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The surprise bombing of Israel sank the Palestinians back to “hell”

The surprise bombing of Israel sank the Palestinians back to “hell”

Israeli bombs began to fall before dawn, lit the sky with orange flames and crushed the tranquility.

The surprise wave of air attacks sank on the Palestinians back into a nightmare they had hoped they might be behind them.

The bombs collapsed over Gaza, early Tuesday, setting fire to a camp of tents in the south of Khan Younis and flattening a prison led by Hamas.

They hit the Al-Tabaeen shelter in Gaza City, where Majid Nasser was sleeping with his family.

An ambulance carrying victims of an Israeli army strike arrives at Khan Younis hospital
An ambulance carrying victims of an Israeli army strike arrives at Khan Younis Hospital (Mohammad Jahjouh/AP)

“I heard, screaming, my mother and sister screaming, calling on help.

Palestinians tried to remove the bodies from the wreck with empty hands. Parents arrived at hospitals, barefoot, wearing children who were stinging and covered by ash. Streets and hospitals filled with corpses.

Until noon, more than 400 people were killed. It was one of the most deadly days of the 17 -month war, after two months of ceasing fire.

During the armistice that started on January 19, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza returned to their homes, many of them destroyed.

An increase in aid has brought food and medicines, until Israel interrupted the help two weeks ago to press the Hamas militant group to accept a new proposal instead of continuing with the armistice.

A woman cries over the body of a person killed during the air attacks along the Gaza strip
A woman cries over the body of a person killed during the air attacks along the Gaza strip (Jehad alshrafi/AP)

In contrast, the war that killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and caused the large -scale destruction was again with full force.

“What happens to us is hell.

Feda Heriz, a woman relocated to Gaza City, said that the victims were killed in her sleep just before the pre -mass, before the daily Ramadan post.

“Did they set the alarm to wake up for Suoor and wake up to death?

Hamdan feda lost his husband and two children in the strikes of Khan Younis.

The mournful gather around the Palestinian bodies that were killed in Israeli air attacks
Murnators gather around the bodies of Palestinians who have been killed in Israeli air attacks, while being taken to Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP)

The scenes from the hospitals mentioned the first days of the war, when Israel launched a massive bombardment of Gaza in response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

The survivors held a funeral rites in a hurry over dozens of body bags on Tuesday that aligned the courtyard of the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Mothers sighed on the bloody bodies of the children, while the war planes threw over their heads. Doctors endeavored to treat the flow of injured.

“A level of horror and evil that is truly difficult to articulate.

She described the emergency room of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis as chaos, with patients, including children, spread on the floor. Some were still wrapped in the blankets in which they had slept.

People inspect damage to Al-Tabi'in School in the Gaza Strip Center following an Israeli air attack
People inspect damage to Al-Tabi’in School in the Center Gaza Strip following an Israeli air attack (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)

“It was overwhelming, the number of patients,” said Dr. Awad.

At the Al-Attar Clinic in Mawasi in southern Gaza, the medical staff said they were forced to work without emergency ventilation bulbs and devices.

Israel not only blocked all the supplies from entering Gaza two weeks ago, but also cut electricity to the main dealination plant last week.

This has again created waste in medicine, food, fuel and fresh water for over two million people in Gaza.

The new Israeli evacuation orders that cover the eastern flank of the gas near Israel and spread into a key corridor that divided the north and south Gaza sent Palestinians running again.

The spokesman of the military in Arabic in Israel, Avichay Adraee, published a map on X told Palestinians in those areas, including highly populated neighborhoods, to leave immediately and to go to shelters.

“The continuation to stay in the designated areas puts your life and life of your family in danger,” he said.

The exhaust area seemed to include parts of the main North-South road in Gaza, raising questions about how people could travel.

However, the Palestinians gathered the objects and started, hardly knowing where to go.

The spokesman of UNICEF, Rosalia Bollen, recalled that the days before the bombing felt restless. He could feel fear. Children would ask if he believed that war will start again.

“This nightmare scenario was in everyone’s mind,” she said.

“It is only heartbreaking that it materializes at this moment and that it shatters the last piece of hope that people have had.”