A new massacre has been committed against the Al-Aidi family in Rafah. Cousins, the tragedy is immense, the pain is shared and profound. May God help us. The martyrs of the family are: 1. Nafiz Othman Al-Aidi, 60 years old, and his wife 2. Rabab Mahmoud Abu Sweilem, 52 years old, and her son 3. Nabil Nafiz Al-Aidi, 21 years old, and her daughter 4. Sabreen Nafiz Al-Aidi, 17 years old, and her daughter 5. Taleen Nafiz Al-Aidi, 13 years old 6. Hani Muhammad Al-Aidi, 41 years old, and his wife 7. Sawsan Al-Arja, 38 years old, and their child 8. Muath Hani Al-Aidi, 5 months old 9. Sally Nabil Al-Aidi, 21 years old, and the children of Muhammad Nabil Ali Al-Aidi 10. Rimas Muhammad Al-Aidi, 16 years old 11. Adam Muhammad Al-Aidi, 13 years old 12. Rinad Muhammad Al-Aidi 9 years old _Wife of Ahmed Nabil Al-Aidi 13_Reem Khamis Barakat, 33 years old, and her son 14_Yazan Ahmed Al-Aidi, 14 years old 15_Wife of Ali Nabil Al-Aidi, 29 years old, and her children 16-Nabil Ali Al-Aidi, 9 years old 17_Wissam Ali Al-Aidi, 7 years old 18_Qais Ali Al-Aidi, 2 months old _Children of Bilal Nabil Al-Aidi 19_Ghazal Bilal Al-Aidi, 9 years old 20_Hala Bilal Al-Aidi, 7 years old 21_Nabil Bilal Al-Aidi, 5 months old 22_Swar Mueen Abu Suleiman, 6 years old _Wife of Mahmoud Al-Aidi and her children 23_Maram Yousef Al-Kafrawi, 26 years old 24-His Egyptian wife and her son 25-Ahed Mahmoud Al-Aidi, 8 years old 26- Rababa Mahmoud Al-Aidi, 5 years old 27- Ibrahim Abu Salha's fiancée, Inas, 22 years old To God we belong and to Him we shall return. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs.

#مجزرة جديدة ترتكب بحق عائلة العايدي في رفح أبناء العمومة ، المصاب جلل والوجع واحد وكبير ، الله المستعان شهداء العائلة وهم : 1_ نافز عثمان العايدي ٦٠ عام وزوجته 2_رباب محمود ابو سويلم ٥٢ عام وابنها 3_نبيل نافز العايدي21 عام وابتها 4_صابرين نافز العايدي 17 عام وابنتها 5_تالين نافز العايدي 13 عام 6_هاني محمد العايدي 41 عام وزوجته 7_ سوسن العرجا 38 عام وطفلهم 8معاذ هاني العايدي 5 شهور 9_سالي نبيل العايدي 21 عام _ابناء محمد نبيل علي العايدي 10-ريماس محمد العايدي 16 عام 11-ادم محمد العايدي 13 عام 12-ريناد محمد العايدي 9 اعوام _زوجة احمد نبيل العايدي 13_ريم خميس بركات 33 عام وابنها 14_ يزن احمد العايدي 14 عام 15_زوجة علي نبيل العايدي 29 عام وابناءها 16- نبيل علي العايدي 9 اعوام 17_وسام علي العايدي 7 اعوام 18_قيس علي العايدي شهرين _اطفال بلال نبيل العايدي 19_غزل بلال العايدي 9 اعوام 20_حلى بلال العايدي 7 اعوام 21_نبيل بلال العايدي 5 اشهور 22_سوار معين ابو سليمان 6 اعوام _زوجة محمود العايدي واطفالها 23_مرام يوسف الكفراوي 26 عام 24-وزوجته المصريه -وابنها 25-عاهد محمود العايدي 8 اعوام 26- رباب محمود العايدي 5 اعوام 27- خطيبة ابراهيم ابو سلعه ايناس 22 عام إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

#Rafah.. The house of the Al-Aidi family in the Al-Junayna neighborhood of Rafah was bombed, and there are reports of injuries.

#رفح.. قصف منزل لعائلة العايدي في حي الجنينة برفح وحديث عن إصابات.

#Rafah... Names of the Dabour family martyrs who died in Rafah in the bombing of the Al-Aidi family home: 1- Mazen Muhammad Dabour 2- Khaled Mazen Dabour 3- Azza Mazen Dabour 4- Muhammad Mazen Dabour 5- Mai Mazen Dabour 6- Rahaf Mazen Dabour 7- Osama Muhammad Dabour 8- Samoud Abu Harbid 9- Sharif Osama Dabour 10- Dana Osama Dabour 11- Eileen Osama Dabour

#رفح.. أسماء شهداء عائلة دبور الذين قضوا في رفح في قصف منزل ٱل العايدي : 1- مازن محمد دبور 2- خالد مازن دبور 3- عزة مازن دبور 4- محمد مازن دبور 5- مي مازن دبور 6- رهف مازن دبور 7- أسامة محمد دبور 8- صمود أبو هربيد 9- شريف أسامة دبور 10- دانا اسامة دبور 11- إيلين أسامة دبور

Names of the Dabour family martyrs who died in Rafah during the bombing of the Al-Aidi family home: 1- Mazen Muhammad Dabour 2- Khaled Mazen Dabour 3- Azza Mazen Dabour 4- Muhammad Mazen Dabour 5- Mai Mazen Dabour 6- Rahaf Mazen Dabour 7- Osama Muhammad Dabour 8- Samoud Abu Harbid 9- Sharif Osama Dabour 10- Dana Osama Dabour 11- Eileen Osama Dabour

أسماء شهداء عائلة دبور الذين قضوا في رفح في قصف منزل ٱل العايدي : 1- مازن محمد دبور 2- خالد مازن دبور 3- عزة مازن دبور 4- محمد مازن دبور 5- مي مازن دبور 6- رهف مازن دبور 7- أسامة محمد دبور 8- صمود أبو هربيد 9- شريف أسامة دبور 10- دانا اسامة دبور 11- إيلين أسامة دبور

Martyrs of the Al-Aidi family massacre in Rafah on Monday, October 23, 2023: 1. Nafiz Othman Al-Aidi, 60 years old, and his wife 2. Rabab Mahmoud Abu Sweilem, 52 years old, and her son 3. Nabil Nafiz Al-Aidi, 21 years old, and his daughter 4. Sabreen Nafiz Al-Aidi, 17 years old, and her daughter 5. Taleen Nafiz Al-Aidi, 13 years old 6. Hani Muhammad Al-Aidi, 41 years old, and his wife 7. Sawsan Al-Arja, 38 years old, and their child 8. Muath Hani Al-Aidi, 5 months old 9. Sally Nabil Al-Aidi, 21 years old, children of Muhammad Nabil Ali Al-Aidi 10. Rimas Muhammad Al-Aidi, 16 years old 11. Adam Muhammad Al-Aidi, 13 years old 12. Rinad Muhammad Al-Aidi, 9 years old, wife of Ahmed Nabil Al-Aidi 13_Reem Khamis Barakat, 33 years old, and her son 14_Yazan Ahmed Al-Aidi, 14 years old 15_Ali Nabil Al-Aidi's wife, 29 years old, and their children 16_Nabil Ali Al-Aidi, 9 years old 17_Wissam Ali Al-Aidi, 7 years old 18_Qais Ali Al-Aidi, 2 months old _Children of Bilal Nabil Al-Aidi 19_Ghazal Bilal Al-Aidi, 9 years old 20_Hala Bilal Al-Aidi, 7 years old 21_Nabil Bilal Al-Aidi, 5 months old 22_Swar Mueen Abu Suleiman, 6 years old _Mahmoud Al-Aidi's wife and their children 23_Maram Yousef Al-Kafrawi, 26 years old 24_His Egyptian wife and their son 25_Ahed Mahmoud Al-Aidi, 8 years old 26_Rabab Mahmoud Al-Aidi, 5 years old 27- Ibrahim Abu Salha's fiancée, Inas, 22 years old

شهداء مجزرة عائلة العايدي في رفح يوم الاثنين 23/10/2023: 1_ نافز عثمان العايدي ٦٠ عام وزوجته 2_رباب محمود ابو سويلم ٥٢ عام وابنها 3_نبيل نافز العايدي21 عام وابتها 4_صابرين نافذ العايدي 17 عام وابنتها 5_تالين نافز العايدي 13 عام 6_هاني محمد العايدي 41 عام وزوجته 7_ سوسن العرجا 38 عام وطفلهم 8معاذ هاني العايدي 5 شهور 9_سالي نبيل العايدي 21 عام _ابناء محمد نبيل علي العايدي 10-ريماس محمد العايدي 16 عام 11-ادم محمد العايدي 13 عام 12-ريناد محمد العايدي 9 اعوام _زوجة احمد نبيل العايدي 13_ريم خميس بركات 33 عام وابنها 14_ يزن أحمد العايدي 14 عام 15_زوجة علي نبيل العايدي 29 عام وأبناءها 16- نبيل علي العايدي 9 اعوام  17_وسام علي العايدي 7 اعوام  18_قيس علي العايدي شهرين _اطفال بلال نبيل العايدي 19_غزل بلال العايدي 9 اعوام 20_حلى بلال العايدي 7 اعوام 21_نبيل بلال العايدي 5 اشهور  22_سوار معين ابو سليمان 6 اعوام _زوجة محمود العايدي واطفالها 23_مرام يوسف الكفراوي 26 عام 24-وزوجته المصرية -وابنها 25-عاهد محمود العايدي 8 أعوام 26- رباب محمود العايدي 5 أعوام 27- خطيبة إبراهيم أبو سلعه إيناس 22 عام

God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. The Al-Aidi house, which is inhabited only by women and children, was bombed.

حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل قصف بيت العايدي الذي لا يسكنه سوى النساء والأطفال

Urgent | Names of the martyrs from the Dabour family who were killed in Rafah in the bombing of the Al-Aidi family home: 1- Mazen Muhammad Dabour 2- Khaled Mazen Dabour 3- Azza Mazen Dabour 4- Muhammad Mazen Dabour 5- Mai Mazen Dabour 6- Rahaf Mazen Dabour 7- Osama Muhammad Dabour 8- Samoud Abu Harbid 9- Sharif Osama Dabour 10- Dana Osama Dabour 11- Eileen Osama Dabour

عاجل | أسماء شhداء عائلة دبور الذين قضوا في رفح في قdف منزل عائلة العايدي: 1- مازن محمد دبور 2- خالد مازن دبور 3- عزة مازن دبور 4- محمد مازن دبور 5- مي مازن دبور 6- رهف مازن دبور 7- أسامة محمد دبور 8- صمود أبو هربيد 9- شريف أسامة دبور 10- دانا اسامة دبور 11- إيلين أسامة دبور

Names of the Dabour family martyrs who died in Rafah during the bombing of the Al-Aidi family home: 1- Mazen Muhammad Dabour 2- Khaled Mazen Dabour 3- Azza Mazen Dabour 4- Muhammad Mazen Dabour 5- Mai Mazen Dabour 6- Rahaf Mazen Dabour 7- Osama Muhammad Dabour 8- Samoud Abu Harbid 9- Sharif Osama Dabour 10- Dana Osama Dabour 11- Eileen Osama Dabour

أسماء شهداء عائلة دبور الذين قضوا في رفح في قصف منزل ٱل العايدي : 1- مازن محمد دبور 2- خالد مازن دبور 3- عزة مازن دبور 4- محمد مازن دبور 5- مي مازن دبور 6- رهف مازن دبور 7- أسامة محمد دبور 8- صمود أبو هربيد 9- شريف أسامة دبور 10- دانا اسامة دبور 11- إيلين أسامة دبور

The names of the Dabour family martyrs who perished in Rafah during the bombing of the Al-Aidi family home: 1- Mazen Muhammad Dabour 2- Khaled Mazen Dabour 3- Azza Mazen Dabour 4- Muhammad Mazen Dabour 5- Mai Mazen Dabour 6- Rahaf Mazen Dabour 7- Osama Muhammad Dabour 8- Samoud Abu Harbid 9- Sharif Osama Dabour 10- Dana Osama Dabour 11- Eileen Osama Dabour May God suffice us, and He is the best disposer of affairs.

أسماء شهداء عائلة دبور الذين قضوا في رفح في قصف منزل ٱل العايدي : 1- مازن محمد دبور 2- خالد مازن دبور 3- عزة مازن دبور 4- محمد مازن دبور 5- مي مازن دبور 6- رهف مازن دبور 7- أسامة محمد دبور 8- صمود أبو هربيد 9- شريف أسامة دبور 10- دانا اسامة دبور 11- إيلين أسامة دبور حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل ..

Names of the Dabour family martyrs who died in Rafah during the bombing of the Al-Aidi family home: 1- Mazen Muhammad Dabour 2- Khaled Mazen Dabour 3- Azza Mazen Dabour 4- Muhammad Mazen Dabour 5- Mai Mazen Dabour 6- Rahaf Mazen Dabour 7- Osama Muhammad Dabour 8- Samoud Abu Harbid 9- Sharif Osama Dabour 10- Dana Osama Dabour 11- Eileen Osama Dabour

أسماء شهداء عائلة دبور الذين قضوا في رفح في قصف منزل ٱل العايدي : 1- مازن محمد دبور 2- خالد مازن دبور 3- عزة مازن دبور 4- محمد مازن دبور 5- مي مازن دبور 6- رهف مازن دبور 7- أسامة محمد دبور 8- صمود أبو هربيد 9- شريف أسامة دبور 10- دانا اسامة دبور 11- إيلين أسامة دبور

To God we belong and to Him we shall return. My cousins, Mazen Dabour and Osama Dabour, have met their Lord, along with their wives and children, in Gaza. May God accept them among the martyrs, God willing. May God have mercy on all the martyrs of Gaza and all Muslims. Amen, Amen. May God, in His mercy, watch over those of my family and the people of Gaza who are still alive. Our martyrs are in Paradise, and those who are in Hell are in Hell. God's promise is true.

انا لله وانا اليه راجعون أبناء عمتي مازن دبور أسامة دبور لقو رب كريم هم وزوجاتهم واولادهم في غزة ربنا يتقبلهم من الشهداء باذن الله ربنا يرحم جميع شهداء غزة والمسلمين جميعا امين امين ربنا يتولي برحمته من مازال عايش من اهلي وأهل غزة شهدائنا في الجنة وقت.لاهم في النار ان وعد الله حق

Martyrs of the Dabour (Al-Athamneh) Family Who were killed in the bombing of the Al-Aidi family home: 1. Martyr Mazen Muhammad Dabour 2. Martyr Khaled Mazen Dabour 3. Martyr Azza Mazen Dabour 4. Martyr Muhammad Mazen Dabour 5. Martyr Mai Mazen Dabour 6. Martyr Rahaf Mazen Dabour 7. Martyr Osama Muhammad Dabour 8. Martyr Samoud Abu Harbid 9. Martyr Sharif Osama Dabour 10. Martyr Dana Osama Dabour 11. Martyr Eileen Osama Dabour

شهــ.ـداء عائلة دبور( العثامنة) الذين ارتقوا في قصف منزل عائلة العايدي: ‏1. الشـ.ـهيد مازن محمد دبور ‏2. الشـ.ـهيد خالد مازن دبور ‏3. الشـ.ـهيدة عزة مازن دبور ‏4. الشـ.ـهيد محمد مازن دبور ‏5. الشـ.ـهيدة مي مازن دبور ‏6. الشـ.ـهيدة رهف مازن دبور ‏7. الشـ.ـهيد أسامة محمد دبور ‏8. الشـ.ـهيدة صمود أبو هربيد ‏9. الشـ.ـهيد شريف أسامة دبور ‏10. الشـ.ـهيدة دانا اسامة دبور ‏11. الشـ.ـهيدة إيلين أسامة دبور

I entrust to you, O God, my sister, her husband, her children, and my sister’s husband’s brother, Mazen Dabour, his wife, and his children. They departed without warning, without words of farewell. O God, have mercy on them, make Paradise their abode, and reunite us with them. O God, replace their soil with musk and basil, replace their shroud with the silk of Paradise, and make them the happiest of the happy.

استودعتك يا الله اختي و زوجها و اولادها و شقيق زوج اختي مازن دبور زوجته و اولاده رحلو دون موعد دون كلمات الوداع اللهم أرحمهم وأجعل الفردوس مستقر لهم واجمعنا بهم اللهم أبدل ترابهم بالمسك والريحان وأبدل كفننهم بحرير الجنان وأجعلهم اسعد السعداء.

To God we belong and to Him we shall return. The martyrdom of our cousins Mazen Muhammad Dabour Al-Athamneh and his family, and the martyrdom of Osama Muhammad Dabour Al-Athamneh and his family – 11 martyrs. There is no power nor strength except with God. O God, have mercy on them and grant them spacious gardens in Paradise.

إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون استشهاد أبناء العم مازن محمد دبور العثامنة وعائلته واستشهاد أسامة محمد دبور العثامنة وعائلته 11شهيد لا حول ولا قوه الا بالله اللهم ارحمهم وأسكنهم فسيح جناته

A new massacre has been committed against the Al-Aidi family in Rafah. Cousins, the tragedy is immense, the pain is shared and profound. May God help us. The martyrs of the family are: 1. Nafiz Othman Al-Aidi, 60 years old, and his wife 2. Rabab Mahmoud Abu Sweilem, 52 years old, and her son 3. Nabil Nafiz Al-Aidi, 21 years old, and her daughter 4. Sabreen Nafiz Al-Aidi, 17 years old, and her daughter 5. Taleen Nafiz Al-Aidi, 13 years old 6. Hani Muhammad Al-Aidi, 41 years old, and his wife 7. Sawsan Al-Arja, 38 years old, and their child 8. Muath Hani Al-Aidi, 5 months old 9. Sally Nabil Al-Aidi, 21 years old, and the children of Muhammad Nabil Ali Al-Aidi 10. Rimas Muhammad Al-Aidi, 16 years old 11. Adam Muhammad Al-Aidi, 13 years old 12. Rinad Muhammad Al-Aidi 9 years old _Wife of Ahmed Nabil Al-Aidi 13_Reem Khamis Barakat, 33 years old, and her son 14_Yazan Ahmed Al-Aidi, 14 years old 15_Wife of Ali Nabil Al-Aidi, 29 years old, and her children 16-Nabil Ali Al-Aidi, 9 years old 17_Wissam Ali Al-Aidi, 7 years old 18_Qais Ali Al-Aidi, 2 months old _Children of Bilal Nabil Al-Aidi 19_Ghazal Bilal Al-Aidi, 9 years old 20_Hala Bilal Al-Aidi, 7 years old 21_Nabil Bilal Al-Aidi, 5 months old 22_Swar Mueen Abu Suleiman, 6 years old _Wife of Mahmoud Al-Aidi and her children 23_Maram Yousef Al-Kafrawi, 26 years old 24-His Egyptian wife and her son 25-Ahed Mahmoud Al-Aidi, 8 years old 26- Rababa Mahmoud Al-Aidi, 5 years old 27- Ibrahim Abu Salha's fiancée, Inas, 22 years old To God we belong and to Him we shall return. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs.

#مجزرة جديدة ترتكب بحق عائلة العايدي في رفح أبناء العمومة ، المصاب جلل والوجع واحد وكبير ، الله المستعان شهداء العائلة وهم : 1_ نافز عثمان العايدي ٦٠ عام وزوجته 2_رباب محمود ابو سويلم ٥٢ عام وابنها 3_نبيل نافز العايدي21 عام وابتها 4_صابرين نافز العايدي 17 عام وابنتها 5_تالين نافز العايدي 13 عام 6_هاني محمد العايدي 41 عام وزوجته 7_ سوسن العرجا 38 عام وطفلهم 8معاذ هاني العايدي 5 شهور 9_سالي نبيل العايدي 21 عام _ابناء محمد نبيل علي العايدي 10-ريماس محمد العايدي 16 عام 11-ادم محمد العايدي 13 عام 12-ريناد محمد العايدي 9 اعوام _زوجة احمد نبيل العايدي 13_ريم خميس بركات 33 عام وابنها 14_ يزن احمد العايدي 14 عام 15_زوجة علي نبيل العايدي 29 عام وابناءها 16- نبيل علي العايدي 9 اعوام 17_وسام علي العايدي 7 اعوام 18_قيس علي العايدي شهرين _اطفال بلال نبيل العايدي 19_غزل بلال العايدي 9 اعوام 20_حلى بلال العايدي 7 اعوام 21_نبيل بلال العايدي 5 اشهور 22_سوار معين ابو سليمان 6 اعوام _زوجة محمود العايدي واطفالها 23_مرام يوسف الكفراوي 26 عام 24-وزوجته المصريه -وابنها 25-عاهد محمود العايدي 8 اعوام 26- رباب محمود العايدي 5 اعوام 27- خطيبة ابراهيم ابو سلعه ايناس 22 عام إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

My beloved Muhammad... May God have mercy on you and your family. My dear student, Muhammad Mazen Dabour, a martyr.

