The Inhumane Bombing in Gaza: Civilians Suffer Unjustly

A few weeks ago he was in Gaza and left just before the bombs started falling, but leaving his entire family there: his parents, his sister, and his 2 and 3-year-old nephews and a three-month-old child. He experiences the bombing with rage and helplessness. “My house has been razed. My entire neighborhood no longer exists and my entire family has had to flee. The brutality of the bombing is unprecedented, they do not attack military objectives, they attack civilians,” he says.

The Gaza Strip is the most densely populated territory on earth with 5,046 inhabitants per square kilometer. In total there are 2.2 million people, 43% under 15 years old, according to the United Nations Office for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).

This makes the Israeli attack that leaves (at the time of this edition) 1,200 civilian deaths even more damaging. “There is no safe place. My family has had to flee twice, there are already 300,000 displaced and many are overcrowded in houses, some with 30 or 50 people on a private floor,” says Tamer.

The Palestinians are alone

The Palestinians, at least Tamer, are well aware that they are alone on the international stage. “The bombing is being brutal, but we have to see how the European Union or the UN talk aboutIsrael’s “right to defend itself” To defend itself against whom? Of women and children? Of teachers? We are not Hamas but they are killing us,” he criticizes.

For Hamdan, the images being seen in the media speak for themselves. “They are bombing to the border, they have clearly said that no one is going to leave the country. The Minister of Defense literally said ‘we are dealing with human animals,'” he laments.

Israel has also cut off power, food supplies, electricity, and water to the strip. The internet arrives in dribs and drabs and the remaining electricity is produced with generators. “They are all trapped. It makes me angry and helpless knowing that my family could die at any moment. At any moment a bomb could fall on them,” denounces Tamer.

But for the doctor, the worst thing about this situation is the thunderous silence. “We have been in occupation and genocide for 75 years and they remain silent. Until people are cornered and desperate. It is not the first war we have experienced, but everything remains the same.

Tamer’s parents are doctors at the university, one of them is its dean. Although the whole family also has Spanish nationality, almost all of them live there. “They have their lives on the strip and they want to live there without harming anyone, calmly. Gaza It is a beautiful area when there is no war. The problem is that they have turned it into an open-air prison.”