(11 Oct 2023)
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Ashkelon, Israel - 11 October 2023
1. Empty street, UPSOUND of explosions
2. Zoom-out of Veronica and Emi, both Ashkelon residents, trying to get cover, she cries while the sirens start sounding
3. Veronica, Emi and other woman crouched, trying to protect themselves, UPSOUND heavy sound of an explosion and screaming pan to smoke rising
4. Veronica, Emi and others looking at the smoke
5. Woman crying
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Veronica, Ashkelon resident who did not want to be identified using her last name:
"I’m very nervous, for everything that’s happening, because this is not a war, this is a massacre."
7. People looking at the place hit by the strike
8. Part of a rocket
9. Part of wall destroyed
10. Various of destroyed car
11. People looking, standing next to area that was hit
STORYLINE:
Hamas militants have continued to fire rockets at Israel, including a heavy barrage at the southern town of Ashkelon on Wednesday, sending residents to run and look for shelter.
Veronica and her partner Emi, who do not want to be identified by last names, were among those trying to find a safe place when the sirens started sounding.
Veronica started crying, screaming "no no," then an explosion was heard a few seconds later.
A rocket hit Ashkelon destroying part of a wall and damaging a car.
Veronica, Emi and their daughter were getting ready to flee the town and move to Jerusalem to stay with her parents, when the rocket hit Ashkelon.
"This is not a war, this is a massacre" she said while crying.
The war between Israel and the militant group Hamas raged for a fifth day on Wednesday, as Israeli warplanes hammered neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling for safety.
As authorities in Gaza warned that rescue teams were unable to reach many areas, humanitarian groups pleaded for the creation of corridors for the delivery of aid.
The war, which has claimed at least 2,200 lives on both sides, is expected to escalate.
Israel has vowed an unprecedented offensive against Hamas, after the Islamic militant group’s fighters broke through the border fence Saturday and stormed into the country’s south.
Conditions in the coastal enclave, a crowded, 40-kilometer long (25-mile) strip of land that is home to 2.3 million people, were deteriorating quickly Wednesday as entire city blocks were reduced to rubble and residents searched for places to go.
Israel has cut off supplies of food, fuel, electricity and medicine into Gaza, and the sole remaining access from Egypt was shut down Tuesday after airstrikes hit near the border crossing.
Gaza’s power authority said its only power plant has since run out of fuel, leaving the territory without electricity.
AP video by Sam McNeil
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