حبيبي يا محمد..ربنا يرحمك انت وعيلتك طالبي الخلوق.. محمد مازن دبور #_شهيد

We say only what pleases God. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs. My cousins, their children, and their wives: The names of the martyrs of the Dabour family who perished in Rafah during the bombing of the Al-Aidi family home: 1- Mazen Muhammad Dabour 2- Khaled Mazen Dabour 3- Azza Mazen Dabour 4- Muhammad Mazen Dabour 5- Mai Mazen Dabour 6- Rahaf Mazen Dabour 7- Osama Muhammad Dabour 8- Samoud Abu Harbid 9- Sharif Osama Dabour 10- Dana Osama Dabour 11- Eileen Osama Dabour O God, accept them among the martyrs and have mercy on them with Your vast mercy.

لانقول الا مايرضي الله وحسبي الله ونعم الوكيل اولادي عمي واطفالهم وزوجاتهم أسماء شهداء عائلة دبور الذين قضوا في رفح في قصف منزل ٱل العايدي : 1- مازن محمد دبور 2- خالد مازن دبور 3- عزة مازن دبور 4- محمد مازن دبور 5- مي مازن دبور 6- رهف مازن دبور 7- أسامة محمد دبور 8- صمود أبو هربيد 9- شريف أسامة دبور 10- دانا اسامة دبور 11- إيلين أسامة دبور اللهم تقبلهم عندك من الشهداء وارحمهم برحمتك الواسعة

Condolences and Sympathy "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" "And give good tidings to those who patiently persevere, who, when afflicted with calamity, say, 'Indeed, we belong to God, and indeed, to Him we will return.' Those are the ones upon whom are blessings from their Lord and mercy. And it is those who are the [rightly] guided." God Almighty has spoken the truth. With hearts believing in God's will and decree, the sons of the Al-Aidi family were martyred. The martyrs of the Al-Aidi family in Rafah are: 1. Nafiz Othman Al-Aidi, 60 years old, and his wife 2. Rabab Mahmoud Abu Sweilem, 52 years old, and her son 3. Nabil Nafiz Al-Aidi, 21 years old, and her daughter 4. Sabreen Nafiz Al-Aidi, 17 years old, and her daughter 5. Taleen Nafiz Al-Aidi, 13 years old 6. Hani Muhammad Al-Aidi, 41 years old, and his wife 7. Sawsan Al-Arja, 38 years old, and their child 8. Muath Hani Al-Aidi, 5 months old 9. Sally Nabil Al-Aidi, 21 years old, children of Muhammad Nabil Ali Al-Aidi 10. Rimas Muhammad Al-Aidi, 16 years old 11. Adam Muhammad Al-Aidi, 13 years old 12. Rinad Muhammad Al-Aidi, 9 years old 13. Reem Khamis Barakat, 33 years old, and her son 14. Yazan Ahmed Al-Aidi, 14 years old 15. Ali Nabil Al-Aidi's wife, 29 years old, and her children 16. Nabil Ali Al-Aidi, 9 years old 17. Wissam Ali Al-Aidi, 7 years old 18. Qais Ali Al-Aidi, 2 months old 19. Bilal Nabil Al-Aidi's children 20. Ghazal Bilal Al-Aidi, 9 years old 21. Hala Bilal Al-Aidi, 7 years old 22. Nabil Bilal Al-Aidi, 5 months old 23. Suwar Mu'in Abu Suleiman, 6 years old 24. Mahmoud Al-Aidi's wife and her children 25. Maram Yousef Al-Kafrawi, 26 years old 26. His Egyptian wife and her son 27. Ahed Mahmoud Al-Aidi, 8 years old 27. Rabab Mahmoud Al-Aidi, 5 years old 27- Ibrahim Abu Sal’a’s fiancée, Inas, 22 years old We ask God Almighty to have mercy on him, which encompasses all things, and to inspire his family with patience and solace. Indeed, we belong to God, and to Him we shall return.

تعزية ومواساة "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم" "وَبَشِّرِ الصَّابِرِينَ * الَّذِينَ إِذَا أَصَابَتْهُمْ مُصِيبَةٌ قَالُوا إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ * أُولَئِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ صَلَوَاتٌ مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ وَرَحْمَةٌ وَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُهْتَدُونَ." صدق الله العظيم. بقلوب مؤمنة بقضاء الله وقدره تم استشهاد ابناء عائلتي ال العايدي شهداء عائلة العايدي في رفح : 1_ نافز عثمان العايدي ٦٠ عام وزوجته 2_رباب محمود ابو سويلم ٥٢ عام وابنها 3_نبيل نافز العايدي21 عام وابتها 4_صابرين نافز العايدي 17 عام وابنتها 5_تالين نافز العايدي 13 عام 6_هاني محمد العايدي 41 عام وزوجته 7_ سوسن العرجا 38 عام وطفلهم 8معاذ هاني العايدي 5 شهور 9_سالي نبيل العايدي 21 عام _ابناء محمد نبيل علي العايدي 10-ريماس محمد العايدي 16 عام 11-ادم محمد العايدي 13 عام 12-ريناد محمد العايدي 9 اعوام _زوجة احمد نبيل العايدي 13_ريم خميس بركات 33 عام وابنها 14_ يزن احمد العايدي 14 عام 15_زوجة علي نبيل العايدي 29 عام وابناءها 16- نبيل علي العايدي 9 اعوام 17_وسام علي العايدي 7 اعوام 18_قيس علي العايدي شهرين _اطفال بلال نبيل العايدي 19_غزل بلال العايدي 9 اعوام 20_حلى بلال العايدي 7 اعوام 21_نبيل بلال العايدي 5 اشهور 22_سوار معين ابو سليمان 6 اعوام _زوجة محمود العايدي واطفالها 23_مرام يوسف الكفراوي 26 عام 24-وزوجته المصريه -وابنها 25-عاهد محمود العايدي 8 اعوام 26- رباب محمود العايدي 5 اعوام 27- خطيبة ابراهيم ابو سلعه ايناس 22 عام سائلين المولى عز وجل أن يتغمده برحمته التي وسعت كل شيئ وأن يلهم ذويه الصبر والسلوان، وإنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون.

27 members of the Al-Aidi family in Rafah were killed today when their home was bombed. This is in addition to the injuries and those still missing under the rubble. A genocide is being committed against the people of Gaza every minute. This is just one of dozens of families bombed on Monday night and early morning.

27 شخص من عائلة العايدي في رفح اسىتىشهدوا اليوم في قصىف منزلهم.. غير الإصىابات والمفقودين تحت الأنقـ..ـاض إبـ..ـادة جماعية في حق أهل غــ..ـزة ترتكب كل دقيقة.. دي عيلة واحدة من عشرات العائلات اللي قُصفت ليل وفجر الاثنين

Names of the martyrs from the Al-Athamneh family, children of Abu Sharif Dabour, may God have mercy on them, who were killed in Rafah in the bombing of the Al-Aidi family home: 1- Mazen Muhammad Dabour 2- Khaled Mazen Dabour 3- Azza Mazen Dabour 4- Muhammad Mazen Dabour 5- Mai Mazen Dabour 6- Rahaf Mazen Dabour 7- Osama Muhammad Dabour 8- Samoud Abu Harbid 9- Sharif Osama Dabour 10- Dana Osama Dabour 11- Eileen Osama Dabour ...Our neighbors and family, may God have mercy on you

أسماء شهداء عائلة العثامنة ابناء ابو شريف دبور رحمهم الله الذين قضوا في رفح في قصف منزل ٱل العايدي : 1- مازن محمد دبور 2- خالد مازن دبور 3- عزة مازن دبور 4- محمد مازن دبور 5- مي مازن دبور 6- رهف مازن دبور 7- أسامة محمد دبور 8- صمود أبو هربيد 9- شريف أسامة دبور 10- دانا اسامة دبور 11- إيلين أسامة دبور .... جيراننا وأهلنا رحمكم الله

May God have mercy on them and grant them Paradise. May God give you patience, my friend Umm Khalid. I hope you are well. The names of the martyrs from the Dabour family who were killed in Rafah in the bombing of the Al-Aidi house are: 1- Mazen Muhammad Dabour 2- Khalid Mazen Dabour 3- Azza Mazen Dabour 4- Muhammad Mazen Dabour 5- Mai Mazen Dabour 6- Rahaf Mazen Dabour 7- Osama Muhammad Dabour 8- Samoud Abu Harbid 9- Sharif Osama Dabour 10- Dana Osama Dabour 11- Eileen Osama Dabour

الله يرحمهم ويسكنهم فسيح الجنان الله يصبر قلبك يا صديقتي ام خالد واتمني ان تكوني بخير أسماء شهداء عائلة دبور الذين قضوا في رفح في قصف منزل ٱل العايدي : 1- مازن محمد دبور 2- خالد مازن دبور 3- عزة مازن دبور 4- محمد مازن دبور 5- مي مازن دبور 6- رهف مازن دبور 7- أسامة محمد دبور 8- صمود أبو هربيد 9- شريف أسامة دبور 10- دانا اسامة دبور 11- إيلين أسامة دبور

God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs. There is no power nor strength except with God. To God we belong, and to Him we shall return. May God have mercy on you all: my cousins, Umm Wasim, Sabreen, and Rimas Brika; my cousin, Umm Ahmed, Sally Al-Aidi; and my aunt's grandchildren and daughters-in-law. May God have mercy on them all and grant them Paradise. May God heal the wounded. May God grant you patience, my aunts.

حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل . لا حول ولا قوة الا بالله انا لله وانا اليه راجعون الله يرحمكم جميعا بنات خالتي أم وسيم. صابرين و ريماس بريكة بنت خالتي أم أحمد. سالي العايدي و احفاد خالتي و كناتها الله يرحمهم جميعا و يجعل مثواهم الجنة والله يشفي الجرحى الله يربط على قلوبكم الصبر يا خلاتي

Moons and brides of Paradise Sabreen Hossam Breika Rimas Hossam Breika Sally Nabil Al-Aidi May God have mercy on you and grant you His vast mercy

اقمار وعرائس الجنه صابرين حسام بريكه ريماس حسام بريكه سالي نبيل العايدي ربي يرحمكم ويتغمدكم بواسع رحمته

My friend Sally Al-Aidi, with her sweet smile, was martyred after 21 hours under the rubble.

صديقتي سالي العايدي صاحبة الابتسامة اللطيفة شهيدة بعد 21س من تحت الأنقاض

The martyrdom of my mother's only remaining child after the passing of her parents, my beloved aunt, my second mother, the dearest, closest, and most beloved person to my heart, who raised me as a child, supported me, and befriended me as an adult: Rabab Mahmoud Al-Aidi, her husband, father, brother, and friend, Nafiz Othman Al-Aidi, and their children: Nabil Nafiz Al-Aidi, Sabreen Nafiz Al-Aidi, and Taleen Nafiz Al-Aidi, and their grandchildren: Ahed Mahmoud Al-Aidi and Rabab Mahmoud Al-Aidi, and their daughters-in-law: Maram Yousef Al-Aidi and Maryam Abdulhadi Al-Aidi. O God, grant my mother patience and ease this grief for her and for us all. Have mercy on those we have lost, forgive them, and grant them Paradise. O God, all praise is due to You until You are pleased, all praise is due to You when You are pleased, and all praise is due to You after You are pleased.

اىىىتشهاد وحيدة أمي وآخر من تبقى لها بعد رحيل والديها خالتي حبيبتي وأمي الثانية وأغلا وأقرب وأحب الناس لقلبي من ربتني صغيراً وسندتني وصادقتني كبيراً رباب محمود العايدي وزوجها الأب والأخ والصديق نافذ عثمان العايدي وأولادها نبيل نافذ العايدي صابرين نافذ العايدي تالين نافذ العايدي وأحفادها عاهد محمود العايدي رباب محمود العايدي وكنائنها مرام يوسف العايدي ومريم عبدالهادي العايدي اللهم اربط على قلب أمي وخفف عليها وعلينا هذا المصاب وارحم من فقدنا برحمتك واغفرلهم واسكنهم جنانك يا الله ، اللهم لك الحمد حتى ترضى ولك الحمد اذ رضيت ولك الحمد بعد الرضا

We belong to God, and to Him we shall return. We extend our deepest condolences to our sister and sister-in-law, Sherin Nafez, on the martyrdom of her father, Nafez Othman Al-Aidi, her mother, the kind and loving aunt Rabab Sweilem (Al-Aidi), Umm Othman, her brother, the young Nabil Nafez Al-Aidi, her sisters, Sabreen Nafez Al-Aidi and Taleen Nafez Al-Aidi, her brother Mahmoud's wife, Maram Al-Kafrawi, and her children, Ahed and Rabab, and Mahmoud's second wife, Maryam Hamdi Abdel-Hadi. May God grant her patience and strength.

حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل إنّا لله وان اليه راجعون نتقدم بأحر التعازي لاختي وسلفتي شيرين العايدي Sherin Nafez باستشهاد والدها نافز عثمان العايدي ووالدتها الخالة الحنونة رباب سويلم ( العايدي ) ام عثمان واخوها الشاب نبيل نافز العايدي واختها صابرين نافز العايدي واختها تالين نافز العايدي وزوجة اخيها محمود( مرام الكفراوي ) واولادها الأطفال عاهد ورباب وزوجة محمود الثانية مريم حمدي عبد الهادي يارب اربط ع قلبها وصبرها ياارب

"And never think that those who have been killed in the cause of Allah are dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision." The martyrdom of my beloved, kind uncle, Nafiz Al-Aidi (Abu Othman), and my aunt, Rabab Abu Sweilem, the kind-hearted, precious mother, and Nabil Al-Aidi, my brother, friend, and support. You're gone, Nabil. My heart aches for you, Nabil (Abu Ahed). And Sabreen Al-Aidi, who suddenly grew up and became a young woman, the most outstanding girl, a source of pride. Her dream was to become a doctor. Congratulations, Sabreen, you've earned the most beautiful degree, my dear sister. And Taleen Al-Aidi, the darling who grew up with us and was so attached to us, and we to her. O God, grant us patience for you. And the wives of Mahmoud, my cousin, Maryam and Maram, and their children, Ahed and Rabab. Indeed, the eye Tears well up in our eyes, and our hearts grieve, and we are truly saddened by your departure. We say only what pleases our Lord: "To God we belong, and to Him we shall return." O God, grant patience to Othman in his exile, and soothe the fire in his heart, and to Mahmoud, Mona, and Shireen. May God accept you in the highest ranks of Paradise and reunite us with you in the highest gardens of Paradise, O Lord. Congratulations on your victory! And you have broken our hearts. O Lord, grant us patience. God is sufficient for us.

" وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ قُتِلُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَمْوَاتًا ۚ بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ يُرْزَقُونَ " استشهاد عمي حبيبي الحنون نافز العايدي أبو عثمان وخالتي رباب أبو سويلم صاحبة القلب الحنون الأم الغالية ونبيل العايدي الأخ والصديق والسند رحت ي نبيل خلص ي وجع القلب عليك ي نبيل ابو عاهد وصابرين العايدي الي فجئة كبرت وصارت صبية وست الصبايا البنت المتفوقة الي بترفع الراس كان حلمها تكون دكتوره نيالك فزتي بأحلي شهادة ياصبرين ي روحي أنتي يختي تالين العايدي الدلوعة الي اتربت عنا وكانت متعلقة فينا ومتعلقين فيهاااا يااااارب صبرنا عليكم وزوجات محمود أبن العم مريم ومرام واطفالها عاهد ورباب إن العين لتدمع وإن القلب ليحزن وإنا على فراقكم لمحزونون لا نقول إلا مايرضي ربنا إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون اللهم صبراً جميلا لعثمان بالغربة وبرد نار قلبة ولمحمود ولمنى ولشيرين تقبلكم الله في عليين وجمعنا بكم في جنات الفردوس الاعلى يارب نيالكم ربحتو وكسرتو قلبنا عليكم ياااارب صبرنا حسبي الله

O God, reward us for our loss and replace it with something better. To God we belong and to Him we shall return. We consider you martyrs, God willing. Martyr: Osama Dabour His wife, the martyr: Samoud Abu Harbid And their three children, the martyrs: Sharif, Dana, and Eileen May God have mercy on you and grant you Paradise, and inspire us with patience and solace. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs.

اللهم آجرنا في مصيبتنا واخلفنا خيرا منها إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون نحتسبكم شهداء بإذن الله الشهيد : أسامة دبور زوجته الشهيدة: صمود أبو هربيد وأطفالهم الثلاثة الشهداء:شريف ودانا وإيلين رحمكم الله وجعلكم في جنات النعيم وألهمنا الصبر والسلوان حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

Condolences and Sympathy "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" "And give good tidings to those who patiently persevere, who, when afflicted with calamity, say, 'Indeed, we belong to God, and indeed, to Him we will return.' Those are the ones upon whom are blessings from their Lord and mercy. And it is those who are the [rightly] guided." God Almighty has spoken the truth. With hearts believing in God's will and decree, the sons of the Al-Aidi family were martyred. The martyrs of the Al-Aidi family in Rafah are: 1. Nafiz Othman Al-Aidi, 60 years old, and his wife 2. Rabab Mahmoud Abu Sweilem, 52 years old, and her son 3. Nabil Nafiz Al-Aidi, 21 years old, and her daughter 4. Sabreen Nafiz Al-Aidi, 17 years old, and her daughter 5. Taleen Nafiz Al-Aidi, 13 years old 6. Hani Muhammad Al-Aidi, 41 years old, and his wife 7. Sawsan Al-Arja, 38 years old, and their child 8. Muath Hani Al-Aidi, 5 months old 9. Sally Nabil Al-Aidi, 21 years old, children of Muhammad Nabil Ali Al-Aidi 10. Rimas Muhammad Al-Aidi, 16 years old 11. Adam Muhammad Al-Aidi, 13 years old 12. Rinad Muhammad Al-Aidi, 9 years old 13. Reem Khamis Barakat, 33 years old, and her son 14. Yazan Ahmed Al-Aidi, 14 years old 15. Ali Nabil Al-Aidi's wife, 29 years old, and her children 16. Nabil Ali Al-Aidi, 9 years old 17. Wissam Ali Al-Aidi, 7 years old 18. Qais Ali Al-Aidi, 2 months old 19. Bilal Nabil Al-Aidi's children 20. Ghazal Bilal Al-Aidi, 9 years old 21. Hala Bilal Al-Aidi, 7 years old 22. Nabil Bilal Al-Aidi, 5 months old 23. Suwar Mu'in Abu Suleiman, 6 years old 24. Mahmoud Al-Aidi's wife and her children 25. Maram Yousef Al-Kafrawi, 26 years old 26. His Egyptian wife and her son 27. Ahed Mahmoud Al-Aidi, 8 years old 27. Rabab Mahmoud Al-Aidi, 5 years old 27- Ibrahim Abu Sal’a’s fiancée, Inas, 22 years old We ask God Almighty to have mercy on him, which encompasses all things, and to inspire his family with patience and solace. Indeed, we belong to God, and to Him we shall return.

تعزية ومواساة "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم" "وَبَشِّرِ الصَّابِرِينَ * الَّذِينَ إِذَا أَصَابَتْهُمْ مُصِيبَةٌ قَالُوا إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ * أُولَئِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ صَلَوَاتٌ مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ وَرَحْمَةٌ وَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُهْتَدُونَ." صدق الله العظيم. بقلوب مؤمنة بقضاء الله وقدره تم استشهاد ابناء عائلتي ال العايدي شهداء عائلة العايدي في رفح : 1_ نافز عثمان العايدي ٦٠ عام وزوجته 2_رباب محمود ابو سويلم ٥٢ عام وابنها 3_نبيل نافز العايدي21 عام وابتها 4_صابرين نافز العايدي 17 عام وابنتها 5_تالين نافز العايدي 13 عام 6_هاني محمد العايدي 41 عام وزوجته 7_ سوسن العرجا 38 عام وطفلهم 8معاذ هاني العايدي 5 شهور 9_سالي نبيل العايدي 21 عام _ابناء محمد نبيل علي العايدي 10-ريماس محمد العايدي 16 عام 11-ادم محمد العايدي 13 عام 12-ريناد محمد العايدي 9 اعوام _زوجة احمد نبيل العايدي 13_ريم خميس بركات 33 عام وابنها 14_ يزن احمد العايدي 14 عام 15_زوجة علي نبيل العايدي 29 عام وابناءها 16- نبيل علي العايدي 9 اعوام 17_وسام علي العايدي 7 اعوام 18_قيس علي العايدي شهرين _اطفال بلال نبيل العايدي 19_غزل بلال العايدي 9 اعوام 20_حلى بلال العايدي 7 اعوام 21_نبيل بلال العايدي 5 اشهور 22_سوار معين ابو سليمان 6 اعوام _زوجة محمود العايدي واطفالها 23_مرام يوسف الكفراوي 26 عام 24-وزوجته المصريه -وابنها 25-عاهد محمود العايدي 8 اعوام 26- رباب محمود العايدي 5 اعوام 27- خطيبة ابراهيم ابو سلعه ايناس 22 عام سائلين المولى عز وجل أن يتغمده برحمته التي وسعت كل شيئ وأن يلهم ذويه الصبر والسلوان، وإنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون.

