‘The strikes are everywhere’: Palestinians flee south in Gaza but cannot escape bombs

 

 

"“We received a call from the Israeli army to move from this place,” said Khadija, which is not her real name. “Then we went to the centre of the city near to a hospital, thinking that it would protect us.”

That offered no safety either, and the district continued to be heavily bombed. So they made the trip southwards. “That day will be etched on my memory,” Khadija said. “We drove south, and I saw hundreds of people walking under the blazing sun; a woman who just gave birth leaning over her husband and putting their little baby in a box; disabled kids, old people, all on foot.”

The family is now in Khan Younis, with 30 people in a flat, and feeling no safer. “We are still under fire, we are still suffering, still living without the simplest necessities of life. No water, no electricity, no food,” Khadija said. “Please stop the war.”"

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‘The strikes are everywhere’: Palestinians flee south in Gaza but cannot escape bombs | Israel-Hamas war | The Guardian