News Wrap: At least 40 killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza
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🗓️ 2 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we start the day's other news in the Gaza Strip, where the new year has brought more death and destruction. |
| 0:06.9 | Palestinian health officials say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 40 people today. |
| 0:11.5 | One of those strikes hit a tent camp that Israel has designated as a safe zone. |
| 0:16.1 | Israel says the attack killed two high-ranking members of the Hamas police force. |
| 0:21.0 | Officials on the ground say the death toll was 10 people, including three children. |
| 0:27.0 | As the sun rose on the second day of 2025, Ziyadhabal emerged from his tent in southern |
| 0:33.9 | Gaza's Al-Mawasi camp, still in shock. |
| 0:40.3 | We were sleeping. Everyone was taking shelter in their tents from the cold, |
| 0:44.3 | and suddenly we found the world turning upside down. |
| 0:46.3 | Why and for what? |
| 0:48.3 | Witnesses say the pre-dawn Israeli attack came without warning. |
| 0:52.3 | Some scrambled to put out fires while others carried away the dead and the injured. |
| 0:57.7 | The camp, which Israel had designated as a safe zone, is located by the sea west of Khan Yunus. |
| 1:04.0 | Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have relocated there to ride out the cold and wet Mediterranean |
| 1:09.2 | winter. |
| 1:10.2 | Israel says one of the Hamas policemen killed in today's strike |
| 1:13.6 | helped to gather intelligence to carry out attacks on Israeli troops. |
| 1:17.6 | Where did we find in? Where else? |
| 1:19.6 | But of course hiding in the humanitarian zone in Khan Yunus, |
| 1:23.6 | where garsens are sheltering from this war. But among the dead were three children from one family, |
| 1:32.3 | Ahmed, Muhammad and Abdul Rahman al-Bardawal. |
| 1:35.3 | At their funeral today, each received one final kiss from their mother and father. |
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