O God, grant us patience in our grief over the martyrdom of my dear cousin, my beloved sister Rabab Abu Sweilem (Um Othman), her husband, our cousin Nafiz Al-Aidi, their handsome young son Nabil Al-Aidi, their beautiful daughter Sabreen Al-Aidi, their young daughter Taleen Al-Aidi, their son's wives (Maram Al-Kafrawi) and their children Ahed and Rabab, and Maryam Hamdi Abdel-Hadi. We belong to God, and to Him we shall return.

اللهم اربط على قلوبنا باستشهاد ابنة عمي بل اختي الحنونة رباب ابو سويلم ( أم عثمان ) وزوجها ابن العم نافز العايدي وابنهم الشاب الجميل نبيل العايدي وابنتهم الجميلة صابرين العايدي وابنتهم الصغيرة تالين العايدي وزوجات ابنهم ( مرام الكفراوي ) وابنائها عاهد ورباب ومريم حمدي عبد الهادي حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل ان لله وإن اليه راجعون

To God we belong and to Him we shall return. The heart grieves and the eye sheds tears, and we are truly saddened by your departure. May God have mercy on irreplaceable souls and grant them spacious gardens in Paradise. We consider them martyrs in God's eyes. May God have mercy on your souls; you have truly broken our hearts. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs. May God elevate your status in Paradise. Martyrs of the Al-Aidi family in Rafah: 1. Nafiz Othman Al-Aidi, 60 years old, and his wife 2. Rabab Mahmoud Abu Sweilem, 52 years old, and her son 3. Nabil Nafiz Al-Aidi, 21 years old, and her daughter 4. Sabreen Nafiz Al-Aidi, 17 years old, and her daughter 5. Taleen Nafiz Al-Aidi, 13 years old 6. Hani Muhammad Al-Aidi, 41 years old, and his child 7. Muath Hani Al-Aidi, 5 months old 8. Sally Nabil Al-Aidi, 21 years old The children of Muhammad Nabil Ali Al-Aidi 9- Rimas Muhammad Al-Aidi, 16 years old 10- Adam Muhammad Al-Aidi, 13 years old 11- Rinad Muhammad Al-Aidi, 9 years old, wife of Ahmad Nabil Al-Aidi 12- Reem Khamis Barakat, 33 years old, and her son 13- Yazan Ahmad Al-Aidi, 14 years old 14- Ali Nabil Al-Aidi's wife, 29 years old, and her children 15- Nabil Ali Al-Aidi, 9 years old 16- Wissam Ali Al-Aidi, 7 years old 17- Qais Ali Al-Aidi, 2 months old, children of Bilal Nabil Al-Aidi 18- Ghazal Bilal Al-Aidi, 9 years old 19- Hala Bilal Al-Aidi, 7 years old 20- Nabil Bilal Al-Aidi, 5 months old 21- Suwar Mu'in Abu Suleiman, 6 years old, wife of Mahmoud Al-Aidi, and her children 22- Maram Yusuf Al-Kafrawi, 26 years old 23- His Egyptian wife - And their son 24- Ahed Mahmoud Al-Aidi, 8 years old 25- Rabab Mahmoud Al-Aidi, 5 years old

انا لله وانا اليه راجعون ان القلب ليحزن وان العين لتدمع وان على فراقكم لمحزنون رحم الله اروحاً لا تعوض وادخلهم في فسيح جناته ونحتسبهم عند الله شهداء الله يرحم روحكم والله وجعتو قلوبنا حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل ربنا يجعل مكانتكم في عليين شهداء عائلة العايدي في رفح : 1_ نافز عثمان العايدي ٦٠ عام وزوجته 2_رباب محمود ابو سويلم ٥٢ عام وابنها 3_نبيل نافز العايدي21 عام وابتها 4_صابرين نافز العايدي 17 عام وابنتها 5_تالين نافز العايدي 13 عام 6_هاني محمد العايدي 41 عام وطفله 7_معاذ هاني العايدي 5 شهور 8_سالي نبيل العايدي 21 عام _ابناء محمد نبيل علي العايدي 9-ريماس محمد العايدي 16 عام 10-ادم محمد العايدي 13 عام 11-ريناد محمد العايدي 9 اعوام _زوجة احمد نبيل العايدي 12_ريم خميس بركات 33 عام وابنها 13_ يزن احمد العايدي 14 عام 14_زوجة علي نبيل العايدي 29 عام وابناءها 15- نبيل علي العايدي 9 اعوام 16_وسام علي العايدي 7 اعوام 17_قيس علي العايدي شهرين _اطفال بلال نبيل العايدي 18_غزل بلال العايدي 9 اعوام 19_حلى بلال العايدي 7 اعوام 20_نبيل بلال العايدي 5 اشهور 21_سوار معين ابو سليمان 6 اعوام _زوجة محمود العايدي واطفالها 22_مرام يوسف الكفراوي 26 عام 23-وزوجته المصريه -وابنها 24-عاهد محمود العايدي 8 اعوام 25- رباب محمود العايدي 5 اعوام

My student and my beloved Sabreen Nafiz Al-Aidi... May God have mercy on you, Sabreen, and may He accept you as a martyr, God willing. You broke my heart, my dear.

طالبتي وحبيبتي صابرين نافذ العايدي ... الله يرحمك يا صابرين ويتقبلك ربنا شـ.ــهيدة بإذن الله وجعتيلي قلبي يا عمري أنتي

Mahmoud Nafez al-'Aidy, a 30-year-old from Rafah, lost his wife, two children, parents and brothers when his family’s building was bombed. In a testimony he gave to B’Tselem field researcher Muhammad Sabah on 30 October 2023, he related:  I lived with my wife and our two children, ‘Ahed (8) and Rabab (5), near my parents in the a-Naser neighborhood, which lies east of the city of Rafah.  On the second day of the war, Israel started shelling the area. Shells fell very close to our homes, so we had to leave along with all the neighbors. We went to stay with my cousin, Nabil al-‘Aidy, who lived in a three-story building with six apartments in the neighborhood of al-Juneinah in Rafah. We stayed in an apartment on the first floor along with my parents and brothers. In the opposite apartment were other relatives. Things were relatively quiet in that neighborhood. We only went out to stock up on groceries and didn't run into any trouble, because the area was pretty quiet. On Monday, 23 October 2023, at about 1:20 P.M., I went out to the grocery store while my family was getting ready for lunch. As soon as I stepped out of the building, I was thrown about 50 meters away. I jumped back to my feet and wanted to run to the building to check on my wife, kids, father and mother and brothers. Some passers-by found me bleeding from the head and took me to a pharmacy, where my head was bandaged. I went back to the building and found our apartments completely destroyed. I was shocked. I fainted and fell down.  I woke up in a-Najar Hospital. I had fractures and bruising and the doctors wanted to keep me there, but I insisted on going back to look for my family. When I arrived I found neighbors there, including my friend Anas al-‘Adaisi, and they all helped search for my family. We got 11 injured people out and a lot of bodies. Only the next day were we able to extract the bodies of my wife, kids, parents and brothers. The bodies were dismembered.  It was a horrible sight, indescribable. It broke me to see my boys like that. I'm in a terrible state. I don't know how I’ll deal with what happened to me. I never imagined I’d end up in this situation. I never imagined I’d lose my family like this. I’m alone in the world now. Everything I cared about is gone.  Some of the children killed in the bombing The bombing killed 49 people, at least 20 of them minors, and injured 11. These are their names: Nafez ‘Othman al-‘Aidy, 60   His wife: Rabab Mahmoud Abu Sweilim (al-‘Aidy), 52, their children:  Nabil Nafez ‘Othman al-‘Aidy, 19  Sabrin Nafez al-‘Aidy, 17  Talin Nafez al-‘Aidy, 13  Hani Muhammad al-‘Aidy, 41  His son: Mu’az Hani al-‘Aidy, 5 months  Sali Nabil al-‘Aidy, 21  Israa Khaled al-‘Aidy, 33. Her children:  Nabil ‘Ali al-‘Aidy, 9  Wisam ‘Ali al-‘Aidy, 7  Qays ‘Ali al-‘Aidy, 2 months  Ghazal Bilal al-‘Aidy, 9  Hala Bilal al-‘Aidy, 7  Nabil Bilal al-‘Aidy, 5 months  Maram Yusef al-Kafrawi, 26  ‘Ahed Mahmoud Nafez al-‘Aidy, 8   Rabab Mahmoud Nafez al-‘Aidy, 5  Rinad Muhammad al-‘Aidy, 9  Rimas Muhammad al-‘Aidy, 16  Adam Muhammad al-‘Aidy, 13  Rim Khamis Barakat, 33 – Ahmad al-‘Aidy’s wife  Yazan Ahmad Nabil al-‘Aidy, 14  Maryam Hamdi ‘Abd al-Qader al-‘Aidy-‘Abd a-Latif   Sabrin Husam Breikah, 21  Rimas Husam Breikah, 18  Siwar Abu Suliman, 19  Halimah a-Zein  Raafat a-Zein  Mahmoud Rafaat a-Zein  Muhammad Rafaat a-Zein  Ahmad Rafaat a-Zein  Saja Rafaat a-Zein  Raghdah a-Zein  Inas a-Zein  Mazen Muhammad Khalil Dabur, 44 Khaled Mazen Dabur, 17  Muhammad Mazen Dabur, 15  ‘Azzah Mazen Dabur, 20 Mai Mazen Dabur, 16 Rahaf Mazen Dabur, 8 Ousamah Muhammad Khalil Dabur, 38 Sumoud Dabur, 29  Alin Ousamah Dabur, 3 Dana Ousamah Dabur, 6   Sharaf Ousamah Dabur, 9 Three other bodies have not yet been identified, and were apparently passers-by on the street. Read the testimony of Mahmoud's cousin, Muhammad Nabil al-‘Aidy. Read the testimony of 'Amer Dabur, who family was sheltering in the al-'Aidy building

Mahmoud Nafez al-'Aidy, a 30-year-old from Rafah, lost his wife, two children, parents and brothers when his family’s building was bombed. In a testimony he gave to B’Tselem field researcher Muhammad Sabah on 30 October 2023, he related:  I lived with my wife and our two children, ‘Ahed (8) and Rabab (5), near my parents in the a-Naser neighborhood, which lies east of the city of Rafah.  On the second day of the war, Israel started shelling the area. Shells fell very close to our homes, so we had to leave along with all the neighbors. We went to stay with my cousin, Nabil al-‘Aidy, who lived in a three-story building with six apartments in the neighborhood of al-Juneinah in Rafah. We stayed in an apartment on the first floor along with my parents and brothers. In the opposite apartment were other relatives. Things were relatively quiet in that neighborhood. We only went out to stock up on groceries and didn't run into any trouble, because the area was pretty quiet. On Monday, 23 October 2023, at about 1:20 P.M., I went out to the grocery store while my family was getting ready for lunch. As soon as I stepped out of the building, I was thrown about 50 meters away. I jumped back to my feet and wanted to run to the building to check on my wife, kids, father and mother and brothers. Some passers-by found me bleeding from the head and took me to a pharmacy, where my head was bandaged. I went back to the building and found our apartments completely destroyed. I was shocked. I fainted and fell down.  I woke up in a-Najar Hospital. I had fractures and bruising and the doctors wanted to keep me there, but I insisted on going back to look for my family. When I arrived I found neighbors there, including my friend Anas al-‘Adaisi, and they all helped search for my family. We got 11 injured people out and a lot of bodies. Only the next day were we able to extract the bodies of my wife, kids, parents and brothers. The bodies were dismembered.  It was a horrible sight, indescribable. It broke me to see my boys like that. I'm in a terrible state. I don't know how I’ll deal with what happened to me. I never imagined I’d end up in this situation. I never imagined I’d lose my family like this. I’m alone in the world now. Everything I cared about is gone.  Some of the children killed in the bombing The bombing killed 49 people, at least 20 of them minors, and injured 11. These are their names: Nafez ‘Othman al-‘Aidy, 60   His wife: Rabab Mahmoud Abu Sweilim (al-‘Aidy), 52, their children:  Nabil Nafez ‘Othman al-‘Aidy, 19  Sabrin Nafez al-‘Aidy, 17  Talin Nafez al-‘Aidy, 13  Hani Muhammad al-‘Aidy, 41  His son: Mu’az Hani al-‘Aidy, 5 months  Sali Nabil al-‘Aidy, 21  Israa Khaled al-‘Aidy, 33. Her children:  Nabil ‘Ali al-‘Aidy, 9  Wisam ‘Ali al-‘Aidy, 7  Qays ‘Ali al-‘Aidy, 2 months  Ghazal Bilal al-‘Aidy, 9  Hala Bilal al-‘Aidy, 7  Nabil Bilal al-‘Aidy, 5 months  Maram Yusef al-Kafrawi, 26  ‘Ahed Mahmoud Nafez al-‘Aidy, 8   Rabab Mahmoud Nafez al-‘Aidy, 5  Rinad Muhammad al-‘Aidy, 9  Rimas Muhammad al-‘Aidy, 16  Adam Muhammad al-‘Aidy, 13  Rim Khamis Barakat, 33 – Ahmad al-‘Aidy’s wife  Yazan Ahmad Nabil al-‘Aidy, 14  Maryam Hamdi ‘Abd al-Qader al-‘Aidy-‘Abd a-Latif   Sabrin Husam Breikah, 21  Rimas Husam Breikah, 18  Siwar Abu Suliman, 19  Halimah a-Zein  Raafat a-Zein  Mahmoud Rafaat a-Zein  Muhammad Rafaat a-Zein  Ahmad Rafaat a-Zein  Saja Rafaat a-Zein  Raghdah a-Zein  Inas a-Zein  Mazen Muhammad Khalil Dabur, 44 Khaled Mazen Dabur, 17  Muhammad Mazen Dabur, 15  ‘Azzah Mazen Dabur, 20 Mai Mazen Dabur, 16 Rahaf Mazen Dabur, 8 Ousamah Muhammad Khalil Dabur, 38 Sumoud Dabur, 29  Alin Ousamah Dabur, 3 Dana Ousamah Dabur, 6   Sharaf Ousamah Dabur, 9 Three other bodies have not yet been identified, and were apparently passers-by on the street. Read the testimony of Mahmoud's cousin, Muhammad Nabil al-‘Aidy. Read the testimony of 'Amer Dabur, who family was sheltering in the al-'Aidy building

A 30-year-old man, who lost his wife, two children, parents, and brother in the bombing of the al-'Aidi family building, told B'Tselem field researcher Muhammad Sabah on October 30, 2023: My wife, our two children, Ahed (8) and Rabab (5), and I lived in a house in the al-Nasser neighborhood in eastern Rafah, next to my parents. On the second day of the war, Israel began bombing the area, and shells landed right next to our homes. We and all the neighbors were forced to evacuate. We moved to my cousin Nabil al-'Aidi's house, which has three floors and six apartments, in the al-Jineina neighborhood of Rafah. We lived there in an apartment on the first floor with my parents and brothers, while my relatives lived in the apartment across the street. The situation in this neighborhood was relatively quiet. We only went out to buy necessities, and we didn't encounter any problems because it was a relatively quiet area. On Monday, October 23, 2023, at around 1:20 PM, I went out to buy some groceries while my extended family was getting ready for lunch. The moment I left the building, I flew about 50 meters. I immediately got up and wanted to run to the building to check on my family—my wife, children, father, mother, and siblings. But passersby who saw me bleeding from my head took me to a pharmacy, where they bandaged my head. I returned to the building and saw that our apartments were completely destroyed. I was shocked. I lost consciousness and fell to the ground. When I woke up, I found myself in Al-Najjar Hospital. I had suffered fractures and bruises, and the doctors wanted to keep me there, but I asked to go home to look for my family members. When I arrived, some neighbors were there, including my friend Anas Al-Adisi, and they all helped me search for the family members. We rescued 11 injured people and recovered many bodies. Only the next day were we able to retrieve the bodies of my family members: my wife, my two children, my parents, and my siblings. The bodies were in pieces. The scene was horrible, impossible to describe. Seeing my children like this broke me. I am in a terrible state. I don't know how I will deal with what happened to me. I never thought I would reach this state. I never thought I would lose my entire family like this. I am left alone in this world. I have lost everyone who was important in my life. Some minors were killed in the bombing of the building. 49 people were killed as a result of the bombing, including at least 20 minors, and 11 were injured. These are the names of the dead: Nafeth Othman Al-Aidi (60 years old) and his wife Rabab Mahmoud Abu Suwailem (Al-Aidi) (52 years old) Their children: Nabil Nafeth Al-Aidi (21 years old) Sabreen Nafeth Al-Aidi (17 years old) Talin Nafeth Al-Aidi (13 years old) Hani Muhammad Al-Aidi (41 years old) His son: Moaz Hani Al-Aidi (5 months old) Sally Nabeel Al-Aidi (21 years old) Nabeel Ali Al-Aidi (9 years old) Wissam Ali Al-Aidi (7 years old) Qais Ali Al-Aidi (2 months old) Ghazal Bilal Al-Aidi (9 years old) Hala Bilal Al-Aidi (7 years old) Nabeel Bilal Al-Aidi (5 months old) Maram Yousef Al-Kafrawi (26 years old) Ahed Mahmoud Al-Aidi (8 years old) Rabab Mahmoud Al-Aidi (5 years old) Ranaad Muhammad Al-Aidi (9 years old) Rimas Muhammad Al-Aidi (16 years old) Adam Muhammad Al-Aidi (13 years old) Israa Khaled Al-Aidi (33 years old), wife of Ali Reem Khamis Barakat (33 years old), wife of Ahmed Yazan Ahmed Nabil Al-Aidi (14 years old) Maryam Hamdi Abdul Qader Al-Aidi - Abdul Latif Nabil Nafith Othman Al-Aidi (19 years old) Ahed Mahmoud Nafith Al-Aidi (8 years old) Rabab Mahmoud Nafith Al-Aidi (5 years old) Sabreen Hussam Brika (21 years old), cousin of Rimas Hussam Brika (18 years old) Suwar Abu Suleiman (19 years old) Halima Al-Zain Raafat Al-Zain Mahmoud Raafat Al-Zain Muhammad Raafat Al-Zain Ahmed Raafat Al-Zain Saja Raafat Al-Zain Raghda Al-Zain, sister of Raafat Enas Al-Zain, sister of Raafat Mazen Muhammad Khalil Dabour (44 years old) Khaled Mazen Dabour (17 years old) Muhammad Mazen Dabour (15 years old) Azza Mazen Dabbour (20 years old) Mai Mazen Dabbour (16 years old) Rahaf Mazen Dabbour (8 years old) Osama Mohammed Khalil Dabbour (38 years old) Sumoud Dabbour (29 years old), Osama's wife Aline Osama Dabbour (3 years old) Dana Osama Dabbour (6 years old) Sharaf Osama Dabbour (9 years old) and three other people who have not yet been identified, and they appear to be passersby who were injured in the street. To read the testimony of Mahmoud Mohammed Nabil Al-Aidi's cousin. The testimony of Amer Dabbour, who was displaced with his family to the Al-Aidi family building.

