SHOTLIST

GAZA CITY, GAZA TRIP, PALESTINE (DEC. 12, 2025) (ANADOLU-ACCESS ALL)

1. VARIOUS OF OFFICIAL SPOKESMAN ABDULLAH HAMDAN WALKING TO AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL, CARRYING DEAD CHILD IN HIS ARMS AS OTHERS FOLLOW HIM

2. ABDULLAH HAMDAN SPEAKING (Arabic) TO CAMERA, HOLDING DEAD BABY

3. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ABDULLAH HAMDAN, SAYING:

“When this latest storm hit, water and rain came into our tent. We tried to lift the bedding and throw it outside, wring it out, and keep going. But this child couldn’t withstand the cold and freezing conditions. By around 5 a.m., she couldn’t take it anymore. I was already heading to the hospital, and we entrust our affairs to Allah.”

4. VARIOUS OF HAMDAN HOLDING DEAD CHILD IN HIS ARMS AT HOSPITAL

5. VARIOUS OF MAHMOUD AL-KHAWAJA, GRANDFATHER OF DEAD INFANT TAYM AL-KHAWAJA, CRYING, CARRYING HIS DEAD INFANT UNDER RAIN

6. GRANDFATHER CARRYING DEAD INFANT SPEAKING TO CAMERA AT HOSPITAL YARD

7. GRANDFATHER AL-KHAWAJA WALKING INTO HOSPITAL MORGUE

8. VARIOS OF DEAD INFANT WRAPPED INGREEN SHEET ON TABLE

9. VARIOUS OF MEN STANDING NEXT TO DEAD INFANT, PERFORMING FUNERAL PRAYER

10. GRANDFATHER AL-KHAWAJA WALKING OUT OF MORGUE, CARRYING HIS DEAD GRANDSON IN HIS ARMS

11. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) GRANDFATHER OF TAYM AL-KHAWAJA SAYING:

“This is the second one, the grandson of Mahmoud Al-Khawaja. Yesterday his face turned blue from the cold — completely blue. Our house had been bombed, so we went to another house and decided to stay under plastic sheets. Yesterday everything was blue with cold. We tried to rush him to the hospital. They measured his temperature and found it was between 33 and 34 degrees. Of course, the drop in body temperature affected all of his organs. His blood sugar stopped responding, and the doctors said this led to his death. May Allah protect his name. His name was Taym Mahmoud Al-Khawaja. He was two months and six days old.”

12. AL-KHAWAJA CARRYING DEAD INFANT WRAPPED IN WHITE BURIAL SHROUD, WALKING AWAY FROM MORGUE, GETTING IN CAR GAZA CITY, GAZA TRIP, PALESTINE - DEC. 12: A powerful winter storm driven by a low-pressure system has killed two children and three other Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, as heavy rain, strong winds and freezing temperatures battered displacement shelters and caused walls, homes and tents, many already damaged by Israeli strikes, to collapse, according to medical sources and Civil Defense.

Three Palestinians were killed on Friday in separate incidents caused by storm-related structural collapses. Two brothers, Khader and Khalil Iyhab Hanouna, died when a wall collapsed onto their tent in central Gaza City under the weight of intense rainfall, local sources told Anadolu.

In northern Gaza, Civil Defense teams recovered the body of another Palestinian after a house collapsed in the Beit Lahia area of Jabalia, rescuing two injured children and continuing searches for possible additional victims trapped under the rubble.

Separately, two Palestinian children died from severe cold in their displacement shelters in different parts of Gaza City and were pronounced dead on arrival at Al-Shifa Hospital, according to medical sources.

The first victim, nine-year-old Hadeel Hamdan, had been sheltering with her family in a school converted into a displacement center, where families face harsh conditions and a lack of heating supplies.

The second child, an infant identified as Taym al-Khawaja, died from extreme cold while living with his family in the remains of their home already damaged by Israeli strikes, in the Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City.

The two deaths brought the total number of children who have died from cold exposure since the storm began Wednesday to three after an infant girl, Rahaf Abu Jazar, died Thursday in Khan Younis after her family’s tent flooded with rainwater.

Three buildings also collapsed west of Gaza City on Thursday as heavy rain and flooding continued to hit the enclave.

About 250,000 families are currently living in displacement camps across the Gaza Strip, many facing cold weather and flooding inside fragile tents, according to the Civil Defense.

Although a ceasefire took effect on Oct. 10, living conditions in Gaza have not improved, as Israel continues to impose strict restrictions on the entry of aid trucks, violating the humanitarian protocol of the agreement.

Israel has killed more than 70,000 people, mostly women and children, and injured over 171,000 others in attacks in Gaza since October 2023, which have continued despite the truce.