Gaza- “I bear witness that there is no god but God,” Abu Hassan was repeating it with a heavy tongue, and he began to taste the taste of death. The hidden voice led Umm Hassan to the location of her husband who was stuck under the rubble after a long search, after the occupation blew up their house while they were trapped inside it in the Al-Tawam area in the northern Gaza Strip, after it suddenly advanced. In a military operation announced later.
Umm Hassan Khalaf told Tel Aviv Tribune Net, “My heart jumped out of its place when I heard it, and I kept urging him to be strong and try to breathe.” With her weak hands and the light of the phone lamp that her grandson was carrying, she was able to carry out the most difficult rescue mission that a woman could undertake, not caring about the area being besieged by land. By machinery and by plane, after two continuous hours of digging, Abu Hassan was recovered injured.
Then they all had to flee the spot of death by crossing in front of the tanks. Umm Hassan says, “We went out barefoot, walking on the glass and rubble, then the tanks started firing, so we lay down on the ground and I started pulling my husband by his good hand, because he was unable to push himself due to his injury, until… “We have reached the brink of salvation.”
The Abu Hassan family was forced to leave their home when the occupation army targeted it with bombs, after they had lived there for 7 months. Umm Hassan says, “After the first occupation forces withdrew from the northern Gaza Strip, we repaired one floor of the house and patched the gaps with cement, and when we began to feel some stability, they surprised us with the invasion.” “Again.”
Open the door death
Umm Hassan and 18 people who were trapped in her house managed to escape death “by a miracle,” as they say, but Amna and six other women have remained trapped in Jabalia camp since October 5 at the time of writing this article.
Tel Aviv Tribune Net contacted Amna, who was unable to leave the house because she was responsible for her elderly mother, who was unable to walk. She said, “Opening the door to go out was like certain death, because there were dozens of vehicles that suddenly advanced and were stationed in front of it, so we had no choice but to stay.”
As for their living conditions, Amna fears running out of water, while trying to ration its use and drink it to a minimum, because they do not know when the siege will be lifted.
The torn curtains embroidered with bullets do not prevent the dust of military bulldozers from entering, nor do they block the light of the vehicles, nor do they prevent the passage of shrapnel and stones towards the besieged, but this is the most difficult situation and feeling that Amna goes through with the besieged women gathered in a few meters of a room on the lower floor of the house that The vehicles do not stop hitting him with artillery shells.
“The angels protect us and God strengthens us.” Amna answers Tel Aviv Tribune Net’s question about the source and reason for the serenity she speaks of, and continues, “We do not want the world and we are not clinging to it, and we have nothing to lose more than we have lost.”
Meteor strike
As for the besieged Muhammad Owais, he refused to leave Jabalia camp and move south. He said in his interview with Tel Aviv Tribune Net, “The idea of displacement was not on our mind, because we will not allow the Nakba to be repeated and we will not repeat the tragedy of our ancestors.”
According to Awais’s testimony, the occupation forces advance at night and plant explosive robots loaded with barrels of explosives that move between houses and residential blocks, and are controlled by the occupation army remotely, describing the blown-up areas as “as if they received a meteorite from the sky that fell to the ground.”
He recalls his house in the Al-Faluja neighborhood, which consists of 5 floors, and which was destroyed by bombings. He says, “I recently lived in my house and had not finished paying the installments yet, and when we left, the shells were raining down on us, so we did not carry anything from it.”
Awais and his family moved to another shelter inside the besieged Jabalia, which lacks the minimum necessities of life. The distribution of humanitarian aid in the northern areas of the Gaza Strip stopped three weeks before the start of the military operation, which exacerbated the humanitarian situation of those trapped inside the Israeli siege cordon.
The voice of the trapped
A “tragic situation” was described by journalist Muhammad Al-Sharif to Tel Aviv Tribune Net, while he was at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. He added, “The hospital is within range of Israeli missiles, and it is threatened to stop working at any moment due to the scarcity of fuel and lack of oxygen.”
Al-Sharif explained that the hospital’s medical staff is still present with hundreds of injured people, and that those who were evacuated by the World Health Organization are those with very serious injuries. Al-Sharif pointed out that the famine has reached its worst stages today, as people are content with one meal, “so whoever did not die from a bombing.” He will die of hunger and thirst.”
In response to Tel Aviv Tribune Net’s question about why he remained in the northern Gaza Strip, he said, “The press was created to convey the truth, and if we all left, who would undertake this task?” Al-Sharif also believes that those who remained steadfast in the northern Gaza Strip need someone to spread their voice and suffering to the world, and that the responsibility placed on him is to be the voice of the besieged people who are steadfast in their homes.
Al-Sharif concluded his speech by saying, “I feel negligent, because the scale of the genocide we are subjected to is too great to be documented by journalists who do not exceed the fingers of one hand.”
Annihilation scheme
According to medical sources, the genocide claimed the lives of more than 450 Palestinians within two weeks in the northern Gaza Strip governorate, while the escalation indicates its continuation, after summoning and strengthening Israeli forces, recruiting additional reserve forces, expanding raids, shelling, and random targeting, and cutting off communications and Internet networks.
While Israel seeks to implement an ethnic cleansing plan, which it wants to be in the dark, with the aim of drying up the Palestinian presence in the northern Gaza Strip, and pushing people out of it, more than 100,000 Palestinians besieged in the northern Gaza Strip insist on thwarting it, and are risking death in their homes for its passage.