30 عامًا، الذي فقد زوجته وطفليه ووالديه وشقيقه في قصف بناية عائلة العايدي، قال في الإفادة التي أدلى بها أمام باحث بتسيلم الميدانيّ محمّد صباح، في 30.10.23:  أنا وزوجتي وطفلانا، عاهد (8 أعوام) ورباب (5 أعوام)، كنّا نسكن في منزل في حيّ النصرشرقيّ مدينة رفح، بجوار والديّ.  في اليوم الثاني من الحرب بدأت إسرائيل تقصف المنطقة وسقطت القذائف بالقرب من منازلنا تماماً، فاضطررنا نحن وجميع الجيران إلى إخلاء المكان. انتقلنا إلى منزل ابن عمّي نبيل العايدي، المكوّن من ثلاثة طوابق وستّ شقق، في حيّ الجنينة في رفح. أقمنا هناك في شقّة في الطابق الأوّل سويّةً مع والديّ وإخوتي، وكان أقاربي يسكنون في الشقّة المقابلة. في هذا الحيّ كان الوضع هادئًا نسبيًّا. خرجنا من المنزل للتزوّد بالحاجات فقط، ولم نواجه مشاكل لأنّه لأنها كانت منطقة هادئة نسبياً.  في يوم الاثنين الموافق 23.10.23 نحو الساعة 13:20 خرجتُ لشراء حاجات من الدكّان بينما كان أفراد عائلتي الموسّعة يستعدّون لتناول الغداء. لحظة خروجي من البناية طرتُ مسافة 50 مترًا تقريبًا. قمتُ على الفور وأردتُ أن أركض إلى البناية لتفقّد حالة أفراد عائلتي، زوجتي، الأطفال، أبي، أمّي وإخوتي، لكنّ المارّة الذين وجدوني أنزف من رأسي أخذوني إلى صيدليّة وهناك ضمّدوا لي رأسي. عدتُ إلى البناية فرأيتُ أنّ شققنا مُدمَّرة بالكامل. صُدمتُ. فقدتُ الوعي وسقطتُ أرضًا.  عندما استيقظتُ وجدتُ نفسي في مستشفى النجّار. أصبتُ بكسور وكدمات وأراد الأطبّاء إبقائي في المستشفى لكنّني طلبتُ العودة إلى المنزل للبحث عن أفراد عائلتي. عندما وصلتُ إلى هناك، كان هناك بعض الجيران، ومن بينهم صديقي أنس العديسي، وقد ساعدوني جميعًا في البحث عن أفراد العائلة. خلّصنا 11 مصابين وأخرجنا الكثير من الجثامين. في اليوم التالي فقط تمكّنا من إخراج جثامين أفراد عائلتي، زوجتي وطفليّ ووالديّ وإخوتي. كانت الجثامين مقطّعة.   كان المشهد فظيعًا، من المستحيل وصفه. حطّمتني رؤية طفليّ بهذا الحال. أنا في وضع فظيع. لا أعرف كيف سأتعامل مع ما حدث لي. لم يخطر ببالي أبدًا أن أصل إلى هذه الحالة. لم يخطر ببالي يومًا أنّني سأفقد عائلتي كلّها على هذا النحو. بقيتُ وحدي في هذا العالم. فقدتُ كلّ مَن كان مهمًّا في حياتي.  بعض القاصرين قتلوا في قصف المبنى قتل نتيجة القصف  49 شخص بينهم ما لا يقل عن 20 قاصرا وأصيب 11. هذا أسماء القتلى: نافذ عثمان العايدي (60 عامًا)   زوجته رباب محمود أبو سويلم (العايدي) (52 عامًا)   أولادهما: نبيل نافذ العايدي (21 عامًا)  صابرين نافذ العايدي (17 عامًا)  تالين نافذ العايدي (13 عامًا)  هاني محمّد العايدي (41 عامًا)   ابنه: معاذ هاني العايدي (5 أشهر)  سالي نبيل العايدي (21 عامًا)   نبيل علي العايدي (9 أعوام)  وسام علي العايدي (7 أعوام)  قيس علي العايدي (شهران)  غزل بلال العايدي (9 أعوام)  حلا بلال العايدي (7 أعوام)  نبيل بلال العايدي (5 أشهر)  مرام يوسف الكفراوي (26 عامًا)   عاهد محمود العايدي (8 أعوام)   رباب محمود العايدي (5 أعوام)  رناد محمّد العايدي (9 أعوام)  ريماس محمّد العايدي (16 عامًا)  آدم محمّد العايدي (13 عامًا)   إسراء خالد العايدي (33 عاماً)، زوجة علي  ريم خميس بركات (33 عامًا)، زوجة أحمد  يزن أحمد نبيل العايدي (14 عامًا)  مريم حمدي عبد القادر العايدي ـ عبد اللطيف  نبيل نافذ عثمان العايدي (19 عاماً)   عاهد محمود نافذ العايدي (8 أعوام)  رباب محمود نافذ العايدي (5 أعوام)  صابرين حسام بريكة (21 عاماً)، ابنة خالة  ريماس حسام بريكة (18 عاماً)  سوار أبو سليمان (19 عاماً)   حليمة الزين  رأفت الزين  محمود رأفت الزين  محمد رأفت الزين  أحمد رأفت الزين  سجى رأفت الزين  رغدة الزين، شقيقة رأفت  إيناس الزين، شقيقة رأفت  مازن محمد خليل دبور (44 عاماً)  خالد مازن دبور (17 عاماً)  محمد مازن دبور (15 عاماً)  عزّة مازن دبور (20 عاماً)  مي مازن دبور (16 عاماً)  رهف مازن دبور (8 أعوام)  أسامة محمد خليل دبور (38 عاماً)  صمود دبور (29 عاماً)، زوجة أسامة  ألين أسامة دبور (3 أعوام) دانا أسامة دبور (6 أعوام) شرف أسامة دبور (9 أعوام)   وثلاثة أشخاص آخرين لم يتم التعرف عليهم بعد، ويبدو أنهم من المارة الذين أصيبوا في الشارع. لقراءة إفادة ابن عم محمود محمّد نبيل العايدي. افادة عامر دبور الذي نزح مع عائلتة لمبنى عائلة العايدي.

A 34-year-old father of three from Beit Hanoun, recounted in a testimony he gave B’Tselem field researcher Muhammad Sabah on 14 November 2023 how he and his family were forced to flee their home:  Before the war, I lived in Beit Hanoun with my wife and our children: Mustafa (7), Elias (5) and Shaker (11 months). We lived in a building together with my four brothers. When the war started, we were all afraid of the bombings and decided to leave. There were 32 of us in total, mostly children. My nuclear family and I went to relatives of my wife’s in Jabalya Refugee Camp, but the next day, we decided to move again because there were constant bombings nearby.  We went to the a-Saftawi neighborhood west of Jabalya and stayed in a storage space that belongs to some relatives. But there was a bombing there, too. The sound was terrifying and very loud, and both we and the children were petrified. So the next day, 10 October 2023, we moved again, this time to an empty apartment belonging to relatives of mine in the neighborhood of al-Juneinah in Rafah. There were other families in the building, from the al-‘Aidy and Zein extended families. In our apartment there were about 20 of us – my family along with my brothers and their wives and children.  The situation in the apartment was better, even though there was no power and almost no water there either, and we could still hear the bombings. We decided to stay put because we had no choice. We had nowhere else to go.  On Monday, 23 October, at around 1:00 P.M., I went to get my hair cut and buy some things with my cousins Khaled al-‘Aidy (31), Ibrahim Abu Sala’h (26) and Ahmad Abu Sala’h (22). We went about 500 meters from the house. Meanwhile, my wife went out with my mother-in-law Zeinab (61), and my kids went to the neighbors, who are relatives of ours from the al-Kurd family. We reached the barbershop, and while we were sitting there, we heard a loud explosion. The whole place shook.  I immediately called my brother-in-law Ahmad, who’d gone to buy a portable charger, and he said the strike was very close, but he didn't know exactly where because everything was full of dust and smoke. A few minutes later, we realized the building we were sheltering in was the one bombed. We ran there and found it almost completely destroyed. I was in shock. The sight was horrifying. There were a lot of people there. We tried to move the rubble to look for people buried underneath. We took the people who weren’t injured to Rabe’ah al-‘Adawiyah School, west of Rafah.  We continued looking for injured and dead people. I lost my brother Mazen (44) and his children: ‘Azzah (20), Khaled (17), Mai (16), Muhammad (15), and Rahaf (8). I also lost my brother Ousamah (38), his wife Sumoud (29) and their children: Sharaf (9), Dana (6) and Alin (3).  My family and I moved to the school and stayed there for 10 days. It was very crowded, so we moved to another school, also in Rafah, which opened five days earlier and we thought would be less crowded. But when we got there, it was full, and we only found a small room. We put the seven women and 10 children from the family there. The young men and I stayed in the yard, out in the open. The conditions were tough. There was a mattress for every two people, and the children slept with their mothers.  Our situation is unbearable. It started raining today, and the nights are very cold. There is no food or water here, and we stand in line for everything. We get a jug of water that’s supposed to be enough for drinking, washing, dishwashing and laundry. I haven't showered or changed my clothes in more than 15 days. I don't have any clothes other than the ones I'm wearing. I lost all my clothes, and so did my wife and children. I also lost two mobile phones.  We’re surviving, but it feels soulless. We only hope this destructive war will end soon so we can go back to our homes and our lives, even though we don't even know if our homes are still there.  Read the testimony of Muhammad Nabil al-'Aidy Read the testimony of Mahmoud Nafez al-'Aidy, including a list of the people killed

A 34-year-old father of three from Beit Hanoun, recounted in a testimony he gave B’Tselem field researcher Muhammad Sabah on 14 November 2023 how he and his family were forced to flee their home:  Before the war, I lived in Beit Hanoun with my wife and our children: Mustafa (7), Elias (5) and Shaker (11 months). We lived in a building together with my four brothers. When the war started, we were all afraid of the bombings and decided to leave. There were 32 of us in total, mostly children. My nuclear family and I went to relatives of my wife’s in Jabalya Refugee Camp, but the next day, we decided to move again because there were constant bombings nearby.  We went to the a-Saftawi neighborhood west of Jabalya and stayed in a storage space that belongs to some relatives. But there was a bombing there, too. The sound was terrifying and very loud, and both we and the children were petrified. So the next day, 10 October 2023, we moved again, this time to an empty apartment belonging to relatives of mine in the neighborhood of al-Juneinah in Rafah. There were other families in the building, from the al-‘Aidy and Zein extended families. In our apartment there were about 20 of us – my family along with my brothers and their wives and children.  The situation in the apartment was better, even though there was no power and almost no water there either, and we could still hear the bombings. We decided to stay put because we had no choice. We had nowhere else to go.  On Monday, 23 October, at around 1:00 P.M., I went to get my hair cut and buy some things with my cousins Khaled al-‘Aidy (31), Ibrahim Abu Sala’h (26) and Ahmad Abu Sala’h (22). We went about 500 meters from the house. Meanwhile, my wife went out with my mother-in-law Zeinab (61), and my kids went to the neighbors, who are relatives of ours from the al-Kurd family. We reached the barbershop, and while we were sitting there, we heard a loud explosion. The whole place shook.  I immediately called my brother-in-law Ahmad, who’d gone to buy a portable charger, and he said the strike was very close, but he didn't know exactly where because everything was full of dust and smoke. A few minutes later, we realized the building we were sheltering in was the one bombed. We ran there and found it almost completely destroyed. I was in shock. The sight was horrifying. There were a lot of people there. We tried to move the rubble to look for people buried underneath. We took the people who weren’t injured to Rabe’ah al-‘Adawiyah School, west of Rafah.  We continued looking for injured and dead people. I lost my brother Mazen (44) and his children: ‘Azzah (20), Khaled (17), Mai (16), Muhammad (15), and Rahaf (8). I also lost my brother Ousamah (38), his wife Sumoud (29) and their children: Sharaf (9), Dana (6) and Alin (3).  My family and I moved to the school and stayed there for 10 days. It was very crowded, so we moved to another school, also in Rafah, which opened five days earlier and we thought would be less crowded. But when we got there, it was full, and we only found a small room. We put the seven women and 10 children from the family there. The young men and I stayed in the yard, out in the open. The conditions were tough. There was a mattress for every two people, and the children slept with their mothers.  Our situation is unbearable. It started raining today, and the nights are very cold. There is no food or water here, and we stand in line for everything. We get a jug of water that’s supposed to be enough for drinking, washing, dishwashing and laundry. I haven't showered or changed my clothes in more than 15 days. I don't have any clothes other than the ones I'm wearing. I lost all my clothes, and so did my wife and children. I also lost two mobile phones.  We’re surviving, but it feels soulless. We only hope this destructive war will end soon so we can go back to our homes and our lives, even though we don't even know if our homes are still there.  Read the testimony of Muhammad Nabil al-'Aidy Read the testimony of Mahmoud Nafez al-'Aidy, including a list of the people killed

A 34-year-old father of three from Beit Hanun told B'Tselem field researcher Muhammad Sabah on November 14, 2023, how he and his family were forced to flee their home: Before the war, I lived in Beit Hanun with my wife and our three children: Mustafa (7 years old), Elias (5 years old), and Shaker (11 months old). We lived in one building with my four brothers. When the war broke out, we were afraid of the bombing, so we all decided to leave. There were 32 of us, most of us children. My family moved to live with my wife's relatives in the Jabalya refugee camp, but the next day we decided to move elsewhere because the bombing was constantly taking place near our house. We moved to the al-Saftai neighborhood, west of Jabalya, and lived there in a storage room belonging to relatives. But there, too, the bombing was intense. The sounds were very loud and terrifying, so we and our children were scared. The next day, October 10, 2023, we moved again, this time to an empty apartment belonging to relatives in the Al-Janina neighborhood of Rafah. There were other people in the building, from the Al-Aidi family and the Zein family. I was in our apartment with my brothers, their wives, and their children. We were about twenty people in total. The situation in this apartment was better, although there was no electricity there, there was a water shortage, and we could hear the sounds of shelling. But we decided to stay because we had no other choice; there was nowhere else to go. On Monday, October 23, 2023, at around 1:00 PM, my brothers-in-law Khaled Al-Aidi (31 years old), Ibrahim Abu Sala'a (26 years old), and Ahmed Abu Sala'a (22 years old) and I went out to get our haircuts and buy some necessities. We moved about 500 meters from the house. At that time, my wife left with my mother-in-law Zeinab (61 years old), and my children went to the neighbors, who are relatives of ours from the Al-Kurd family. We arrived at the barber's shop and as we sat down, we heard the sound of very heavy bombing. The whole area shook. I immediately called my brother-in-law Ahmed, who had gone to buy a charger. He said the bombing was very close, but he didn't know exactly where because the whole area was filled with dust and smoke. A few minutes later, we realized that the building we were hiding in had been bombed. We ran there and found the house completely destroyed. I was in shock. The scene was terrifying. There were a lot of people there. We tried to remove the rubble to look for people buried underneath. We transferred those who weren't injured to Rabaa al-Adawiya School, west of Rafah. We kept searching the whole time for the injured and the dead. I lost my brother Mazen (44 years old) and his children: Azza (20 years old), Khaled (17 years old), Mohammed (15 years old), Mai (16 years old), and Rahaf (8 years old). I also lost my brother Osama (38 years old), his wife Samoud (29 years old), and their children Dana (6 years old), Alin (3 years old), and Sharaf (9 years old). My family and I moved to the school and stayed there for ten days. The overcrowding there was very severe, so we moved to another school, also in Rafah, which had opened five days earlier. We thought the overcrowding would be less, but when we arrived, the school was completely full. We only found one small room. We put seven women from the family and ten boys in it, while the young men and I stayed in the courtyard and sat under the open sky. The conditions were harsh. Each couple got one mattress, and the children slept with their mothers. Our situation was unbearable. Today it started to rain, and the weather at night is very cold. There is no food or water here, and we stand in line to get anything. We get a can of water, which should be enough for drinking, bathing, washing dishes, and washing clothes. For more than 15 days, I haven't showered or changed my clothes. I have no clothes other than the ones I'm wearing. I lost all my clothes and those of my wife and children. I also lost two cell phones. We are still alive, but without a soul. We just wish for this destructive war to end and for us to return to our homes and lives, even though we don't even know if our homes are still standing or not. Read the testimony of Mohammed Nafeth al-Aidi and the list of those killed. Read the testimony of Mohammed Nabil al-Aidi.

34 عاماً، أب لثلاثة، من سكان بيت حانون، روى لباحث بتسيلم الميداني محمد صباح، في 14.11.23، كيف اضطر إلى الهرب من منزله، مع عائلته:   قبل الحرب كنت أسكن في بيت حانون مع زوجتي وأولادنا الثلاثة: مصطفى (7 سنوات) والياس (5 سنوات) وشاكر (11 شهراً). كنا نسكن في بناية واحدة سوية مع أشقائي الأربعة. عندما اندلعت الحرب خفنا من القصف فقررنا، جميعاً، الرحيل. كنا 32 شخصاً بالمجموع، أغلبنا من الأطفال. انتقلت عائلتي إلى السكن مع أقارب زوجتي في مخيم جباليا للاجئين، لكن في اليوم التالي قررنا الانتقال إلى مكان آخر لأن القصف كان في منطقة البيت كل الوقت.    انتقلنا إلى حي السفطاي، غربي جباليا، وسكنا هناك في مخزن تابع لأقارب لنا. لكن هناك أيضاً كان القصف شديداً. الأصوات كانت قوية جداً ومرعبة فخفنا، نحن وأطفالنا. وفي اليوم التالي، 10.10.23 انتقلنا مرة أخرى وهذه المرة إلى شقة فارغة تابعة لأقارب لي في حي الجنينة في رفح. كان هنالك في البناية أشخاص آخرون، من عائلة العايدي ومن عائلة زين. في شقتنا كنت مع أشقائي ونسائهم وأولادهم، كنا بالمجموع نحو عشرين شخصاً.    الوضع في هذه الشقة كان أفضل، رغم أن هناك أيضاً لم تتوفر الكهرباء وكان نقص في المياه وكذلك سمعنا أصوات القصف. لكن قررنا البقاء لأنه لم يكن أمامنا خيار آخر، لم يكن هنالك أي مكان آخر يمكننا الذهاب إليه.     في يوم الإثنين الموافق 23.10.23 قرابة الساعة 13:00 خرجنا أنا وأصهاري خالد العايدي (31 عاماً) وإبراهيم أبو صلعة (26 عاماً) وأحمد أبو صلعة (22 عاماً) لقص شعورنا وشراء بعض الحاجيات. ابتعدنا نحو 500 متر عن المنزل. في ذلك الوقت خرجت زوجتي مع حماتي زينب (61 عاماً) وذهب أولادي إلى الجيران، الذين هم أقارب لنا من عائلة الكرد. وصلنا إلى الحلاق وحين جلسنا سمعنا صوت قصف شديد جداً. كل المنطقة ارتجت.   اتصلت على الفور بصهري أحمد الذي ذهب لشراء شاحن فقال إن القصف قريب جداً لكنه لم يعرف أين بالضبط لأن كل المنطقة كانت ممتلئة بالغبار والدخان. بعد ذلك بدقائق قليلة فهمنا أن البناية التي نختبئ فيها هي التي تعرضت للقصف. ركضنا إلى هناك فوجدنا البيت مدمراً تماماً. كنت مصدوماً. كان المشهد مرعباً. كان هناك الكثير من الناس. حاولنا رفع الأنقاض للبحث عن أشخاص دُفنوا تحتها. نقلنا الأشخاص الذين لم يصابوا إلى مدرسة رابعة العدوية، غربي رفح.    واصلنا كل الوقت البحث ن مصابين وشهداء. أنا فقدتُ شقيقي مازن (44 عاماً) وأولاده: عزة (20 سنة) وخالد (17 سنة) ومحمد (15 سنة) وماي (16 سنة) ورهف (8 سنوات). كما فقدت أيضاً شقيقي أسامة (38 سنة) وزوجته صمود (29 سنة) وأولادهما دانا (6 سنوات) وألين (3 سنوات) وشرف (9 سنوات).    انتقلنا أنا وعائلتي إلى المدرسة وبقينا هناك عشرة أيام. كان الاكتظاظ هناك شديداً جداً فانتقلنا إلى مدرسة أخرى، في رفح أيضاً، كان قد تم فتحها قبل ذلك بخمسة أيام واعتقدنا أن الاكتظاظ سيكون أخف، لكن حين وصلنا إلى هناك كانت المدرسة قد امتلأت تماماً ولم نجد سوى غرفة واحدة صغيرة أدخلنا فيها سبع نساء من العائلة وعشرة أولاد، بينما بقينا أنا والشبان من العائلة في الاحة وجلسنا تحت قبة السماء. كانت الظروف قاسية، كل شخصين حصلا على فرشة واحدة والأولاد ناموا مع أمهاتهم.    وضعنا غير محتمل. اليوم بدأ ينزل المطر والطقس في الليل بارد جداً. لا يوجد هنا لا غذاء ولا ماء ونحن نقف بالدور للحصول على أي شي. نحصل على تنكة مياه يجب أن تكفينا للشربـ للاستحمام، لجلي الأواني ولغسيل الملابس. منذ أكثر من 15 يوماً لم أستحم ولم أبدل ثيابي. ليس لدي أصاب ثياب غير هذه التي أرتديها. فقدت كل ملابسي وملابس زوجتي وأولادنا. فقدتُ أيضاً جهازيّ هاتف خلوي.    نحن لا نزال على قيد الحياة لكن بدون روح. نحن نتمنى فقط أن تنتهي هذه الحرب التدميرية وأن نعود إلى منازلنا وحياتنا، رغم أننا لا نعلم أصلاً إن كانت منازلنا ما زالت قائمة أم لا.   لقراءة إفادة محمد نافذ العايدي ولقائمة القتلى. لقراءة إفادة محمّد نبيل العايدي.

