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Pics: Gaza Zookeeper Flees Rafah, Creates Temporary Home For Animals

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The zookeeper fears the animals won’t survive long on their own.

Khan Yunis:

In a cowshed in Gaza’s Khan Yunis, zookeeper Fathi Ahmed Gomaa has created a temporary home for dozens of animals including lions and baboons, having fled with them from Israel’s offensive in Rafah.

A lioness rests in a cage after the animals of the Rafah Zoo were evacuated to a location in Khan Yunis in the Gaza strip.

A lioness rests in a cage after the animals of the Rafah Zoo were evacuated to a location in Khan Yunis in the Gaza strip.

“We’ve moved all the animals we had, except for three big lions that remain (in Rafah)”, he said.

“I ran out of time and couldn’t move them.”

Ahmed abandoned his zoo in Rafah when Israel ordered the evacuation of parts of the southern Gazan city.

A keeper cares for animals of the Rafah Zoo after their evacuation to a location in Khan Yunis.

A keeper cares for animals of the Rafah Zoo after their evacuation to a location in Khan Yunis.

Before the offensive, the city on the border with Egypt had been spared a ground invasion and more than half of the Gaza Strip’s population was sheltering there.

Now, the Israeli offensive has sent more than 800,000 people fleeing from Rafah, according to the UN, with Gomaa and his family among them.

“I am appealing to the Israeli authorities: these animals have no connection to terrorism”, Gomaa told AFP, saying he wanted their help in coordinating with aid agencies to rescue the lions left behind in Rafah.

He fears they won’t survive long on their own.

A lioness rests in a cage after the animals of the Rafah Zoo.

A lioness rests in a cage after the animals of the Rafah Zoo.

“Of course, within a week or 10 days, if we don’t get them out they will die because they’ll be left with no food or water.”

Gomaa said he had already lost several of his animals to the war. “Three lion cubs, five monkeys, a newborn monkey and nine squirrels,” he said.

And while the squawking of parrots fills the air, many of Gomaa’s other birds are no longer with him.

A keeper looks after exotic birds in the Rafah Zoo.

A keeper looks after exotic birds in the Rafah Zoo.

“I released some of the dogs, some of the hawks and eagles, some of the pigeons and some of the ornamental birds. I released a lot of them because we didn’t have cages to transport them.”

In the cowshed, Gomaa is making do with what he has, using improvised fencing to raise the heights of the pens so that their new inhabitants, spotted deer, can’t leap out.

Keeper feeds spotted deers in the Rafah Zoo.

Keeper feeds spotted deer’s in the Rafah Zoo.

Israeli troops began their assault on Rafah on May 7, defying widespread international concern for the safety of the 1.4 million civilians sheltering in the city.

The bloodiest ever Gaza war broke out after Hamas’s unprecedented attack on October 7 resulted in the deaths of more than 1,170 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.

Operatives also took 252 hostages, 121 of whom remain in Gaza, including 37 the army says are dead.

Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 35,800 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)



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Sarkiya Ranen

Sarkiya Ranen

I am an editor for Ny Journals, focusing on business and entrepreneurship. I love uncovering emerging trends and crafting stories that inspire and inform readers about innovative ventures and industry insights.

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