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Animal welfare group evacuates 40 animals from Gaza zoo(1/6)

2019-04-08 13:37:17 Ecns.cn Editor :Li Yan

$A sedated lioness is pictured in a cage at a zoo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, during the evacuation by members of the international animal welfare charity \'Four Paws\' of animals from the Palestinian enclave to relocate to sanctuaries in Jordan, on April 7, 2019. Forty animals including five lions are to be rescued from squalid conditions in the Gaza Strip, an animal welfare group said. (Photo/VCG)$

A sedated lioness is pictured in a cage at a zoo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, during the evacuation by members of the international animal welfare charity 'Four Paws' of animals from the Palestinian enclave to relocate to sanctuaries in Jordan, on April 7, 2019. Forty animals including five lions are to be rescued from squalid conditions in the Gaza Strip, an animal welfare group said. (Photo/VCG)

$Members of the international animal welfare charity \'Four Paws\' carry a sedated monkey at a zoo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, during the evacuation by the organisation of animals from the Palestinian enclave to relocate to sanctuaries in Jordan, on April 7, 2019. Forty animals including five lions are to be rescued from squalid conditions in the Gaza Strip, an animal welfare group said. (Photo/VCG)$

Members of the international animal welfare charity 'Four Paws' carry a sedated monkey at a zoo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, during the evacuation by the organisation of animals from the Palestinian enclave to relocate to sanctuaries in Jordan, on April 7, 2019. Forty animals including five lions are to be rescued from squalid conditions in the Gaza Strip, an animal welfare group said. (Photo/VCG)

$A sedated lioness is pictured in a cage at a zoo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, during the evacuation by members of the international animal welfare charity \'Four Paws\' of animals from the Palestinian enclave to relocate to sanctuaries in Jordan, on April 7, 2019. Forty animals including five lions are to be rescued from squalid conditions in the Gaza Strip, an animal welfare group said. (Photo/VCG)$

A sedated lioness is pictured in a cage at a zoo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, during the evacuation by members of the international animal welfare charity 'Four Paws' of animals from the Palestinian enclave to relocate to sanctuaries in Jordan, on April 7, 2019. Forty animals including five lions are to be rescued from squalid conditions in the Gaza Strip, an animal welfare group said. (Photo/VCG)

$A Palestinian worker carries a Heron (Egretta Intermedia) at a zoo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, during the evacuation by members of the international animal welfare charity \'Four Paws\' of animals from the Palestinian enclave to relocate to sanctuaries in Jordan, on April 7, 2019. Forty animals including five lions are to be rescued from squalid conditions in the Gaza Strip, an animal welfare group said. (Photo/VCG)$

A Palestinian worker carries a Heron (Egretta Intermedia) at a zoo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, during the evacuation by members of the international animal welfare charity 'Four Paws' of animals from the Palestinian enclave to relocate to sanctuaries in Jordan, on April 7, 2019. Forty animals including five lions are to be rescued from squalid conditions in the Gaza Strip, an animal welfare group said. (Photo/VCG)

A lion is anesthetized in order to be transported from a zoo in the southern Gaza Strip City of Rafah, on April 6, 2019. International animal welfare organization FOUR PAWS planned to evacuate over 40 animals from a zoo in Rafah. (Xinhua/Khaled Omar)