Residents of the Gaza Strip live in a humanitarian disaster zone. This entirely man-made disaster is a direct result of a policy employed by Israel, which, to this day, continues to dictate what daily life in Gaza looks like. This callous, unjustifiable policy sentences the nearly two million residents of the Gaza Strip to a life of abject poverty in near inhuman conditions no longer seen in the Western world. In testimonies collected by B'Tselem's field researchers, residents of the Gaza Strip describe their lives, the dreams they will not get to realize, the medical conditions they have no way of treating, the ongoing separation from family members and friends outside the Strip, and the unbearable suffering caused by their confinement to the Strip, with no hope for change. Read more >> I picked up my husband and carried him on my back. His body was limp from the injury and very heavy. There was no one to help me, and I had to carry him on my own. I walked for a bit, rested, and then continued. He was still bleeding. We got to my uncle’s house, about 50 meters from ours. [...] Suddenly, I noticed his left hand was shaking badly. I asked if he wanted a massage, but then I saw he was dead. I checked again—I wasn’t mistaken. He died right there, in my arms. ‘Azizah Qishtah ( 27 May 2025 ) [...] the military sent a quadcopter into the house and used a loudspeaker to order us to raise our hands. The quadcopter filmed us. Then soldiers came in and forced us to strip. [...] The soldiers even used [my son] ‘Abdallah as a human shield—they forced him to accompany them as they searched the house and then to tie up the other men. Then they tied him up and arrested him too. [...] they ordered us—just the women, at gunpoint—to walk to southern Gaza along the coastline. [...] We walked for two days. [...] Along the way, we saw dozens of bodies—women, children, men—lying on the beach, with dogs feeding on them. Some of the corpses had disintegrated from the saltwater. Quadcopters hovered overhead the whole time. Firyal Safi ( 26 April 2025 ) On 2 March 2025, the crossings were closed and food imports were banned. Goods gradually disappeared from the market, and now we can’t buy any food and there’s also no aid. [...] The war resumed on 18 March 2025 and we went back to a nightmare of killing, bombing, destruction and displacement. [...] For over six weeks, no food has entered the Gaza Strip. [...] Sometimes I find one or two pitas and that’s all we eat. We go to sleep hungry. We wake up hungry and terrified by bombings and the noise of aircraft. Adham Abu Naser ( 24 April 2025 ) In this brutal war, we’ve endured so much: killing, displacement, destruction, and hunger. But the hunger we’ve experienced in the past two months is on a different scale. The crossings are closed, and no goods are allowed into Gaza. This is another method of warfare the Israeli military uses against civilians in Gaza – starvation. My children beg me to get them meat or eggs, and I have to tell them there is none and I can’t. What crime have my children committed? Why must they starve? ‘Abdallah Shaqurah ( 23 April 2025 ) My youngest, ‘Az a-Din, cried a lot and kept saying, “I’m hungry.” It broke my heart to hear it, and I cried over his situation — but that was the situation for everyone. I explained to him that everyone was hungry and there was nothing I could do. [...] We didn’t get food package coupons because we weren’t living in a tent, so we had to pay insane prices for food. Two of my children, Layan and Mahmoud, came down with viral hepatitis and there was no treatment available. I couldn’t provide them with the healthy nutrition they needed to fight the illness. Hala Sha’sha’ah ( 22 April 2025 ) I was nine months pregnant and weighed only 55 kg because I was eating just one meal a day — lentils, fava beans or falafel. When I went to the hospital to give birth, the doctors couldn’t believe I was pregnant. My baby girl was born weighing only 2 kg due to the lack of food. Anwar Hamad ( 20 April 2025 ) Two months before the war broke out, we renovated the house and bought new furniture for the living room and the children’s bedrooms, to celebrate Najat’s high school graduation and our son’s admission to university. I took out a bank loan to pay for the renovations. About a month ago, we heard from neighbors and acquaintances that our home was completely destroyed. When we found out, it was a black day for all of us. The children cried—they had so many memories and beloved things they left behind. I fell into depression. I felt like I was back to square one, that we have nothing. Khader Abu Diyah ( 25 February 2025 ) On 28 December, the Israeli military bombed the school and two classrooms where people were staying were hit. I went into one of the classrooms and saw about eight dead bodies, body parts, injured people and a lot of blood. Suddenly, I heard crying and saw a little baby, just a few months old. I picked him up and left the classroom. I saw people running in panic and screaming. I didn’t know if his parents were killed or injured. I stood there waiting for someone to come to me, but everyone rushed out of the classroom and passed me by, and no one came up to me. The military ordered everyone at the school to evacuate and go to the southern part of the Gaza Strip immediately. My family and I left the school, taking the unknown baby with us. I decided to call him Hamudah Rasem Nabhan ( 17 February 2025 ) My mother said that the war was over and that she wanted me and my fiancée to get married already. She said she would hold the most beautiful wedding for me. The next day, the occupation shattered all of my dreams, and from happy wishes I went into deep mourning. On Sunday, 16 January 2025, the Israeli military bombed our house directly, and everyone inside was killed: my mother, my brother Tariq, his wife ‘Ula, their three children who survived the previous bombing – Muhammad, Rital and little Ahmad, my sister Shirin, 43, and her two children – ‘Alaa, 10, and Diaa, 8. I had been looking forward so much to going back to Jabalya and reuniting with them after a year apart, to celebrating with them. But the occupation killed that dream, too. It hit me so hard, and all I wanted was to die to escape the pain. 'Amer a-Sultan ( 10 February 2025 ) The children wanted to play next to their father and I let them [...] I heard them laughing and playing. My husband looked up at the sky, at the surveillance planes, and was worried about the level of noise they were making. Suddenly, I heard a huge blast [...] I immediately turned around to look at them, but all I saw was black smoke. I screamed, “My husband and kids!” and ran to them. I found my daughter Raghad covered in blood, lying on her back. I shouted, “Raghad!” Raghad!” I was shocked. Then I found my husband ‘Abdallah. His clothes were like black coal. Then I saw my son Hamzah. His head was covered in blood. [...] They were all dead. Aya Hasunah a-Susi ( 01 February 2025 ) Ahmad Matar ( 22 January 2025 ) I found myself under the rubble. My mother’s sister Nidaa, who was next to me, died right before my eyes. I stayed trapped under the rubble for nearly an hour before they got me out and took me to a neighbor’s house. My father, who was hit by shrapnel all over his body and mostly in the pelvis, came with me. My brother Ahmad was removed from under the rubble before me, half an hour after the bombing. My mother, who got burns on her hand and had shrapnel wounds and bruises all over her body, went with him to the hospital, but she returned after half an hour and told me he had passed away. My little brother, ‘Abd a-Rahman, was injured in his leg, and my uncle had broken ribs and vertebrae in his spine, as well as head wounds that needed stitches. [...] That same day, they pulled the bodies of my maternal uncle, his wife, and my maternal aunts from under the rubble. They were buried shortly after, and I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye to them. In the evening, they also got my grandfather’s body out. Shahd Salem ( 22 January 2025 ) I thought my husband and children were just injured, but when I arrived, I found out that my two sons, Suliman and Mustafa, had been killed and were already in the morgue. I was in shock and couldn’t face going to see them. When I asked about my husband and Malak, they told me they were both dead too and their bodies dismembered. My husband’s body stayed in the ambulance for two days, because the ambulance couldn’t reach the hospital until the army withdrew from the area. Asmaa al-Masri ( 19 January 2025 ) Mu’in Abu al-’Eish, A Paramedic ( 18 January 2025 ) We’re freezing cold in the tent and we have no way to heat it, because there’s no electricity and we can’t afford to buy firewood—it's too expensive. We don’t have enough blankets and winter clothes, either. At night, packs of stray dogs wander between the tents, and my children are very scared. Life in the tent was bad enough in the summer. My wife had headaches the whole summer because of the heat, and we suffered from insects and rodents. Bilal a-Raqab ( 12 January 2025 ) During the ceasefire early on in the war, I came back from the market to the school we were staying at, and suddenly saw Muhammad at the school. He arrived through the Netzarim checkpoint. I started screaming loudly, hugged him, and kissed his injured leg. Muhammad held me close and cried. It was a huge surprise. I didn’t know if I would see him again [...] In early April, I lost contact with Muhammad [...] Later, someone told me that he’d been killed. Jamalat Wadi ( 04 January 2025 ) Just before I dozed off, Rana [my wife] nursed ‘Aishah and checked to see she was okay. The baby slept with us.  We woke up at 6:00 A.M. I picked ‘Aishah up and she was like a block of ice, cold and stiff and blue, and her eyes were open. I held her in utter shock. She wasn’t breathing. ‘Adnan al-Qassas ( 31 December 2024 ) Hadil [my wife] woke up early in the morning and went to the bathroom. When she came back to the tent, she checked on the children and found ‘Ali frozen. He wasn’t breathing, and his face was blue. She started screaming and calling me: “Wake up, look at ‘Ali. I found him frozen, with a blue face.” I started screaming and crying and said: ‘Dear God, don’t take him from me.’ ‘Issam Saqer ( 30 December 2024 ) Ahmad al-‘Askari ( 23 October 2024 ) Ahmad Abu Foul ( 17 October 2024 ) The soldiers showed us a path to follow, but snipers were shooting indiscriminately there and my mother was hit in the leg. They also injured another woman and killed two of our neighbors. We carried my mother, and we all found shelter in a storage room that was still standing in a nearby house that was bombed. Bilal and I tore up our shirts and tried to dress her wound to stop the bleeding. Thirteen of us sat there in the storage room all night, listening to the bombings and shelling. Later, we stole into ruined homes nearby to look for food and blankets, but we couldn’t find anything in the rubble. Yaser Abu Rukbeh ( 07 October 2024 ) At the end of December 2023, my brother, Myasarah al-‘Ajouri (30) disappeared. We waited two days, and he still didn’t come. We waited two weeks, but Myasarah didn’t come back. After the army withdrew from the town and people returned, we went to look for him. We didn’t find him at his barbershop, and when we reached the house he rented, we found it had been bombed. We don’t know if he was there. We also searched in hospitals and reported him missing to the Red Cross but have been unable to get any information. Safaa al-Ghandur ( 03 October 2024 ) My nephew Mu’in [10], the sole survivor from his family, cried hysterically when he said goodbye to his mother and siblings. He was shocked and couldn’t believe they were all gone and he was left alone. Mu’in is broken. He keeps asking about his mother and his siblings. He tells me, “My father left us. Then my mother and brothers left me. What did I stay alive for?” I have no words to comfort him. Muamen ‘Awad ( 28 September 2024 ) When I woke up, I found myself buried in a pile of debris and rubble. Right before that, while I was asleep, I dreamt that I was walking and a missile fell on me. In the dream, my father, my wife, my son, my sister, and a mass of people were walking ahead of me. The sky wasn’t like the sky we know. Two people dressed in white stopped me and said, “You’re not going with them.” I stopped, and my wife and son kept walking. A few meters ahead of me, they turned and waved goodbye ‘Ali al-Nweiri ( 21 September 2024 ) On Thursday, 16 November 2023, we made dinner and sat down to eat. My son Mu’in was sleeping in the next room. When we finished eating, I went into the room where Mu’in was sleeping, along with my husband, our son ‘Imad, and my husband’s sister Ilham, 33. We didn’t hear any planes or bombs, but suddenly, the house came crashing down on us. [...] The next day, I was told ‘Imad had been killed. I sat next to Mu’in for four days while he was in intensive care. [...] I lost Mu’in on 20 November 2023. (Jihan Swelem-'Aweidah talked to B'Tselem in August 2024 about losing her little boys in a bombing. On 10 October, she was killed in another bombing). Jihan Swelem-’Aweidah ( 07 August 2024 ) The dog pounced on Muhammad and bit him in the chest. Muhammad was very frightened and started screaming at the dog: “Get away! Get off me! Get away!” The dog didn’t back off. It grabbed Muhammad’s left arm below the shoulder [...] Muhammad was already bleeding heavily from his arm. It was a terrible sight and we couldn’t do anything about it. We tried to shout to the soldiers that we were civilians, that they should get the dog away from Muhammad, that Muhammad had a disability, but they paid no attention to us. [...] Four of them pointed their guns at Muhammad. Another group of soldiers pointed their guns at us and forced us to get down on our knees. They ordered us to shut up. [...] The soldiers counted us and then ordered us to go downstairs. My mother said, “Let me take Muhammad because he’s sick,” but they refused. That was the last time we saw Muhammad. We left him bleeding on the couch. Sarah Bhar ( 20 July 2024 ) I filmed people holding bleeding children in their arms, a guy carrying half the body of another guy, women running madly on the street with their heads uncovered, people falling on the ground because of the shooting and mayhem. I fell down, too, and two guys and a woman fell next to me. I saw children on the street without their families, and a child alone who was killed. Safinaz a-Loh ( 09 June 2024 ) The pediatric ward was full of patients – kids with cancer, hepatitis and many other illnesses. The hallways were crowded with sick and wounded people and the people staying with them. I have no words to describe what went on there. The whole time Nabil was treated in the hospitals in the Gaza Strip, he never got chemotherapy. Aya Kahil ( 03 June 2024 ) A doctor from al-’Awda Hospital called and told us the army had ordered all doctors over the age of 40 to go out to the hospital yard in their underwear. He said that Uncle ‘Adnan went down and was arrested. [...] All we knew was that Uncle ‘Adnan was in Ofer Prison and was being held under the Unlawful Combatants Law. Then, someone who was released from prison told us my uncle was not in the barracks [a nickname for the Sde Teiman facility] but in another detention facility. Then, before it was announced on the news, my father found out Uncle ‘Adnan had died in prison. Ruzan al-Bursh ( 29 May 2024 ) Ahlam a-Taluli ( 27 May 2024 ) I was praying in the shack when a massive explosion shook everything. The shack collapsed, and I felt something hit my back. Salma’s leg was badly injured, and Ahmad was buried under the rubble. Neighbors rushed to pull us out Muhammad and Hassan al-‘Ijleh ( 21 May 2024 ) One day, during the siege on the hospital, my uncle Amir and his children were sitting next to us. His son Karim, 3, was sitting on his lap when suddenly a bullet hit him in the head. He started bleeding, but there was no medical staff there. His mother held him. We bandaged his head with gauze, and then, even though it was dangerous outside, my uncle took him to the UNRWA al-Fakhura clinic. They told him Karim’s condition was very serious and he had to take him to al-Ma’amadani Hospital in Gaza. He didn’t manage to get him there, and at 6:00 P.M., Karim died. Shams Mhanna ( 21 May 2024 ) My daughter Afnan said: “Father. Where’s father? He didn’t wake up!” I shone a flashlight on my husband and saw he’d been hit in the head by shrapnel and was dying. My daughter Shaimaa was also hit in the head, and was semi-conscious. My sister-in-law Iman, 45, was screaming, “My leg! My leg!” When I tried to help her, another tank shell was fired at us and killed my three daughters, Afnan, Duha and Shaimaa, my son Mahmoud, and my nephew, whose name was also Mahmoud, 19. Samia ‘Abd a-Latif ‘Abd a-Ghafur ( 20 May 2024 ) [the] soldiers ordered us on loudspeakers to go out to the street. They ordered the men to stand facing the wall and forced us to strip down to our underwear. There were almost 300 of us there, naked. They forced us to kneel and tied our hands and feet with zip ties. They kept us like that for four hours, cursing us and our mothers all the time. They beat us on our heads and other parts of our body with their guns, and kicked us in the face with their military boots. The kicking made me bleed. Muhammad Shams ( 19 May 2024 ) Until the war, I lived with my husband and our nine children in the Tel a-Za’tar neighborhood in Jabalya Refugee Camp. But after October 7, the camp became a war zone. There were bombings and bodies everywhere. Families were bombed inside their homes, children, old people and women. UNRWA schools that were turned into IDP camps were also bombed. The Israeli army ordered us to move to places that were supposed to be safe and then bombed them. Here, in the northern Gaza Strip, nowhere is safe anymore. Asmahan Mahmoud a-Taluli ( 19 May 2024 ) On 16 November 2023, at around 2:00 A.M., I woke up to the sound of my husband shouting and calling for me. I heard him say that the station had been bombed. I was shocked because I hadn’t heard the explosion. All I could see around me was fire and dust. I could hear voices but couldn’t see anyone. I called out my children’s names. My husband started pulling our son Muhammad out to rescue him. I called for Malak. Then ambulances arrived. I couldn’t walk, so they carried me to an ambulance. While I was in the ambulance, the paramedics told me that my children were fine except for Malak. They told me she had been killed. I cried and screamed. Rabab al-Hito ( 19 May 2024 ) I went into our tent and discovered everyone who was in it had been hurt or killed. My three sisters, Afnan, 16, Shaimaa, 15, Duha, 13, my brother Mahmoud, 16, and my cousin Mahmoud, 19, who tried to call an ambulance earlier - they were all killed. My uncle’s wife was hurt in the leg and her son, Ahmad, 15, was hurt in the right thigh. It was a horrifying scene. It was all I could do to hold it together and not break down there. I couldn’t take care of the wounded because I was afraid they’d shell us again. I had to just abandon them. ‘Abd a-Rahman ‘Abd a-Ghafur ( 12 May 2024 ) The doctors decided to amputate my leg. They said otherwise I would develop sepsis and could die. They also discovered my blood sugar was not balanced, which was probably why I was thirsty all the time. They operated on me again, and when I woke up, I didn’t have a leg. It was a terrible feeling, I can’t describe it. After the amputation, the nurses changed my bandages every day, without anesthesia because there were no anesthetics. I screamed in pain Alaa Rif’at al-Kurd ( 08 May 2024 ) My son Yusef had a curtain wrapped around his neck. He started choking, and I helped him get it off so he could breathe. Karim, Alaa's son, was next to me. His head was covered in blood and he was unconscious. I tried to wake him up. My phone was on me, so I called my mother-in-law and told her the house had been bombed and that we were under the rubble. I wasn’t injured, thank God. I called out to Bushra but didn’t hear her voice. I heard my son Yusef’s voice for a moment, and then I didn’t hear him anymore.  Amal Rif’at al-Kurd ( 08 May 2024 ) My face was blue and my whole body was swollen. I was in very bad pain and felt as if my right hand and leg were cut off. I was taken by ambulance to Abu Yusef a-Najar Hospital in Rafah, and all the way I called for my children and told them my children were under the rubble. When I got to the hospital, I found my brothers there and asked again and again about my children. Everyone told me the children were alive and would be rescued just as I was. Only later that day did they tell me that my husband, my children, my brothers-in-law Shadi and Ousamah, and Ousamah’s family, all were killed. Suhair Dabur ( 03 May 2024 ) Maram was killed about ten days after her baby and was buried without us being able to say goodbye to her. She got married about a year and a half before the war. She was a business management graduate, and she worked in the field. She was a vivacious person, with a sweet temper and a beautiful laugh. When Yumana was born, she was so happy. Madlin Shaqlieh-Sawalhi ( 22 April 2024 ) I felt paralyzed. Later, I found out that I was hit by one bullet in the neck and another in the back. [My sister] Mahasen tried again and again to drag me away. After half an hour, my daughter Malak showed up with a white flag. She also tried to shield me with her body. Then my cousin Fatimah, also came there with a white flag. Hasnaa Abu Hasnah ( 14 April 2024 ) The hospital care was very limited, but thankfully, the birth was easy and I went home the same day. Taymaa was born small, weighing less than three kilos. I had nothing to eat after the birth, and I didn’t have enough milk to breastfeed her. I couldn’t find formula to supplement her diet. I was very afraid for her. Wafaa al-Kurd ‘Issa ( 11 April 2024 ) I grabbed my father by the legs and dragged him with great difficulty out of the line of fire. He was hit by three bullets: one in the chest, one in the stomach, and the third, which caused the worst injury, was in the left hip. His intestines were exposed. I got a clean piece of cloth and put it on the wound. He told me to leave him, as if he knew he was going to die and there was no way to save him. Asmaa Hindi ( 01 April 2024 ) My husband was a vegetable vendor and once in a while he managed to sell some vegetables, and that's how we made a living. On 2 November 2023, my husband went out with his cousin Zaki a-Rifi and some others to try and sell vegetables so we could buy necessities, especially diapers for Maher. I tried to persuade him not to go because I was afraid, there were bombings around us all the time. But he insisted and said they were civilians that weren’t endangering anyone. Zaki came back after 20 minutes, badly injured in his hand, and said my husband was killed. Riham a-Rifi ( 26 March 2024 ) I was taken to an iron cage where I stayed with other female detainees for 11 days. My hands were in zip ties the whole time. We were given very little food. I barely even ate that so I wouldn’t have to go to the bathroom, which was far away and didn’t have a tap. If you were menstruating, you got one pad. In the bathroom, we helped each other. There was no shower, either. There were male and female soldiers around us all the time, and they wouldn’t let us sleep. They would turn on the light, turn on speakers, eat in front of us and swear at us. Nadiah al-Hilu ( 18 March 2024 ) We were taken out of the cage and dragged to a bus, like animals. The bus started driving and the whole way, the female soldiers guarding us wouldn’t let us lift our heads. They swore at us, hit us on our hands and took pictures of us. After some time, the bus stopped. We were taken off it and each asked our name and photographed. A female soldier grabbed us by the head and ordered us to kiss the Israeli flag. Another female soldier bashed my head against the side of the bus. Nabilah Miqdad ( 16 March 2024 ) There are nine of us in the tent, without water, electricity, medications, and almost no food. Life here feels like a disaster. We’re living in the desert, in conditions unfit for human habitation. It’s hard to get potable water or even water for cleaning. There is no way to bathe, and we don’t do laundry either. We’re very cold because we have no warm clothes. There are insects everywhere here - mosquitoes and flies, and reptiles too. We’ve all lost a lot of weight and feel weak and exhausted all the time. We barely sleep at night. Fatimah Baker ( 16 March 2024 ) Relatives told me the Israeli military had invaded a-Zeitoun, where my husband was staying. They said he went to stay with his uncle Samir and that soldiers entered the house and arrested Samir, seven of his sons and my husband. Until yesterday, I hadn't heard any news from Shadi. Then, one of his cousins, Jawad, 17, who was arrested and released yesterday, called me. He told me that on the day of the arrest, the soldiers took all the men out of the house and ordered them to strip, and told all the women to go south. He told me that they tied the hands of all the men behind their backs, blindfolded them with bits of cloth, beat them, and poured cold water on them. Shadi was still injured, and Jawad said the soldiers beat him, too. Hala ‘Obeid ( 14 March 2024 ) I lost my cousins and my neighbor, all of them my friends, just to get some flour and canned goods after months of starving. The hunger here is real and extreme, and we have no other way to get food. We go there and risk our lives because it's the only option, but when you go, you don't know if you'll come back. Now I don't know if I'm capable of going there again. On the other hand, when the flour runs out at home, I won't have any choice, despite the danger Isma’il al-Ghandur ( 12 March 2024 ) I was on the balcony with my two grandchildren, Julia and Majd. The rest of the family were inside, getting ready for lunch. Suddenly, I felt my body flying through the air, and then I fell on the floor. Julia and Majd crashed to the floor, too, and there was dust and debris everywhere. There was a lot of smoke too, and I could smell fire. My shoulder felt dislocated, and I couldn’t move or get up on my feet. Then I started feeling like the building was collapsing underneath me, until the third floor became the first floor. Hanan Saleh ( 07 March 2024 ) We buried Yazan that day in the cemetery here in Rafah. Losing him is terrible. I look at the mattress he slept on until he was hospitalized, and all I can feel is grief and deep sorrow. I always tried to give Yazan everything he needed and take care of him, but the conditions here are so difficult now that I had nothing to give him any more. The deadly hunger here killed him. Sharif al-Kafarneh ( 06 March 2024 ) Alma talks about her family non-stop, about her brothers and sister. She talks about how she saw her brother under the rubble. She keeps asking to go back there to look for her family members under the rubble. We told her there was nothing to go back to. I even took her to a place where you can see the northern Gaza Strip from far away, so she would see the destruction and understand that it’s impossible to go back there right now. Sami al-Hadad ( 02 March 2024 ) We took the rubble off the bodies by hand. We did all the work with our hands and with the help of some light equipment. In the end, we managed to get out the bodies of Muhammad, my wife Islam, my father, my two sisters and my aunt. I