By whatever means at their disposal, on foot, in horse-drawn carts and hitched to the sides of suffocating trucks, Palestinians who fled to the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday to escape Israeli airstrikes described the fear, the hopelessness and bitter sense of abandonment they experience.
“Nowhere in Gaza is safe. My son was injured and there was not a single hospital where I could take him to get stitches,” displaced Palestinian Ahmed Al Kahlut said, according to Al Arabiya. “There is no water, there is not even salt water with which we can wash our hands,” he added.
He had been forced to leave his home in search of basic necessities for his family, while “the streets of Gaza are littered with corpses.”
However, according to him there are still people who hope that the war will end soon.
“The progressive world that prides itself on human rights has failed us”
“But only God knows if it will be solved. The whole world has failed us, the progressive world that prides itself on human rights has failed us,” he added.
Also heading south, a Palestinian, Maryam al-Borno, said death, displacement and hunger forced her and her children to flee their home “to run for our lives”.
“We saw death with our own eyes during all that we feared,” he added.
“I’m just looking for a safe place”
People at a UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) school in Beit Lahia, where they had sought shelter, looked at the crater left by the blast.
“Even in the UNRWA shelters we cannot find safety,” said one man.
“I ask God to avenge the killers of children”
“I’m just looking for a safe place, nothing more, to save myself and my children,” he added.
Outside Gaza’s largest hospital, Al Shifa, entertainer Alaa Migdad gathered the displaced children and performed a clown show.
“Despite the pain we are living in, we will smile through it,” he said characteristically.
But Ismail al-Nagyar, whose residence in Khan Yunis in the south was hit by an airstrike, was less sanguine.
“I was coming with my horse, I stopped it, the plane came and dropped something … there was and bombed everything,” he initially said, adding: “It’s not just a disaster, it’s an earthquake … I ask God to avenge the killers of children.”
Source: in.gr
