Surprising air strikes have put the Palestinians in a nightmare they hope may be behind them.
The bomb crashed in Gaza earlier on Tuesday, catching fire on a sprawling tent camp in the southern city of Khan Younis and flattened the Hamas-run prison. They attacked the Al-Tabaeen shelter in Gaza, where Majid Nasser slept with his family.
“I went out to see the explosion happened suddenly in the room next to us,” he said. “I heard screams, my mother and sister screaming, calling me to come, enter the room, and find the children under the rubble.” Everyone was injured, but still alive.
Palestinians tried to grab the body from the wreckage with naked hands. Parents arrive at the hospital, barefoot, with children who are walking and covered in ashes. The streets and hospitals are filled with corpses.
By noon, more than 400 people had been killed. Two months after the ceasefire, it was one of the deadliest days of the 17-month war.
During the truce that began on January 19, thousands of people in Gaza returned home, many of whom were destroyed. A large amount of aid brought food and medicine – until two weeks ago Israel cut off aid to put pressure on Hamas militants to accept the new proposal instead of continuing a truce.
The Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan even provides moments of joy as families hold a shared sunset meal and every day fasting is not worried about bombing.
Instead, the war killed thousands of Palestinians and caused widespread destruction, which was all-out.
“Hell in any sense that we are happening to,” Zeyad Abed said.
Fedaa Heriz, a displaced woman in Gaza, said the victim was killed during sleep before the dawn meal before the daily fast in Ramadan.
“They set up waking Sukhall, they wake up, they don’t wake up?” she screamed.
Fedaa Hamdan lost her husband and two children during Khan Younis’ strike.
“My children died when they were hungry,” she said, while their bodies held funeral prayers.
The hospital’s hospital “feels like the end of the world” scene, recalling the early days of the war, when Israel launched a massive bombing of Gaza on October 7, 2023.
Survivors held a high funeral on Tuesday, surpassing dozens of body bags at the yard of SHIFA Hospital in Gaza. As the fighter plane buzzed over the head, the mother cried on the children’s bleeding bodies. Doctors work hard to treat the injured flow.
“The level of terror and evil is really hard to express, like a great battle.”
She described Khan Younis’ Nasser Hospital emergency room as confusion, with patients, including children, spreading all over the floor. Some are still wrapped in the blankets they have slept with.
Dr. Ismail Awad and the AIDS team with the MSF doctors AIDS team said the clinic injured about 26 injured people, including shrapnel on the neck of a woman who was seven months pregnant. She later died.
“It’s overwhelming, the number of patients,” Awad said.
Medical staff said they were forced to operate without light bulbs and emergency ventilation equipment.
Not only did Israel block all supplies from entering Gaza two weeks ago, it also cut electricity from major seawater desalination plants in the region last week. This once again creates a scarcity of medicine, food, fuel and fresh water for the two million people in Gaza.
Palestinians once again fled the new Israeli evacuation order, covering the eastern side of Gaza next to Israel and extending to a major corridor that sent the northern and southern parts of Gaza to the south, sending Palestinians to escape again.
Israel’s Arabic-speaking military spokesman Avicay Adraee told Palestinians in those areas, including densely populated communities, to leave immediately and head to the shelter.
“Continue to stay in designated areas and put your life and the lives of family members at risk,” he said.
The evacuation zone appears to include part of Gaza’s main north-south roads, raising questions about how people travel. Despite this, the Palestinians collected their property and set out, barely knowing where to go.
UNICEF spokesman Rosalia Bollen recalled that he was upset a few days before the bombing. She could feel the fear. The children would ask her if she believed the war would begin again.
“This nightmare scenario has been in everyone’s mind all the time,” she said. “It’s heartbreaking that it’s happening and it’s breaking the last piece of hope that people have.”