did it emotionlessly. I can’t feel anything anymore, and that made it possible for me to get them all out. After that, I buried them next to each other in al-Falujah cemetery in Jabalya R.C. Ahmad Abu Foul ( 01 March 2024 ) Since then, I've been alone in the world. I lost my family. I have no home and no future. I cry every day. I go to sleep alone and wake up lonely and lost. I came back from Turkey a month before the war started because of my family. My mother really wanted me to get married. We hoped the war would end and we’d go back to our lives, but they killed my mother, my father and everyone else in my family. They killed everyone. That's how I became an orphan, alone. My life is black now. I don't think I'll ever get over the trauma. Ibrahim Hasunah ( 29 February 2024 ) I have no family left. We were just starting out as a family. We were happy together. On 13 October, we celebrated our first wedding anniversary. All I have left are our two wedding rings, which I’m keeping. I have no other mementos. All the photos and videos are gone. Our clothes, my wife’s and daughter’s belongings, all gone. My house in Gaza City was completely destroyed by the bombing. It was bombed just one day before I left the city. All my memories with my family are gone forever. Hazem al-Madhun ( 28 February 2024 ) we heard a loud explosion and the roof of the building and its pillars collapsed on us. Everything was dark and full of dust. Hanan was still holding my hand when a block of concrete fell on her, and I couldn’t move. I screamed out to the children and only Ibrahim answered. He said, “Dad, I’m going to die.” I told him to recite the Shahadatain. I shouted for help, hoping someone would hear me and save my wife and children. I called out to Hanan, but she didn’t respond. Shadi Fatayer ( 27 February 2024 ) I haven’t showered in ten days because there isn’t always water and when there is we save it to clean the toilets. A six-liter jug of water, which is not really drinkable, costs five shekels (~ USD 1.4). That’s a lot of money for us. My son Yusef, 17, walks about a kilometer to a place where you can fill up water and waits in line for hours just to fill two jugs for which you have to pay. We use one for drinking, even though it is not clean water, and the other for bathing. The children are still wearing the same clothes they wore when we left home and we don’t have enough water to wash them. Khamis al-A’araj ( 20 February 2024 ) Because of the hunger, my wife can barely nurse our nine-month-old son, Yamen, and baby formula is nowhere to be found either. A little while ago, we managed to buy a kilo of dates for NIS 40 (~ USD X), which has been helping us survive. We live off what we manage to get - a little rice, a little corn we ground, and also barley, which is meant for feeding farm animals. The price of barley has also gone crazy. Now even the barley ran out and people have started grinding bird and rabbit food. But there is not much of that either. There is no food for humans or for animals. Ibrahim al-Ghandur ( 19 February 2024 ) I miss our old life, before the war, without all the bombings and killings. We’re exhausted. We’re broken and have no strength left. In one of the bombings, I lost a lot of people form my family and my parents were spared by luck alone. Now, the military might invade Rafah and force us out again. I don't know where else we can run. We’ve been displaced four times. I don’t know what fate awaits us. Amneh al-Masri ( 18 February 2024 ) Hanan Abu Rabi’ ( 13 February 2024 ) Nasmah al-Jamal ( 11 February 2024 ) I was kept there with my hands in metal handcuffs day and night, and sometimes my legs, too. Sometimes they hung me by one hand and left me like that for three or four hours until I fainted. I couldn’t move the other hand because my shoulder must have been broken from the beatings when the platinum came out [...] I was taken to the interrogation room about 5 or 6 times and asked about my friends and neighbors and whether I had undergone military training. All they gave us to eat was a slice of bread, a cucumber and a small piece of cheese. Now and then we got some tuna fish and a bit of water to drink. ‘Abd al-Qader Tafesh ( 07 February 2024 ) I’ve started having diarrhea and vomiting, and my body has become weak. About a month ago, I started getting stomach aches and swelling, and tingling in different parts of my body. I started throwing up everything I ate, even the water I drank. After this went on for about two weeks, I went to the Kuwaiti hospital here in Rafah. They ran tests and diagnosed me with hepatitis. The doctor said it was due to lack of hygiene and told me to be more careful and also to eat healthy. He said there was no cure and it would go away on its own if I was careful. Ahmad Abu ‘Aydah ( 30 January 2024 ) They put me in a jeep again, with other detainees, and transferred us to a large structure that had a rough floor, like concrete, and a tin roof. The sides were open and it was very, very cold. There were a lot of detainees there. When we got there, they blindfolded us and ordered us to kneel down on our knees. I was held there for 35 days, and all that time we were not allowed to move or speak to each other. We ate and slept with our hands tied and our eyes covered. Muhammad Abu Marsah ( 25 January 2024 ) Every day, the soldiers ordered us to sit on our knees from 5:00 A.M. until the evening. We ate and drank with our hands tied in front of us. If we looked sideways, or even spoke to one another, they would punish us and make us stand with our hands raised for about three hours. On top of that, they didn’t let us go to the bathroom when we asked, and they didn’t always let us pray, either. Mahmoud Abu Qadus ( 23 January 2024 ) The whole way, the children cried from hunger, thirst, and fear at the sight of the bodies in the streets. We walked to a military checkpoint south of a-Zeitun neighborhood, along with a lot of other people who were carrying white flags. When we got to the checkpoint, the soldiers swore at us over loudspeakers: “Go, animals.” We kept walking until the entrance to a-Nuseirat Refugee Camp. I suffered from severe pain in my legs the whole way, because I have a herniated disc and had surgery two months before the war. Rami Riyad Abu Dalfeh ( 20 January 2024 ) I was supposed to go back to Tel Hashomer on 8 October for 30 days of biological treatment, two pills a day, to prevent a relapse, and for a pelvic joint transplant on 10 October. Then came the Hamas attack and the war began. Since then, I haven’t been able to go to the hospital and haven’t received the treatment, because the medication isn’t available in Gaza. I’m very stressed and afraid that the cancer will return. I’m not under observation, not getting my treatment and can’t go to the hospital. Majed a-Satari ( 19 January 2024 ) Maryam Barud ( 19 January 2024 ) They blindfolded me with a piece of cloth and handcuffed me in front with white zip ties.There were six of us girls. One of the girls was in pain. The soldiers asked me to translate what she was saying into English, and I translated that she thought she’d miscarried. One of the soldiers said, ‘Oh my God.’ A doctor came in and covered her with a blanket. She was told to put on shoes, so she wouldn’t be so cold. The soldiers told us to sleep, but it was too cold and we were lying handcuffed on rocks, so we weren’t really able to. A. D., A pharmacy student ( 17 January 2024 ) The shelling grew worse and I was worried about Adham [my son] and Diab [my nephew], so I went out looking for them. On the way, I was hit in the hand by a shot from an Israeli drone. I heard Adham and Diab shouting for help, but there was heavy shelling and I couldn’t reach them, even though they were about five meters away from me. Sami ‘Awwadallah Baker ( 17 January 2024 ) Nidal Sharaf ( 07 January 2024 ) After the war started, my milk dwindled and I could barely nurse Alma anymore. I had to get formula and give her two bottles a day. At first she did okay on the formula, but then we couldn't get that brand anymore, and when we switched brands she didn’t respond well [...] She’s lost weight, she coughs a lot, and has diarrhea and vomits. Sometimes she runs a high fever. Malak Abu al-Kheir (Dabash) ( 05 January 2024 ) A few days ago, I took Wisam to the doctor here in the camp. He prescribed eight rounds of inhalation, one a day. I took Wisam to the European Hospital east of Khan Yunis, and he got one round of inhalation. Then we came back to the IDP camp. I didn’t want to stay there because I was afraid the hospital would be bombed, so he didn’t get the rest of the treatment. Riwaa Miqdad ( 05 January 2024 ) They kept me lying on the ground in our garden for about half an hour. Then they took me like that, naked, to another house in the neighborhood, about 150 meters from my house. They took my photo and gave me a number (058793). Farid ‘Amer ( 01 January 2024 ) In the evening, they took me and about 15 other women they arrested to another place. They told us we were in an Israeli military detention facility. Every time I moved, I got hit on the head. Every time I heard soldiers’ voices, I was afraid I’d get hit again. They kept cocking their weapons to scare us. Every time I heard that, I recited the “shahadatein” because I was sure they were going to shoot me. Our hands were tied in zip ties the whole time. Nihal al-Ghandur Salah ( 31 December 2023 ) We’ve been here for a month and a half now, and we’re still 32 people in one tent. We’re very cold and have almost no winter clothes. We sit close to each other to keep warm. Some people in the family have no shoes, and every few people share a pair of flip-flops. The crowding is unbearable, and there is absolutely no privacy. It’s always noisy. All of this makes the stress worse. Nur al-Hilu ( 31 December 2023 ) All my dreams are gone. My sisters were killed, my home was bombed. The wedding dresses and my gold jewelry are under the rubble. The Israeli army left me with nothing. No hope for happiness. It took away every sweet thing in my life. Our lives are terrible now. I cry all the time over my sisters, over the situation, over the hopelessness of it all. Nihal a-Najar ( 24 December 2023 ) +1 Muhammad Lubad ( 24 December 2023 ) Manar Lubad-Miqdas ( 24 December 2023 ) On 17 November, we set out on foot at 7:30 A.M. and started walking. At 8:30, we reached the Netzarim checkpoint. The soldiers ordered us to raise our IDs in the air and walk slowly, without turning our heads left or right. There were crowds of people, so I tied my children’s hands to mine with a kaffiyeh so they wouldn’t get lost. The conduct at the checkpoint was degrading. The soldiers forced us to stand for hours, without moving or sitting down. Only at 1:30 P.M. did they allow us to move on and cross the electronic gate at the entrance to the checkpoint. Alaa al-Kurd ( 30 November 2023 ) Taher al-‘Azayzeh ( 30 November 2023 ) Sahar Abu Suliman ( 26 November 2023 ) +1 Rami a-Sheikh Khalil ( 25 November 2023 ) We could barely contact my mother and brother, who stayed behind in a-Shati, because the communication networks weren’t functioning. It was very, very stressful for me. I managed to get them on the phone just once, after dozens of attempts, and spoke with both of them. I heard bombings in the background. I asked them to leave the camp so they wouldn't be killed, but my mother said she couldn't walk and that “Our fate is in God's hands.”  Ghadah Abu Tabikh ( 23 November 2023 ) I was detained like that for 23 days. Those were the worst days of my life, especially at Ofer Prison. I endured humiliation, beatings, shouting, cursing, scolding, hunger, thirst and lack of sleep. I was scared all the time. I was afraid for myself and also for my wife and our children and for my brothers and their families, in Gaza, especially after the interrogator told me my family had been bombed. I thought they were all dead. It was constant uncertainty, and it was very difficult.   Muhammad al-Jamal ( 17 November 2023 ) I’m a general practitioner at the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. On Sunday morning, 15 Oct. 2023, an ambulance came to take me to the hospital because it was too dangerous to get there any other way. Before I left, I went into the room where the kids were sleeping and looked at them, without waking them. It was the last time I saw my nine-year-old son Fadel alive. ‘Issam Da’ur ( 15 November 2023 ) ‘Amer Dabur ( 14 November 2023 ) Three days ago, we decided to move to Salah al-Din School in a-Rimal. It was very crowded, so we just sat on the floor. We slept sitting up and stood in line for everything -– to go to the bathroom, fill up water, get food. On 10 Nov., the school came under fire so we moved to the YMCA building. With us here are about 200 other people. There are long lines to use the toilet and shower, and not enough food and water. Hiyam al-Bitar ( 13 November 2023 ) ‘Alaa Abu Zeid ( 13 November 2023 ) Now we’re at a-Shifaa Hospital. A few days ago, the Israeli military shelled the courtyard and people were killed and injured. Then they hit the hospital’s solar panels and the surgical ward. There was massive gunfire around the hospital, and people sheltering here were hit. After that, some of the people who were sheltering here left. The dead bodies stayed in the courtyard and it’s too dangerous to go get them in order to bury them. Bashir Rizeq ( 13 November 2023 ) A Mitsubishi jeep driving about 100 meters ahead of me was hit by a shell and veered right. I pulled over behind it and saw a man get out. I got out of my car and ran over to them. Inside the car, I saw some injured people and a man and a woman who were dead. [...] I drove them to Shuhadaa al-Aqsa Hospital [...] On the way, the woman and the girl blacked out... Thu al-Fiqar Sweirjo ( 04 November 2023 ) Mahmoud Nafez al-’Aidy ( 30 October 2023 ) Children here are getting sick because it’s impossible to maintain hygiene, and maybe because of the poor quality of the water we buy. A lot of people are suffering from stomach aches and diarrhea. Abu al-Majd ( 24 October 2023 ) Muhammad Nabil al-‘Aidy ( 24 October 2023 ) In the morning, in Rafah, I went from bakery to bakery until I found the shortest line. I stood there from 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. and managed to buy a bag of 30-40 small pitas. I came back exhausted after five hours of standing in line, terrified, hearing bombings all around. Kamal Abu al-Fahem ( 23 October 2023 ) We were given food and water for the first time after about three days. We stand in long lines every day to get two small pitas, half a tin of canned meat and some water for the day. The queues are rough and exhausting. I could barely get us blankets. Muhammad a-Najar ( 23 October 2023 ) I sleep in the yard and my wife and daughters sleep in a room. Some have mattresses and others only blankets on the floor. There are a lot of people in the yard, because there isn’t enough space inside. If it becomes cold and rainy, I don't know where we’ll go. Abu ‘Othman ( 23 October 2023 ) There are about 40,000 people here now. There is no corner without someone in it. Some are in warehouses and others in tents put up in the yard. My family and I made a tent out of blankets, but the sides are open and there is no privacy. Abu ‘Awwad ( 23 October 2023 ) We brought with us four iron rods, which we stuck in the ground and attached blankets to. There are seven of us in a 3 sqm tent. We didn't have anything to lay on the ground, so I went to the market and managed, with difficulty, to buy some blankets for us to sleep on. Muhammad a-Sheikh Khalil ( 23 October 2023 ) I’ve already lost more than 16 relatives in this war - uncles and cousins.  I’m in shock and can’t even cry. I feel emotionally disconnected. I try to put on a brave front for the family, but it’s very difficult. We have no idea how this will end and what will happen to us. These could be our final days. Olfat al-Kurd ( 19 October 2023 ) I went back to the neighborhood the next day to check on our house. It was hard to reach because of the wreckage. The roads were cut off and the entrance to the building was blocked by rubble. I went into the apartment and found a lot of damage. I stood there for a moment and mourned the home we had, but I couldn't linger because I was afraid there would be another strike. I ran in to my neighbors, who were also there checking on their homes. They were all shocked and mourning their ruined apartments. We stood on the street, among the debris, and could smell the smoke from the bombs.  Muhammad Sabah ( 14 October 2023 ) We can’t refrigerate food, so we’re down to one meal a day. The water company said they can’t run the desalination plants without power, so they can’t supply us. The gas is about to run out, too… I don't know what I'll do. Without power, either, we won’t be able to cook. N.‘A., from Deir al-Balah ( 12 October 2023 ) When the hunger gets intolerable, we ask our neighbors for food. If we eat breakfast, we don’t eat for the rest of the day. ‘Udai stays hungry because our kitchen is just empty. There’s no food. I dream of a day when I can provide normal meals to my family, that we can eat at least two meals a day. We also don’t have money for diapers, so I have to ask my friends for them. . Sa’id Nassar ( 02 August 2023 ) After the pandemic, I started selling sandwiches from a cart on the street, every day from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.. Selling sandwiches for a shekel each bearly makes any money. I want to raise the price, but it’s impossible because of the financial situation in Gaza. It breaks my heart not to be able to give my wife and children a dignified life Dawood al-Buji ( 01 August 2023 ) +2 Rula a-Z’anin ( 23 July 2023 ) When they said we had to evacuate, Tamam went into shock. I quickly packed a bag for the three of us, and we started to push our mother in the wheelchair to the end of the street... then a drone came and launched a missile at the home of Zuheir a-Z’anin, which was a few meters away from our home. After about 25 minutes, an F-16 plane launched a missile, and then there was a really strong explosion.   Rahmah a-Z’anin ( 23 July 2023 ) Hiyam’s legs have been paralyzed ever since she fell from a very high place a few years ago, and her spinal cord was injured. She was treated at the al-Makassed hospital, and they told us there that she needs treatment in Israel or abroad, but we can’t afford it. She can’t move, and she’s incontinent. She needs to use diapers. We can’t afford to buy her an electric wheelchair. It seriously limits her and hinders her at school. It breaks my heart to see her like this, but I don’t have any way to help her.    Arij ‘Abdu ( 18 July 2023 ) Sometimes, I feel like a divorced woman or even a widow. I am lonely, and I dream that my husband and I can do things together, visit family, and even travel just the two of us. I hope that one day, we can all live together in the same home, sit around the same table during Ramadan and holidays, and celebrate together like other families. Samah Abu Musa ( 18 July 2023 ) There’s no real peace, even between wars. By the time we recover from the shock, another one lands on us. One shock follows another. I’ve lost two friends. One was killed in the 2014 war, and the other in the 2021 war. I was so depressed that there were moments when I hoped they’d bomb us too and be done with it. We are tired of this life, and sometimes I feel that death is better. The same war and the same fear every time. Gaza has been completely transformed. The roads, the buildings, nothing is the same as it was, and all the good memories I’d had have disappeared. Rida Sahyoun ( 03 July 2023 ) The fear, anxiety and worries that are with me during wars don’t really go away when they’re over. I stay alert and anxious, waiting for the next escalation... At home, with the kids, I try to switch things up and stay away from the news, watch other things on TV, laugh, joke around, and try to get the children’s minds off the state of war they live in. It’s hard, but I try. Amirah Harurah ( 15 June 2023 ) I was not ready to lose my parents at such a young age. I am not ready to live in a reality where my father and mother are gone... I’m scared my siblings will devolve mentally because of the trauma they experienced. I have grown up by decades all of a sudden. I’ve become mother and father to my sibling, but I’m only a child myself. Menatallah Khaswan ( 14 June 2023 ) I stayed in my parents’ room the entire war, and for four weeks after too. I felt that it was the safest place in the house because it was the only place where the windows didn’t shatter. I would ask my mother and father to bring me food in there, and every time I had to go to the bathroom, I’d ask them to make sure it wasn’t dangerous. When I left the room, I was afraid to pass by the windows and ducked every time I got near them, because I was afraid that shells or bullets would penetrate through them. Hala al-‘Absi ( 12 June 2023 ) When the Israeli army bombs us, there is no safe place in the house. We have no shelters. It’s not safe outside, either. Everyone in the Strip is a target for the Israeli army, which makes no distinction between civilians and combatants at all. They bomb arbitrarily, and I constantly have the feeling that my turn is coming, and they’ll bomb our house over our heads again. When I wake up from the bombs in the middle of the night, I thank God that we are still alive. Mai a-Sheikh Khalil ( 11 June 2023 ) The cancer has already spread all over my body, and I lie in bed at home all day, barely moving... I need these treatments. I have the right to receive them, and I don’t understand why my applications keep getting rejected. I didn’t do anything wrong. All the thoughts have taken a toll on my mental health, and I can’t fall asleep at night anymore... I pray to God that I will get the treatment. Khawlah a-Tum ( 05 June 2023 ) +2 Muhammad Sarsur ( 29 May 2023 ) +7 Ahmad a-Dirawi ( 29 May 2023 ) Alaa al-Fayumi ( 18 May 2023 ) +1 ‘Alaa ‘Adas ( 17 May 2023 ) On Sunday, 7 August 2022, at around 6:00 P.M., while the whole family was sitting in the yard, the power suddenly went out, and then there was an explosion with an intensity that is hard to describe. An Israeli plane bombed our house. Everything filled up with smoke, and a fire broke out. Glass and shards of metal flew in the air in all directions. It was very scary, and we all went into shock. Muhammad Abu Harbid ( 03 April 2023 ) +2 ‘Ula Karim ( 28 March 2023 ) Our home was almost completely destroyed, and it is no longer inhabitable. We will need to rebuild it, but we have not yet received compensation from anyone. Immediately after the bombing, we were forced to split up, because we didn’t have a place where we could live together. I moved between friends’ homes, and my parents, my brother Samir and my sisters moved to live with our aunt in Rafah. Yusef Filfel ( 14 March 2023 ) Sometimes, when there is a flour shortage on the market or when the power cuts off again and again in one day, I get worried that the business will fail, and it really brings me down. We follow the power supply table on the power company’s website and plan the work around it, but sometimes the dough still spoils because of blackouts, and it’s very frustrating. Iman al-Jamal ( 02 March 2023 ) Saedah Shihadah ( 17 December 2022 ) +2 Amjad ’Afanah ( 28 November 2022 ) I dream of being able to give my children pocket money when they go to school. Musa, my youngest, who’s five years old, doesn’t go to kindergarten because we can’t pay tuition. I dream of buying clothes for the children at the market, like other mothers. We all wear clothes we got from friends and neighbors. All our possessions are in bags and cardboard boxes. I dream of having a closet to put all the clothes in. ‘Aliaa al-Bahtiti ( 31 October 2022 ) Sometimes, our power gets cut off. I dream of a constant power supply, at least during the day. It’s very hard at night without electricity too. My little children are very afraid of the dark, and when they get frightened, they scream so much. Muhammad, who can only see silhouettes, has a particularly hard time in the dark. Unfortunately, I can’t afford to buy a generator.  Manal Baker ( 28 September 2022 ) Sometimes, I stand on the beach, look at the big sea and dream big dreams. I dream of being able to live a normal life, without the occupation and this terrible despair.  Sarah Hattab ( 11 September 2022 ) We live in Gaza like in a big prison. We are closed in here with no possibility of exiting and going to other places, even in our homeland. I really hope that one day, I’ll be able to pray at al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and, visit the West Bank, get to know all the cities and villages there. My husband, my children and I don’t have passports. I have no idea how it feels to travel the world.   Wafa Ba’lushah ( 05 September 2022 ) Nihaya Jaradeh ( 04 August 2022 ) Hanan Abu Sa’ ( 05 June 2022 ) took communications and public relations at al-Azhar University in Gaza and graduated in 2007. I was interested in this field and thought I could find a job in it even while still at school, but then I realized that there are no job opportunities for young people in this field either because of the blockade. That dream is gone too. Sa’id Lulu ( 14 November 0222 ) I dream that my husband and I will have jobs that make us a decent living, that we can live in our own house and regularly buy meat and fruits and vegetables, and maybe also purified water. The situation in Gaza is difficult, and it is simply impossible to find a permanent job with a normal salary.   Khitam al-Hamami () ✕ Muhammad Nabil al-‘Aidy ( 24 October 2023 ) Muhammad Nabil al-'Aidy, a 37-year-old father of four from the neighborhood of al-Juneinah in Rafah, described losing three of his children and many relatives when Israel bombed his home on 23 October 2023:  We lived in a three-story building with six apartments. My brothers and their families lived in the other apartments.   On Monday, 23 October 2023, at around 1:30 P.M., I took my son Ahmad (15) to get his hair cut at a barbershop about 150 meters from our house. Everyone is shaving their sons because there isn’t enough water for washing. Suddenly I heard a very loud bombing. At first, even though it was so strong, I thought it was far away. But then I saw a lot of dust and smoke billowing around the house and couldn’t see clearly what was going on there. I quickly ran home and found the building completely destroyed. There was nothing left standing.   I lost three of my children: Rimas (16), Adam (10) and Rinad (9). My wife Asmaa (36) has moderate injuries and is still in hospital. I also lost dozens of people from my extended family, many of them young children, women and babies. My mother was badly injured. There are still people under the rubble. We have no way of knowing if any of them are alive.   I’m still in total shock. I can’t grasp what happened and can’t process it. A three-story building gone in seconds. Since midday yesterday, I’ve been looking for my other relatives under the rubble. Of course, I don’t know who is still alive and who was killed. I’m praying to find survivors. The grief is too much to bear. We can’t take any more people killed, family members or anyone else.  The bombing killed 49 people, at least 20 of them minors, and injured 11. For their names, see the testimony of Muhammad's cousin, Mahmoud Nafez al-’Aidy. Read the testimony of 'Amer Dabur, who family was sheltering in the al-'Aidy building

