In his apartment in Gaza city, they ate Maqlouba on Friday 5 September, a dish of layers of rice and vegetables, one of the signature dishes From the Palestinian cuisine. Abu Salah Khalil, a 49-year-old Palestinian from Gaza City, told news channel last week Al Jazeera. Although it was their only meal of the day and although they were forced to live with seventeen family members in the apartment on the sixth floor of an apartment building, it seemed to be a somewhat normal day, according to Khalil.
Until the Israeli army announced that it would bomb their residential tower in thirty minutes, writes Al Jazeera. Khalil describes opposite the broadcaster how he wore his disabled father for six floors and lost sight of his children in the chaos. “Buren ran away, there were screams and children were crying.” Once outside, he would have seen how the twelve -storey flat was destroyed in two consecutive attacks. Al Jazeera writes that the family is now living on the street. “My children kept asking: where are we going to sleep? What do we put on the ground?” Says Khalil.
Khalil and his family are among the many thousands of Palestinians that have been displaced by the Israeli siege of Gaza City. More than 6,000 people were hit homeless on Saturday, says the Gazan Ministry of Civil Protection. International press agencies write that the Israeli army has increased the invasion of the largest city in the Gaza Strip. At least forty inhabitants were killed in the genocidal violence in Gaza city, reports the Palestinian health minister.
Palestinians at the remains of a home affected by bombs in a neighborhood on the coast of Gaza City.
Photo Ebrahim Hajjaj /Reuters
A child walks through a tent camp that has been destroyed by an Israeli attack.
Photo Omar al-Qattaa / AFP
Many Palestinians have had to leave their place of residence several times.
Photo Mahmoud Issa/ Retuers
Israel calls on the more than a million Palestinians who are currently staying in Gaza City to leave. The question is where. Israel attacks both the two designated escape routes and the so -called safe zones. On images you can see how thousands of Palestinians try to take the life -threatening route to the south of the Gaza Strip.
That does not apply to everyone. Some of the inhabitants do not have the means to flee, often for the umpteenth time. Palestinians also refuse to leave because they do not believe that it would be safer elsewhere in the heavily damaged Gaza.
Palestinians look at the damage after an attack on a school building of UN aid organization UNRWA.
Ebrahim Hajjaj/ Reuters
After a nightly attack, Palestinians repair their tent.
Photo Dawoud Abu Alkas / Reuters
There is smoke behind a minaret because of a bombing.
Photo Mohammed Saber/ EPA
A rocket falls on a building in which displaced Palestinians are taken care of.
Photo Dawoud Abu Alkas/ Reuters
An attack on a building.
Photo Yousef Al Zanoun/ AP
In total, Israel has already killed more than 64,000 Palestinians in Gaza, reports the Gazan Health Minister.
Photo Haitham Imad/ EPA
Israel does not allow journalists to Gaza. News agency Reuters Communicates via chat messages with the 60-year-old nobility. He lives with his two children in Gaza City. “The explosions have not stopped since yesterday,” he said on Friday. “Many families have left their houses and that is what the occupation wants. With these bombing they tell people:” You leave your area or you die there. “
Earlier this week NRC Via speech reports contact with the 24-year-old doctor Kholoud Jarada. She said that the streets in the west of Gaza city are so busy that you can barely walk on the street. There are tents everywhere and nowhere is drinking water, according to her.
Jarada: “Our daily conversations consist of questions to our friends and family members: what are your plans? What are you going to do? Do you have a place to go? If we stay here, we risk our lives. And if we decide to leave, we have no destination. We know that we cannot even take our essential items with us.”
A man who was injured in a bombing is evacuated.
Photo Yousef Al Zanoun/ AP
Palestinians run for a new attack on Gaza City.
Photo Yousef Al Zanoun/ AP
Displaced Palestinians carry their possessions after an attack.
Photo Omar al-Qattaa / AFP
In the besieged Gaza city, Israel hunks the population. Food is hard to get.
Mahmoud Issa/ Reuters
Not only the continuous bombing make the situation unlivable, but Palestinians also remain deprived of enough food and medical help.
Photo Mahmoud Issa/ Reuters
A ruined residential area in Gaza City.
Photo Dawoud Abu Alkas/ Reuters