Central Gaza Strip – In the central Gaza town of az-Zawayda, neighbors have been working since Sunday morning, recovering the remains of dozens of people who lived in the Nisman family home.
At around 4 a.m. local time (0600 GMT), Israeli military planes bombed the house, completely destroying it.
“This is my uncles’ house,” Fadi Nisman told Tel Aviv Tribune. “My two uncles were with their families, three generations.”
Just a few weeks ago, the extended family fled the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, following Israeli orders to head south of the enclave and took refuge with the Nismans.
But in the Gaza Strip there is no safe place.
Fadi called Sunday’s attack an “atomic bomb.”
“We are recovering body parts from the neighboring lands, a hand here, a head there,” he said.
“We were unable to pull anyone out of the rubble, just the torn bodies that were thrown into the air by the force of the bomb.”
His neighbor, Wael al-Mahanna, said the attack was worse than a powerful earthquake.
“There was no warning from the Israelis – they didn’t call us or text us or tell us to evacuate,” he said, adding that the neighborhood had residents civilians.
“No one in the house survived. There were about 45 people inside,” he said.
“There was a body thrown over one of the posts, and his head was found further up on the roof. No one can even begin to understand what happened.
At least 15 bodies were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, local sources said.
The explosion damaged surrounding houses, devastating the residential block.
As the Israeli offensive against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has continued for 65 days, the death toll has reached a staggering 18,000, including nearly 8,000 children.
More than 48,700 others were injured while 7,780 Palestinians remain missing, apparently dead under the rubble of their homes.
Fadi Nisman said people wanted to end the bloodshed. “We want to put an end to this criminality,” he told Tel Aviv Tribune.
