Ahmad Abu Rizik has decided to stay in Gaza City despite an Israeli order to evacuate the area ahead of an expected ground invasion by the Israeli Defence Forces are crammed into temporary shelters with up to 30 people to a house and about 100,000 believed to still be in the main cityAhmad Abu Rizik, 26, and 20 members of his family including his two-month-old baby and three-year-old son are staying at his sister’s house in central Gaza City.
“Many Palestinians are living on the streets or in schools that are not prepared as a shelter. There’s no electricity, no food, there’s nothing. So how can I go there, an unknown place, and live on the street with my two babies?” For Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, contact with loved ones in Gaza is reduced to seconds-long frantic phone calls and sporadic WhatsApp messages.
“What we heard yesterday was people moving from the north, they were called and told to leave the building, you have 10 minutes. And they bombarded immediately. The Gaza Strip is bordered by Israel and Egypt, with buffer zones designed to halt the passage of weapons and Hamas militants He listed the families that have died in recent bombardments, saying Sunday was the “bloodiest day since the start of the aggression”.
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 2,778 people and wounded 9,700 others in Gaza, according to the region’s health ministry, while another 1,200 are believed buried under the rubble.
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