAN SITTING BY STREET WITH HER CHILDREN

16. CHILDREN AMONG TENTS

17. PALESTINIANS CARRYING BELONGINGS/ HORSE-CART MOVING ON ROAD
GAZA, PALESTINE - SEPT. 18: Palestinians are struggling to survive as Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza unfolds, forcing thousands to flee south under relentless bombardment.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, when Israel launched its military campaign, the 2.3 million residents of Gaza have faced repeated displacement. Families move day and night — some in vehicles, many on foot — along what survivors describe as a “death road.”

Those with resources or good health manage to reach southern cities such as Khan Younis, while others are stranded in the central Gaza Strip.

Munis Al-Bahtiti said he had been forced to move more than six times in just over three weeks. “We are the living dead,” he said. His relative, Najwa, added: “Even if there were only a tent in place of our house, we would still return to it.”

Families trek for hours carrying children, exposed to airstrikes and surveillance drones. Those who reach the south face dire shortages of food, water, and medicine in overcrowded shelters.

The forced exodus, driven by heavy bombardment and repeated evacuation orders, has claimed many civilian lives, leaving survivors with little more than the daily struggle to endure.

Israel has forcibly displaced 270,000 Palestinians from Gaza City toward the south under threat of bombardment and genocide, the Gaza Government Media Office said Saturday.

In a statement, the office said more than 900,000 Palestinians remain in Gaza City and northern areas, refusing to leave despite the ongoing destruction and “crimes of permanent forced displacement.”

“While thousands have fled south due to heavy Israeli airstrikes, at least 22,000 have since returned to Gaza City after moving belongings to the south,” it said, citing the absence of basic necessities there.

The office highlighted that the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis and Rafah, promoted by Israel as a “safe humanitarian zone,” has instead been bombed more than 110 times,
leaving over 2,000 people dead.

It said the area lacks hospitals, infrastructure, clean water, food, housing, electricity, and education, making life “almost impossible.”

According to the office, Israel has allocated just 12% of Gaza’s total area as “shelter zones” while attempting to force over 1.7 million people into them, comparing these to “concentration camps” aimed at depopulating Gaza City and the north.

The office condemned Israel’s actions as “a full-fledged war crime and crime against humanity,” blaming “Israel, its ally the US, and other states supporting the war” for the consequences.

It called on the international community, the UN, and international courts to take “serious and effective measures” to halt the crimes, hold Israeli leaders accountable, and guarantee Palestinians’ right to remain in their land with safety and dignity.

Israel has been waging a devastating genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, killing more than 65,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Reporting by Gulsen Topcu, Adam Bilal, Hani Alshaer / Writing by Ayse Elif Erdis