Residents of the Gaza Strip live in a humanitarian disaster zone. This entirely man-made disaster is a direct result of a policy employed by Israel, which, to this day, continues to dictate what daily life in Gaza looks like. This callous, unjustifiable policy sentences the nearly two million residents of the Gaza Strip to a life of abject poverty in near inhuman conditions no longer seen in the Western world. In testimonies collected by B'Tselem's field researchers, residents of the Gaza Strip describe their lives, the dreams they will not get to realize, the medical conditions they have no way of treating, the ongoing separation from family members and friends outside the Strip, and the unbearable suffering caused by their confinement to the Strip, with no hope for change. Read more >> I picked up my husband and carried him on my back. His body was limp from the injury and very heavy. There was no one to help me, and I had to carry him on my own. I walked for a bit, rested, and then continued. He was still bleeding. We got to my uncle’s house, about 50 meters from ours. [...] Suddenly, I noticed his left hand was shaking badly. I asked if he wanted a massage, but then I saw he was dead. I checked again—I wasn’t mistaken. He died right there, in my arms. ‘Azizah Qishtah ( 27 May 2025 ) [...] the military sent a quadcopter into the house and used a loudspeaker to order us to raise our hands. The quadcopter filmed us. Then soldiers came in and forced us to strip. [...] The soldiers even used [my son] ‘Abdallah as a human shield—they forced him to accompany them as they searched the house and then to tie up the other men. Then they tied him up and arrested him too. [...] they ordered us—just the women, at gunpoint—to walk to southern Gaza along the coastline. [...] We walked for two days. [...] Along the way, we saw dozens of bodies—women, children, men—lying on the beach, with dogs feeding on them. Some of the corpses had disintegrated from the saltwater. Quadcopters hovered overhead the whole time. Firyal Safi ( 26 April 2025 ) On 2 March 2025, the crossings were closed and food imports were banned. Goods gradually disappeared from the market, and now we can’t buy any food and there’s also no aid. [...] The war resumed on 18 March 2025 and we went back to a nightmare of killing, bombing, destruction and displacement. [...] For over six weeks, no food has entered the Gaza Strip. [...] Sometimes I find one or two pitas and that’s all we eat. We go to sleep hungry. We wake up hungry and terrified by bombings and the noise of aircraft. Adham Abu Naser ( 24 April 2025 ) In this brutal war, we’ve endured so much: killing, displacement, destruction, and hunger. But the hunger we’ve experienced in the past two months is on a different scale. The crossings are closed, and no goods are allowed into Gaza. This is another method of warfare the Israeli military uses against civilians in Gaza – starvation. My children beg me to get them meat or eggs, and I have to tell them there is none and I can’t. What crime have my children committed? Why must they starve? ‘Abdallah Shaqurah ( 23 April 2025 ) My youngest, ‘Az a-Din, cried a lot and kept saying, “I’m hungry.” It broke my heart to hear it, and I cried over his situation — but that was the situation for everyone. I explained to him that everyone was hungry and there was nothing I could do. [...] We didn’t get food package coupons because we weren’t living in a tent, so we had to pay insane prices for food. Two of my children, Layan and Mahmoud, came down with viral hepatitis and there was no treatment available. I couldn’t provide them with the healthy nutrition they needed to fight the illness. Hala Sha’sha’ah ( 22 April 2025 ) I was nine months pregnant and weighed only 55 kg because I was eating just one meal a day — lentils, fava beans or falafel. When I went to the hospital to give birth, the doctors couldn’t believe I was pregnant. My baby girl was born weighing only 2 kg due to the lack of food. Anwar Hamad ( 20 April 2025 ) Two months before the war broke out, we renovated the house and bought new furniture for the living room and the children’s bedrooms, to celebrate Najat’s high school graduation and our son’s admission to university. I took out a bank loan to pay for the renovations. About a month ago, we heard from neighbors and acquaintances that our home was completely destroyed. When we found out, it was a black day for all of us. The children cried—they had so many memories and beloved things they left behind. I fell into depression. I felt like I was back to square one, that we have nothing. Khader Abu Diyah ( 25 February 2025 ) On 28 December, the Israeli military bombed the school and two classrooms where people were staying were hit. I went into one of the classrooms and saw about eight dead bodies, body parts, injured people and a lot of blood. Suddenly, I heard crying and saw a little baby, just a few months old. I picked him up and left the classroom. I saw people running in panic and screaming. I didn’t know if his parents were killed or injured. I stood there waiting for someone to come to me, but everyone rushed out of the classroom and passed me by, and no one came up to me. The military ordered everyone at the school to evacuate and go to the southern part of the Gaza Strip immediately. My family and I left the school, taking the unknown baby with us. I decided to call him Hamudah Rasem Nabhan ( 17 February 2025 ) My mother said that the war was over and that she wanted me and my fiancée to get married already. She said she would hold the most beautiful wedding for me. The next day, the occupation shattered all of my dreams, and from happy wishes I went into deep mourning. On Sunday, 16 January 2025, the Israeli military bombed our house directly, and everyone inside was killed: my mother, my brother Tariq, his wife ‘Ula, their three children who survived the previous bombing – Muhammad, Rital and little Ahmad, my sister Shirin, 43, and her two children – ‘Alaa, 10, and Diaa, 8. I had been looking forward so much to going back to Jabalya and reuniting with them after a year apart, to celebrating with them. But the occupation killed that dream, too. It hit me so hard, and all I wanted was to die to escape the pain. 'Amer a-Sultan ( 10 February 2025 ) The children wanted to play next to their father and I let them [...] I heard them laughing and playing. My husband looked up at the sky, at the surveillance planes, and was worried about the level of noise they were making. Suddenly, I heard a huge blast [...] I immediately turned around to look at them, but all I saw was black smoke. I screamed, “My husband and kids!” and ran to them. I found my daughter Raghad covered in blood, lying on her back. I shouted, “Raghad!” Raghad!” I was shocked. Then I found my husband ‘Abdallah. His clothes were like black coal. Then I saw my son Hamzah. His head was covered in blood. [...] They were all dead. Aya Hasunah a-Susi ( 01 February 2025 ) Ahmad Matar ( 22 January 2025 ) I found myself under the rubble. My mother’s sister Nidaa, who was next to me, died right before my eyes. I stayed trapped under the rubble for nearly an hour before they got me out and took me to a neighbor’s house. My father, who was hit by shrapnel all over his body and mostly in the pelvis, came with me. My brother Ahmad was removed from under the rubble before me, half an hour after the bombing. My mother, who got burns on her hand and had shrapnel wounds and bruises all over her body, went with him to the hospital, but she returned after half an hour and told me he had passed away. My little brother, ‘Abd a-Rahman, was injured in his leg, and my uncle had broken ribs and vertebrae in his spine, as well as head wounds that needed stitches. [...] That same day, they pulled the bodies of my maternal uncle, his wife, and my maternal aunts from under the rubble. They were buried shortly after, and I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye to them. In the evening, they also got my grandfather’s body out. Shahd Salem ( 22 January 2025 ) I thought my husband and children were just injured, but when I arrived, I found out that my two sons, Suliman and Mustafa, had been killed and were already in the morgue. I was in shock and couldn’t face going to see them. When I asked about my husband and Malak, they told me they were both dead too and their bodies dismembered. My husband’s body stayed in the ambulance for two days, because the ambulance couldn’t reach the hospital until the army withdrew from the area. Asmaa al-Masri ( 19 January 2025 ) Mu’in Abu al-’Eish, A Paramedic ( 18 January 2025 ) We’re freezing cold in the tent and we have no way to heat it, because there’s no electricity and we can’t afford to buy firewood—it's too expensive. We don’t have enough blankets and winter clothes, either. At night, packs of stray dogs wander between the tents, and my children are very scared. Life in the tent was bad enough in the summer. My wife had headaches the whole summer because of the heat, and we suffered from insects and rodents. Bilal a-Raqab ( 12 January 2025 ) During the ceasefire early on in the war, I came back from the market to the school we were staying at, and suddenly saw Muhammad at the school. He arrived through the Netzarim checkpoint. I started screaming loudly, hugged him, and kissed his injured leg. Muhammad held me close and cried. It was a huge surprise. I didn’t know if I would see him again [...] In early April, I lost contact with Muhammad [...] Later, someone told me that he’d been killed. Jamalat Wadi ( 04 January 2025 ) Just before I dozed off, Rana [my wife] nursed ‘Aishah and checked to see she was okay. The baby slept with us.  We woke up at 6:00 A.M. I picked ‘Aishah up and she was like a block of ice, cold and stiff and blue, and her eyes were open. I held her in utter shock. She wasn’t breathing. ‘Adnan al-Qassas ( 31 December 2024 ) Hadil [my wife] woke up early in the morning and went to the bathroom. When she came back to the tent, she checked on the children and found ‘Ali frozen. He wasn’t breathing, and his face was blue. She started screaming and calling me: “Wake up, look at ‘Ali. I found him frozen, with a blue face.” I started screaming and crying and said: ‘Dear God, don’t take him from me.’ ‘Issam Saqer ( 30 December 2024 ) Ahmad al-‘Askari ( 23 October 2024 ) Ahmad Abu Foul ( 17 October 2024 ) The soldiers showed us a path to follow, but snipers were shooting indiscriminately there and my mother was hit in the leg. They also injured another woman and killed two of our neighbors. We carried my mother, and we all found shelter in a storage room that was still standing in a nearby house that was bombed. Bilal and I tore up our shirts and tried to dress her wound to stop the bleeding. Thirteen of us sat there in the storage room all night, listening to the bombings and shelling. Later, we stole into ruined homes nearby to look for food and blankets, but we couldn’t find anything in the rubble. Yaser Abu Rukbeh ( 07 October 2024 ) At the end of December 2023, my brother, Myasarah al-‘Ajouri (30) disappeared. We waited two days, and he still didn’t come. We waited two weeks, but Myasarah didn’t come back. After the army withdrew from the town and people returned, we went to look for him. We didn’t find him at his barbershop, and when we reached the house he rented, we found it had been bombed. We don’t know if he was there. We also searched in hospitals and reported him missing to the Red Cross but have been unable to get any information. Safaa al-Ghandur ( 03 October 2024 ) My nephew Mu’in [10], the sole survivor from his family, cried hysterically when he said goodbye to his mother and siblings. He was shocked and couldn’t believe they were all gone and he was left alone. Mu’in is broken. He keeps asking about his mother and his siblings. He tells me, “My father left us. Then my mother and brothers left me. What did I stay alive for?” I have no words to comfort him. Muamen ‘Awad ( 28 September 2024 ) When I woke up, I found myself buried in a pile of debris and rubble. Right before that, while I was asleep, I dreamt that I was walking and a missile fell on me. In the dream, my father, my wife, my son, my sister, and a mass of people were walking ahead of me. The sky wasn’t like the sky we know. Two people dressed in white stopped me and said, “You’re not going with them.” I stopped, and my wife and son kept walking. A few meters ahead of me, they turned and waved goodbye ‘Ali al-Nweiri ( 21 September 2024 ) On Thursday, 16 November 2023, we made dinner and sat down to eat. My son Mu’in was sleeping in the next room. When we finished eating, I went into the room where Mu’in was sleeping, along with my husband, our son ‘Imad, and my husband’s sister Ilham, 33. We didn’t hear any planes or bombs, but suddenly, the house came crashing down on us. [...] The next day, I was told ‘Imad had been killed. I sat next to Mu’in for four days while he was in intensive care. [...] I lost Mu’in on 20 November 2023. (Jihan Swelem-'Aweidah talked to B'Tselem in August 2024 about losing her little boys in a bombing. On 10 October, she was killed in another bombing). Jihan Swelem-’Aweidah ( 07 August 2024 ) The dog pounced on Muhammad and bit him in the chest. Muhammad was very frightened and started screaming at the dog: “Get away! Get off me! Get away!” The dog didn’t back off. It grabbed Muhammad’s left arm below the shoulder [...] Muhammad was already bleeding heavily from his arm. It was a terrible sight and we couldn’t do anything about it. We tried to shout to the soldiers that we were civilians, that they should get the dog away from Muhammad, that Muhammad had a disability, but they paid no attention to us. [...] Four of them pointed their guns at Muhammad. Another group of soldiers pointed their guns at us and forced us to get down on our knees. They ordered us to shut up. [...] The soldiers counted us and then ordered us to go downstairs. My mother said, “Let me take Muhammad because he’s sick,” but they refused. That was the last time we saw Muhammad. We left him bleeding on the couch. Sarah Bhar ( 20 July 2024 ) I filmed people holding bleeding children in their arms, a guy carrying half the body of another guy, women running madly on the street with their heads uncovered, people falling on the ground because of the shooting and mayhem. I fell down, too, and two guys and a woman fell next to me. I saw children on the street without their families, and a child alone who was killed. Safinaz a-Loh ( 09 June 2024 ) The pediatric ward was full of patients – kids with cancer, hepatitis and many other illnesses. The hallways were crowded with sick and wounded people and the people staying with them. I have no words to describe what went on there. The whole time Nabil was treated in the hospitals in the Gaza Strip, he never got chemotherapy. Aya Kahil ( 03 June 2024 ) A doctor from al-’Awda Hospital called and told us the army had ordered all doctors over the age of 40 to go out to the hospital yard in their underwear. He said that Uncle ‘Adnan went down and was arrested. [...] All we knew was that Uncle ‘Adnan was in Ofer Prison and was being held under the Unlawful Combatants Law. Then, someone who was released from prison told us my uncle was not in the barracks [a nickname for the Sde Teiman facility] but in another detention facility. Then, before it was announced on the news, my father found out Uncle ‘Adnan had died in prison. Ruzan al-Bursh ( 29 May 2024 ) Ahlam a-Taluli ( 27 May 2024 ) I was praying in the shack when a massive explosion shook everything. The shack collapsed, and I felt something hit my back. Salma’s leg was badly injured, and Ahmad was buried under the rubble. Neighbors rushed to pull us out Muhammad and Hassan al-‘Ijleh ( 21 May 2024 ) One day, during the siege on the hospital, my uncle Amir and his children were sitting next to us. His son Karim, 3, was sitting on his lap when suddenly a bullet hit him in the head. He started bleeding, but there was no medical staff there. His mother held him. We bandaged his head with gauze, and then, even though it was dangerous outside, my uncle took him to the UNRWA al-Fakhura clinic. They told him Karim’s condition was very serious and he had to take him to al-Ma’amadani Hospital in Gaza. He didn’t manage to get him there, and at 6:00 P.M., Karim died. Shams Mhanna ( 21 May 2024 ) My daughter Afnan said: “Father. Where’s father? He didn’t wake up!” I shone a flashlight on my husband and saw he’d been hit in the head by shrapnel and was dying. My daughter Shaimaa was also hit in the head, and was semi-conscious. My sister-in-law Iman, 45, was screaming, “My leg! My leg!” When I tried to help her, another tank shell was fired at us and killed my three daughters, Afnan, Duha and Shaimaa, my son Mahmoud, and my nephew, whose name was also Mahmoud, 19. Samia ‘Abd a-Latif ‘Abd a-Ghafur ( 20 May 2024 ) [the] soldiers ordered us on loudspeakers to go out to the street. They ordered the men to stand facing the wall and forced us to strip down to our underwear. There were almost 300 of us there, naked. They forced us to kneel and tied our hands and feet with zip ties. They kept us like that for four hours, cursing us and our mothers all the time. They beat us on our heads and other parts of our body with their guns, and kicked us in the face with their military boots. The kicking made me bleed. Muhammad Shams ( 19 May 2024 ) Until the war, I lived with my husband and our nine children in the Tel a-Za’tar neighborhood in Jabalya Refugee Camp. But after October 7, the camp became a war zone. There were bombings and bodies everywhere. Families were bombed inside their homes, children, old people and women. UNRWA schools that were turned into IDP camps were also bombed. The Israeli army ordered us to move to places that were supposed to be safe and then bombed them. Here, in the northern Gaza Strip, nowhere is safe anymore. Asmahan Mahmoud a-Taluli ( 19 May 2024 ) On 16 November 2023, at around 2:00 A.M., I woke up to the sound of my husband shouting and calling for me. I heard him say that the station had been bombed. I was shocked because I hadn’t heard the explosion. All I could see around me was fire and dust. I could hear voices but couldn’t see anyone. I called out my children’s names. My husband started pulling our son Muhammad out to rescue him. I called for Malak. Then ambulances arrived. I couldn’t walk, so they carried me to an ambulance. While I was in the ambulance, the paramedics told me that my children were fine except for Malak. They told me she had been killed. I cried and screamed. Rabab al-Hito ( 19 May 2024 ) I went into our tent and discovered everyone who was in it had been hurt or killed. My three sisters, Afnan, 16, Shaimaa, 15, Duha, 13, my brother Mahmoud, 16, and my cousin Mahmoud, 19, who tried to call an ambulance earlier - they were all killed. My uncle’s wife was hurt in the leg and her son, Ahmad, 15, was hurt in the right thigh. It was a horrifying scene. It was all I could do to hold it together and not break down there. I couldn’t take care of the wounded because I was afraid they’d shell us again. I had to just abandon them. ‘Abd a-Rahman ‘Abd a-Ghafur ( 12 May 2024 ) The doctors decided to amputate my leg. They said otherwise I would develop sepsis and could die. They also discovered my blood sugar was not balanced, which was probably why I was thirsty all the time. They operated on me again, and when I woke up, I didn’t have a leg. It was a terrible feeling, I can’t describe it. After the amputation, the nurses changed my bandages every day, without anesthesia because there were no anesthetics. I screamed in pain Alaa Rif’at al-Kurd ( 08 May 2024 ) My son Yusef had a curtain wrapped around his neck. He started choking, and I helped him get it off so he could breathe. Karim, Alaa's son, was next to me. His head was covered in blood and he was unconscious. I tried to wake him up. My phone was on me, so I called my mother-in-law and told her the house had been bombed and that we were under the rubble. I wasn’t injured, thank God. I called out to Bushra but didn’t hear her voice. I heard my son Yusef’s voice for a moment, and then I didn’t hear him anymore.  