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Displaced Gazans stuck between fear, unknown fate amid Gaza-Israel escalation

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Last updated: 2022/08/07 at 11:43 PM
By Xinhua 3 Min Read
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Palestinian boy stands up on the rubble of a house belonging to Gaza-based Khalifa's family that was destructed by Israeli warplanes on the second day of the Gaza-Israel conflict on Aug. 7, 2022. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
Palestinian boy stands up on the rubble of a house belonging to Gaza-based Khalifa's family that was destructed by Israeli warplanes on the second day of the Gaza-Israel conflict on Aug. 7, 2022. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
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Ignoring her neighbours and journalists who arrived in her area, Nadia Shamalakh, a Gaza-based elderly woman, sits on a plastic chair in front of a hill of what used to be her house.


It is not more than a pile of stones covered in black dust after the Israeli army’s bombardment on Saturday on the west of Gaza city.


“Where will our fate be after today? Shall we remain in the open air for months, or join the list of lost families who have not been able to rebuild their homes until today?” The 67-year-old mother of eight lamented to Xinhua.


“I have never expected that my house would be targeted. Before the airstrike, I was having breakfast with my daughter who is disabled, and suddenly I heard the screaming of our neighbours,” the woman recalled.


“The neighbours asked me to leave the place immediately, and I involuntarily grabbed my disabled daughter’s hand and ran out of our house,” she said.


After only a few minutes, Shamalakh heard a huge explosion and shrapnel scattered everywhere.
“Now, we have turned into newly displaced people, without our house or even a shelter,” she said with a breaking voice.


A few kilometres away from Shamlakh’s house, Ahmed and Mahmoud Khalifa, two brothers in their 20s, gathered with dozens of residents waiting for their house to be targeted by F-35 warplanes, following an alarm made by the Israeli army ordering them to evacuate their house.


While the gathered people were raising their mobile phones to document the bombing, Ahmed Khalifah asked his brother “what will happen to us next?”


“I do not know why they are bombing our house and I have no idea where my family of 16 will live,” the 23-year-old young man told Xinhua.


Mohammed Habboush, one of Khalifa’s neighbours, told Xinhua that “it’s a poor family. They are powerless and have nothing to do with any military factions.”


Both houses of Shamalakh and Khalifa were among the 650 housing units that were targeted in the Israeli airstrikes. Some of them were completely destroyed while the rest were partially damaged, according to the Hamas-run Gaza local authorities.


Just before the Egyptian brokered ceasefire, Gaza Strip, home to more than 2.3 million people, is witnessing for the third day in a row, a military escalation between the Israeli army and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ).


So far, at least 31 Palestinians were killed, and more than 275 others were wounded in the Strip, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.

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