Photos of displaced people in Gaza battling stifling heat amid food and water shortages

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Photos of displaced people in Gaza battling stifling heat amid food and water shortages

2025-08-14 19:49 Last Updated At：19:51

Blistering heat deepens suffering for displaced people in Gaza, where thousands are battling shortages of food and water.

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A Palestinian girl carries an empty basin as she runs to a water distribution point during a hot summer day with temperatures reaching 36 °C (97 °F) in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, Palestinian children carry jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A group of Palestinians sit in the shade of their tent amid destroyed buildings on a hot summer day in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinian patients seek relief from the heat by sitting near a fan during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Enaam Al Majdoub uses water collected from a distribution point to bathe her 3-year-old granddaughter, Jourieh, while her son Zaki uses some of the water for cooking in their family tent in Gaza City on Tuesday, August 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A Palestinian patient seeks relief from the heat by sitting near a fan during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinian children buy bags of drinking water during a heat wave in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug, 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Displaced Palestinian Rana Odeh, carries buckets full of water in the next to where she takes shelter in Muwasi, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug, 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, a man sells plastic bags of water for one shekel each, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck during a heat wave at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, a man gives a child water from a plastic bag he has just bought for one shekel, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinians collect drinking water at a desalination plant in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A Palestinian girl pushes a cart loaded with jerrycans of water after collecting it at a camp for displaced people in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck during a heat wave at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, a Palestinian boy carries jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A Palestinian patient sweats during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City where there is no air conditioning, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

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A Palestinian girl carries an empty basin as she runs to a water distribution point during a hot summer day with temperatures reaching 36 °C (97 °F) in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, Palestinian children carry jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A group of Palestinians sit in the shade of their tent amid destroyed buildings on a hot summer day in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinian patients seek relief from the heat by sitting near a fan during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Enaam Al Majdoub uses water collected from a distribution point to bathe her 3-year-old granddaughter, Jourieh, while her son Zaki uses some of the water for cooking in their family tent in Gaza City on Tuesday, August 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A Palestinian patient seeks relief from the heat by sitting near a fan during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinian children buy bags of drinking water during a heat wave in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug, 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Displaced Palestinian Rana Odeh, carries buckets full of water in the next to where she takes shelter in Muwasi, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug, 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, a man sells plastic bags of water for one shekel each, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck during a heat wave at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, a man gives a child water from a plastic bag he has just bought for one shekel, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinians collect drinking water at a desalination plant in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A Palestinian girl pushes a cart loaded with jerrycans of water after collecting it at a camp for displaced people in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck during a heat wave at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, a Palestinian boy carries jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A Palestinian patient sweats during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City where there is no air conditioning, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Man found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in 2001 death of San Francisco Thai grandfather

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 24-year-old man was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of an elderly Thai man whose 2021 killing in San Francisco helped spark a national movement against anti-Asian American violence.

A jury did not find Antoine Watson guilty of murder when it returned a verdict Thursday for the January 2021 attack on 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee. Jurors found Watson guilty on the lesser charges of involuntary manslaughter and assault.

The office of San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins declined to comment, saying that the jury was still empaneled. Jurors will return Jan. 26 to hear arguments on aggravating factors and sentencing will be scheduled once that is completed, the office said in an email.

Vicha Ratanapakdee was out for his usual morning walk in the quiet neighborhood he lived in with his wife, daughter and her family when Watson charged at him and knocked him to the ground. The encounter was captured on a neighbor's security camera. Ratanapakdee died two days later, never regaining consciousness.

His family says he was attacked because of his race, but hate crime charges were not filed and the argument was not raised in trial. Prosecutors have said hate crimes are difficult to prove absent statements by the suspect.

Watson testified on the stand that he was in a haze of confusion and anger at the time of the unprovoked attack, according to KRON-TV. He said he lashed out and didn't know that Ratanapakdee was Asian or elderly.

San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju, whose office defended Watson, extended his sympathies to the victim's family and said the defendant is “fully remorseful for his mistake.”

“While this death was a terrible tragedy and has garnered a lot of press attention, the importance of our legal system is that it gives us a chance to look at the facts in a balanced way,” he said in a statement.

Hundreds of people in five other U.S. cities joined in commemorating the anniversary of Ratanapakdee's death in 2022, all of them seeking justice for Asian Americans who have been harassed, assaulted, and even killed in alarming numbers since the start of the pandemic.

Asians in America have long been subject to prejudice and discrimination, but the attacks escalated sharply after the coronavirus first appeared in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. More than 10,000 hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were reported to the Stop AAPI Hate coalition from March 2020 through September 2021.

The incidents involved shunning, racist taunting and physical assaults.

Photos of displaced people in Gaza battling stifling heat amid food and water shortages

Photos of displaced people in Gaza battling stifling heat amid food and water shortages

A Palestinian girl carries an empty basin as she runs to a water distribution point during a hot summer day with temperatures reaching 36 °C (97 °F) in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, Palestinian children carry jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A group of Palestinians sit in the shade of their tent amid destroyed buildings on a hot summer day in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinian patients seek relief from the heat by sitting near a fan during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Enaam Al Majdoub uses water collected from a distribution point to bathe her 3-year-old granddaughter, Jourieh, while her son Zaki uses some of the water for cooking in their family tent in Gaza City on Tuesday, August 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A Palestinian patient seeks relief from the heat by sitting near a fan during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinian children buy bags of drinking water during a heat wave in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug, 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Displaced Palestinian Rana Odeh, carries buckets full of water in the next to where she takes shelter in Muwasi, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug, 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, a man sells plastic bags of water for one shekel each, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck during a heat wave at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, a man gives a child water from a plastic bag he has just bought for one shekel, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinians collect drinking water at a desalination plant in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A Palestinian girl pushes a cart loaded with jerrycans of water after collecting it at a camp for displaced people in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck during a heat wave at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, a Palestinian boy carries jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A Palestinian patient sweats during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City where there is no air conditioning, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A Palestinian girl carries an empty basin as she runs to a water distribution point during a hot summer day with temperatures reaching 36 °C (97 °F) in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, Palestinian children carry jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A group of Palestinians sit in the shade of their tent amid destroyed buildings on a hot summer day in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinian patients seek relief from the heat by sitting near a fan during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Enaam Al Majdoub uses water collected from a distribution point to bathe her 3-year-old granddaughter, Jourieh, while her son Zaki uses some of the water for cooking in their family tent in Gaza City on Tuesday, August 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A Palestinian patient seeks relief from the heat by sitting near a fan during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinian children buy bags of drinking water during a heat wave in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug, 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Displaced Palestinian Rana Odeh, carries buckets full of water in the next to where she takes shelter in Muwasi, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug, 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, a man sells plastic bags of water for one shekel each, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck during a heat wave at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, a man gives a child water from a plastic bag he has just bought for one shekel, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinians collect drinking water at a desalination plant in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A Palestinian girl pushes a cart loaded with jerrycans of water after collecting it at a camp for displaced people in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck during a heat wave at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the summer heat, a Palestinian boy carries jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A Palestinian patient sweats during a heat wave, inside a warehouse set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City where there is no air conditioning, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

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