Man behind Gaza's World Cup screenings killed in Israeli strike | BBC News — Transcript

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1. 0:00Now, many football fans around the world
2. 0:02have been gathering to watch the World
3. 0:04Cup to support their team or other teams
4. 0:06that they love. Let's show you some
5. 0:08really incredible pictures uh from Gaza.
6. 0:11These are people who have gathered to
7. 0:13watch the match between Egypt and
8. 0:15Argentina that happened on Tuesday. And
9. 0:17as you can see from these pictures,
10. 0:20large crowds have gathered at this very
11. 0:22improvised location uh in the rubble of
12. 0:24buildings to watch the game. But just
13. 0:28hours earlier before the game started,
14. 0:31the man who organized this World Cup
15. 0:33screenings, he helped find these massive
16. 0:35screens uh so that people could watch
17. 0:36the football action. He was killed in an
18. 0:39Israeli strike. The Israeli military
19. 0:42confirmed the strike, saying Muhammad
20. 0:43Al-Wahidi was not the intended target,
21. 0:46that the missile had been aimed at a
22. 0:48terrorist in Hamas's military wing.
23. 0:50Let's speak to our Gaza correspondent,
24. 0:52Rushi Abal, who joins us now. Rushi. Uh
25. 0:55we should point out that it wasn't just
26. 0:57Mr. Alwahidi who was killed in that
27. 0:59strike. Uh I understand that an
28. 1:018-year-old boy, a 10-year-old boy, they
29. 1:03were brothers. They were also killed.
30. 1:05They were coming home from playing
31. 1:07football. Uh so tell us a bit more about
32. 1:10what we are hearing happened. And also
33. 1:12about Muhammad Alahidi.
34. 1:13>> And also about Muhammad Alah.
35. 1:16>> Yeah, it was a multiple strike. They hit
36. 1:19a car first, then they follow the car to
37. 1:21another neighborhood and they hit the
38. 1:23car again where Wahedi and the Hamas
39. 1:27military activists who was as Israel
40. 1:30said participated in the attack of the
41. 1:337th of of October was killed along with
42. 1:35two people. It happened in a very
43. 1:37crowded neighborhood where thousands of
44. 1:40displaced people were sheltering around
45. 1:42the the place where the strike took
46. 1:45place and took the lives of this uh man
47. 1:47who was all the time described as a a
48. 1:50great hero by many of the people in Gaza
49. 1:54who has been helping thousands of people
50. 1:58through the Egyptian
51. 2:00organization or Egyptian committee as
52. 2:02known in in Gaza which is one of the
53. 2:05Egyptianbacked organiz organization that
54. 2:06is providing food, medicine and
55. 2:08sheltering for the the people. His death
56. 2:11was shocking for the society. We have
57. 2:14seen hundreds of people contributing
58. 2:16online in condalancing him and talking
59. 2:19about him, posting his picture and most
60. 2:22important he was killed just before he
61. 2:24was organizing three three main main
62. 2:28screening for the people of Gaza. The
63. 2:31people find this world cup as a little
64. 2:34you know window for a escape from the
65. 2:36hardship. We have seen hundreds maybe
66. 2:39thousands of people are celebrating
67. 2:41gathering in public squares over
68. 2:43destroyed building to support the the
69. 2:46Egyptian team in this h world cup and
70. 2:50the man who organized all of the
71. 2:52screening was was killed before the big
72. 2:55game. He was like, you know, planning to
73. 2:57attend and celebrate with the people.
74. 3:01>> Rushi, how many people have been killed
75. 3:03by Israeli military action since the
76. 3:06ceasefire was brokered back in October?
77. 3:09>> Fire was brokered back in October.
78. 3:11>> Well, over a thousand people well only
79. 3:14yesterday about eight people were
80. 3:15killed. Four in Kenyun and three in Gaza
81. 3:18city, one in the north. This morning
82. 3:20there was another air strike killing two
83. 3:22people. So every day there is people you
84. 3:24know killed in in Gaza and the latest
85. 3:28death of this you know aid worker just
86. 3:30show how like frustrated are people from
87. 3:34the this fragile ceasefire over a
88. 3:36thousand people were killed since
89. 3:39October and people every day they they
90. 3:42woke up in air strikes and you know
91. 3:45explosions Israel is has been expanding
92. 3:48what is called the the yellow line
93. 3:50beyond the h The area were designed
94. 3:53according to the ceasefire was 56% and
95. 3:56now it's close to 70% of the territories
96. 3:59are now under fully Israeli control and
97. 4:02there is people who are living at the
98. 4:04edge of this you know yellow line and
99. 4:06they are suffering from daily Israeli
100. 4:08shooting. Yesterday there was an
101. 4:10incident in Gaza city where a boy who
102. 4:12was six or seven years old was shot by
103. 4:14one of Israeli snipers according to his
104. 4:17family near this yellow line.
105. 4:21Thank you so much for joining us in
106. 4:23Estanbul.