By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem


The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn.

It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight.

He'd been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.

He'd heard a rising clamour outside. People were screaming. "You need to escape," somebody in the street shouted, "because they will bomb the towers".

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[–] 93 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I can't imagine packing up and leaving in 2 hours with my whole family and all my cats and everything

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago*

    If you still live in Northern Gaza to this day, after all that's being going on, and all the warnings to GTFO... you better keep your cats and belongings pre-packed and ready to be several blocks away in 30 minutes, don't even wait the 2 hours.

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  • [+] -31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Meh Israelis committing familicide is most probably God's curse upon those who choose to punish others by playing God.

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