Amal Rif’at al-Kurd ( 08 May 2024 ) My face was blue and my whole body was swollen. I was in very bad pain and felt as if my right hand and leg were cut off. I was taken by ambulance to Abu Yusef a-Najar Hospital in Rafah, and all the way I called for my children and told them my children were under the rubble. When I got to the hospital, I found my brothers there and asked again and again about my children. Everyone told me the children were alive and would be rescued just as I was. Only later that day did they tell me that my husband, my children, my brothers-in-law Shadi and Ousamah, and Ousamah’s family, all were killed. Suhair Dabur ( 03 May 2024 ) Maram was killed about ten days after her baby and was buried without us being able to say goodbye to her. She got married about a year and a half before the war. She was a business management graduate, and she worked in the field. She was a vivacious person, with a sweet temper and a beautiful laugh. When Yumana was born, she was so happy. Madlin Shaqlieh-Sawalhi ( 22 April 2024 ) I felt paralyzed. Later, I found out that I was hit by one bullet in the neck and another in the back. [My sister] Mahasen tried again and again to drag me away. After half an hour, my daughter Malak showed up with a white flag. She also tried to shield me with her body. Then my cousin Fatimah, also came there with a white flag. Hasnaa Abu Hasnah ( 14 April 2024 ) The hospital care was very limited, but thankfully, the birth was easy and I went home the same day. Taymaa was born small, weighing less than three kilos. I had nothing to eat after the birth, and I didn’t have enough milk to breastfeed her. I couldn’t find formula to supplement her diet. I was very afraid for her. Wafaa al-Kurd ‘Issa ( 11 April 2024 ) I grabbed my father by the legs and dragged him with great difficulty out of the line of fire. He was hit by three bullets: one in the chest, one in the stomach, and the third, which caused the worst injury, was in the left hip. His intestines were exposed. I got a clean piece of cloth and put it on the wound. He told me to leave him, as if he knew he was going to die and there was no way to save him. Asmaa Hindi ( 01 April 2024 ) My husband was a vegetable vendor and once in a while he managed to sell some vegetables, and that's how we made a living. On 2 November 2023, my husband went out with his cousin Zaki a-Rifi and some others to try and sell vegetables so we could buy necessities, especially diapers for Maher. I tried to persuade him not to go because I was afraid, there were bombings around us all the time. But he insisted and said they were civilians that weren’t endangering anyone. Zaki came back after 20 minutes, badly injured in his hand, and said my husband was killed. Riham a-Rifi ( 26 March 2024 ) I was taken to an iron cage where I stayed with other female detainees for 11 days. My hands were in zip ties the whole time. We were given very little food. I barely even ate that so I wouldn’t have to go to the bathroom, which was far away and didn’t have a tap. If you were menstruating, you got one pad. In the bathroom, we helped each other. There was no shower, either. There were male and female soldiers around us all the time, and they wouldn’t let us sleep. They would turn on the light, turn on speakers, eat in front of us and swear at us. Nadiah al-Hilu ( 18 March 2024 ) We were taken out of the cage and dragged to a bus, like animals. The bus started driving and the whole way, the female soldiers guarding us wouldn’t let us lift our heads. They swore at us, hit us on our hands and took pictures of us. After some time, the bus stopped. We were taken off it and each asked our name and photographed. A female soldier grabbed us by the head and ordered us to kiss the Israeli flag. Another female soldier bashed my head against the side of the bus. Nabilah Miqdad ( 16 March 2024 ) There are nine of us in the tent, without water, electricity, medications, and almost no food. Life here feels like a disaster. We’re living in the desert, in conditions unfit for human habitation. It’s hard to get potable water or even water for cleaning. There is no way to bathe, and we don’t do laundry either. We’re very cold because we have no warm clothes. There are insects everywhere here - mosquitoes and flies, and reptiles too. We’ve all lost a lot of weight and feel weak and exhausted all the time. We barely sleep at night. Fatimah Baker ( 16 March 2024 ) Relatives told me the Israeli military had invaded a-Zeitoun, where my husband was staying. They said he went to stay with his uncle Samir and that soldiers entered the house and arrested Samir, seven of his sons and my husband. Until yesterday, I hadn't heard any news from Shadi. Then, one of his cousins, Jawad, 17, who was arrested and released yesterday, called me. He told me that on the day of the arrest, the soldiers took all the men out of the house and ordered them to strip, and told all the women to go south. He told me that they tied the hands of all the men behind their backs, blindfolded them with bits of cloth, beat them, and poured cold water on them. Shadi was still injured, and Jawad said the soldiers beat him, too. Hala ‘Obeid ( 14 March 2024 ) I lost my cousins and my neighbor, all of them my friends, just to get some flour and canned goods after months of starving. The hunger here is real and extreme, and we have no other way to get food. We go there and risk our lives because it's the only option, but when you go, you don't know if you'll come back. Now I don't know if I'm capable of going there again. On the other hand, when the flour runs out at home, I won't have any choice, despite the danger Isma’il al-Ghandur ( 12 March 2024 ) I was on the balcony with my two grandchildren, Julia and Majd. The rest of the family were inside, getting ready for lunch. Suddenly, I felt my body flying through the air, and then I fell on the floor. Julia and Majd crashed to the floor, too, and there was dust and debris everywhere. There was a lot of smoke too, and I could smell fire. My shoulder felt dislocated, and I couldn’t move or get up on my feet. Then I started feeling like the building was collapsing underneath me, until the third floor became the first floor. Hanan Saleh ( 07 March 2024 ) We buried Yazan that day in the cemetery here in Rafah. Losing him is terrible. I look at the mattress he slept on until he was hospitalized, and all I can feel is grief and deep sorrow. I always tried to give Yazan everything he needed and take care of him, but the conditions here are so difficult now that I had nothing to give him any more. The deadly hunger here killed him. Sharif al-Kafarneh ( 06 March 2024 ) Alma talks about her family non-stop, about her brothers and sister. She talks about how she saw her brother under the rubble. She keeps asking to go back there to look for her family members under the rubble. We told her there was nothing to go back to. I even took her to a place where you can see the northern Gaza Strip from far away, so she would see the destruction and understand that it’s impossible to go back there right now. Sami al-Hadad ( 02 March 2024 ) We took the rubble off the bodies by hand. We did all the work with our hands and with the help of some light equipment. In the end, we managed to get out the bodies of Muhammad, my wife Islam, my father, my two sisters and my aunt. I did it emotionlessly. I can’t feel anything anymore, and that made it possible for me to get them all out. After that, I buried them next to each other in al-Falujah cemetery in Jabalya R.C. Ahmad Abu Foul ( 01 March 2024 ) Since then, I've been alone in the world. I lost my family. I have no home and no future. I cry every day. I go to sleep alone and wake up lonely and lost. I came back from Turkey a month before the war started because of my family. My mother really wanted me to get married. We hoped the war would end and we’d go back to our lives, but they killed my mother, my father and everyone else in my family. They killed everyone. That's how I became an orphan, alone. My life is black now. I don't think I'll ever get over the trauma. Ibrahim Hasunah ( 29 February 2024 ) I have no family left. We were just starting out as a family. We were happy together. On 13 October, we celebrated our first wedding anniversary. All I have left are our two wedding rings, which I’m keeping. I have no other mementos. All the photos and videos are gone. Our clothes, my wife’s and daughter’s belongings, all gone. My house in Gaza City was completely destroyed by the bombing. It was bombed just one day before I left the city. All my memories with my family are gone forever. Hazem al-Madhun ( 28 February 2024 ) we heard a loud explosion and the roof of the building and its pillars collapsed on us. Everything was dark and full of dust. Hanan was still holding my hand when a block of concrete fell on her, and I couldn’t move. I screamed out to the children and only Ibrahim answered. He said, “Dad, I’m going to die.” I told him to recite the Shahadatain. I shouted for help, hoping someone would hear me and save my wife and children. I called out to Hanan, but she didn’t respond. Shadi Fatayer ( 27 February 2024 ) I haven’t showered in ten days because there isn’t always water and when there is we save it to clean the toilets. A six-liter jug of water, which is not really drinkable, costs five shekels (~ USD 1.4). That’s a lot of money for us. My son Yusef, 17, walks about a kilometer to a place where you can fill up water and waits in line for hours just to fill two jugs for which you have to pay. We use one for drinking, even though it is not clean water, and the other for bathing. The children are still wearing the same clothes they wore when we left home and we don’t have enough water to wash them. Khamis al-A’araj ( 20 February 2024 ) Because of the hunger, my wife can barely nurse our nine-month-old son, Yamen, and baby formula is nowhere to be found either. A little while ago, we managed to buy a kilo of dates for NIS 40 (~ USD X), which has been helping us survive. We live off what we manage to get - a little rice, a little corn we ground, and also barley, which is meant for feeding farm animals. The price of barley has also gone crazy. Now even the barley ran out and people have started grinding bird and rabbit food. But there is not much of that either. There is no food for humans or for animals. Ibrahim al-Ghandur ( 19 February 2024 ) I miss our old life, before the war, without all the bombings and killings. We’re exhausted. We’re broken and have no strength left. In one of the bombings, I lost a lot of people form my family and my parents were spared by luck alone. Now, the military might invade Rafah and force us out again. I don't know where else we can run. We’ve been displaced four times. I don’t know what fate awaits us. Amneh al-Masri ( 18 February 2024 ) Hanan Abu Rabi’ ( 13 February 2024 ) Nasmah al-Jamal ( 11 February 2024 ) I was kept there with my hands in metal handcuffs day and night, and sometimes my legs, too. Sometimes they hung me by one hand and left me like that for three or four hours until I fainted. I couldn’t move the other hand because my shoulder must have been broken from the beatings when the platinum came out [...] I was taken to the interrogation room about 5 or 6 times and asked about my friends and neighbors and whether I had undergone military training. All they gave us to eat was a slice of bread, a cucumber and a small piece of cheese. Now and then we got some tuna fish and a bit of water to drink. ‘Abd al-Qader Tafesh ( 07 February 2024 ) I’ve started having diarrhea and vomiting, and my body has become weak. About a month ago, I started getting stomach aches and swelling, and tingling in different parts of my body. I started throwing up everything I ate, even the water I drank. After this went on for about two weeks, I went to the Kuwaiti hospital here in Rafah. They ran tests and diagnosed me with hepatitis. The doctor said it was due to lack of hygiene and told me to be more careful and also to eat healthy. He said there was no cure and it would go away on its own if I was careful. Ahmad Abu ‘Aydah ( 30 January 2024 ) They put me in a jeep again, with other detainees, and transferred us to a large structure that had a rough floor, like concrete, and a tin roof. The sides were open and it was very, very cold. There were a lot of detainees there. When we got there, they blindfolded us and ordered us to kneel down on our knees. I was held there for 35 days, and all that time we were not allowed to move or speak to each other. We ate and slept with our hands tied and our eyes covered. Muhammad Abu Marsah ( 25 January 2024 ) Every day, the soldiers ordered us to sit on our knees from 5:00 A.M. until the evening. We ate and drank with our hands tied in front of us. If we looked sideways, or even spoke to one another, they would punish us and make us stand with our hands raised for about three hours. On top of that, they didn’t let us go to the bathroom when we asked, and they didn’t always let us pray, either. Mahmoud Abu Qadus ( 23 January 2024 ) The whole way, the children cried from hunger, thirst, and fear at the sight of the bodies in the streets. We walked to a military checkpoint south of a-Zeitun neighborhood, along with a lot of other people who were carrying white flags. When we got to the checkpoint, the soldiers swore at us over loudspeakers: “Go, animals.” We kept walking until the entrance to a-Nuseirat Refugee Camp. I suffered from severe pain in my legs the whole way, because I have a herniated disc and had surgery two months before the war. Rami Riyad Abu Dalfeh ( 20 January 2024 ) I was supposed to go back to Tel Hashomer on 8 October for 30 days of biological treatment, two pills a day, to prevent a relapse, and for a pelvic joint transplant on 10 October. Then came the Hamas attack and the war began. Since then, I haven’t been able to go to the hospital and haven’t received the treatment, because the medication isn’t available in Gaza. I’m very stressed and afraid that the cancer will return. I’m not under observation, not getting my treatment and can’t go to the hospital. Majed a-Satari ( 19 January 2024 ) Maryam Barud ( 19 January 2024 ) They blindfolded me with a piece of cloth and handcuffed me in front with white zip ties.There were six of us girls. One of the girls was in pain. The soldiers asked me to translate what she was saying into English, and I translated that she thought she’d miscarried. One of the soldiers said, ‘Oh my God.’ A doctor came in and covered her with a blanket. She was told to put on shoes, so she wouldn’t be so cold. The soldiers told us to sleep, but it was too cold and we were lying handcuffed on rocks, so we weren’t really able to. A. D., A pharmacy student ( 17 January 2024 ) The shelling grew worse and I was worried about Adham [my son] and Diab [my nephew], so I went out looking for them. On the way, I was hit in the hand by a shot from an Israeli drone. I heard Adham and Diab shouting for help, but there was heavy shelling and I couldn’t reach them, even though they were about five meters away from me. Sami ‘Awwadallah Baker ( 17 January 2024 ) Nidal Sharaf ( 07 January 2024 ) After the war started, my milk dwindled and I could barely nurse Alma anymore. I had to get formula and give her two bottles a day. At first she did okay on the formula, but then we couldn't get that brand anymore, and when we switched brands she didn’t respond well [...] She’s lost weight, she coughs a lot, and has diarrhea and vomits. Sometimes she runs a high fever. Malak Abu al-Kheir (Dabash) ( 05 January 2024 ) A few days ago, I took Wisam to the doctor here in the camp. He prescribed eight rounds of inhalation, one a day. I took Wisam to the European Hospital east of Khan Yunis, and he got one round of inhalation. Then we came back to the IDP camp. I didn’t want to stay there because I was afraid the hospital would be bombed, so he didn’t get the rest of the treatment. Riwaa Miqdad ( 05 January 2024 ) They kept me lying on the ground in our garden for about half an hour. Then they took me like that, naked, to another house in the neighborhood, about 150 meters from my house. They took my photo and gave me a number (058793). Farid ‘Amer ( 01 January 2024 ) In the evening, they took me and about 15 other women they arrested to another place. They told us we were in an Israeli military detention facility. Every time I moved, I got hit on the head. Every time I heard soldiers’ voices, I was afraid I’d get hit again. They kept cocking their weapons to scare us. Every time I heard that, I recited the “shahadatein” because I was sure they were going to shoot me. Our hands were tied in zip ties the whole time. Nihal al-Ghandur Salah ( 31 December 2023 ) We’ve been here for a month and a half now, and we’re still 32 people in one tent. We’re very cold and have almost no winter clothes. We sit close to each other to keep warm. Some people in the family have no shoes, and every few people share a pair of flip-flops. The crowding is unbearable, and there is absolutely no privacy. It’s always noisy. All of this makes the stress worse. Nur al-Hilu ( 31 December 2023 ) All my dreams are gone. My sisters were killed, my home was bombed. The wedding dresses and my gold jewelry are under the rubble. The Israeli army left me with nothing. No hope for happiness. It took away every sweet thing in my life. Our lives are terrible now. I cry all the time over my sisters, over the situation, over the hopelessness of it all. Nihal a-Najar ( 24 December 2023 ) +1 Muhammad Lubad ( 24 December 2023 ) Manar Lubad-Miqdas ( 24 December 2023 ) On 17 November, we set out on foot at 7:30 A.M. and started walking. At 8:30, we reached the Netzarim checkpoint. The soldiers ordered us to raise our IDs in the air and walk slowly, without turning our heads left or right. There were crowds of people, so I tied my children’s hands to mine with a kaffiyeh so they wouldn’t get lost. The conduct at the checkpoint was degrading. The soldiers forced us to stand for hours, without moving or sitting down. Only at 1:30 P.M. did they allow us to move on and cross the electronic gate at the entrance to the checkpoint. Alaa al-Kurd ( 30 November 2023 ) Taher al-‘Azayzeh ( 30 November 2023 ) Sahar Abu Suliman ( 26 November 2023 ) +1 Rami a-Sheikh Khalil ( 25 November 2023 ) We could barely contact my mother and brother, who stayed behind in a-Shati, because the communication networks weren’t functioning. It was very, very stressful for me. I managed to get them on the phone just once, after dozens of attempts, and spoke with both of them. I heard bombings in the background. I asked them to leave the camp so they wouldn't be killed, but my mother said she couldn't walk and that “Our fate is in God's hands.”  Ghadah Abu Tabikh ( 23 November 2023 ) I was detained like that for 23 days. Those were the worst days of my life, especially at Ofer Prison. I endured humiliation, beatings, shouting, cursing, scolding, hunger, thirst and lack of sleep. I was scared all the time. I was afraid for myself and also for my wife and our children and for my brothers and their families, in Gaza, especially after the interrogator told me my family had been bombed. I thought they were all dead. It was constant uncertainty, and it was very difficult.   Muhammad al-Jamal ( 17 November 2023 ) I’m a general practitioner at the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. On Sunday morning, 15 Oct. 2023, an ambulance came to take me to the hospital because it was too dangerous to get there any other way. Before I left, I went into the room where the kids were sleeping and looked at them, without waking them. It was the last time I saw my nine-year-old son Fadel alive. ‘Issam Da’ur ( 15 November 2023 ) ‘Amer Dabur ( 14 November 2023 ) Three days ago, we decided to move to Salah al-Din School in a-Rimal. It was very crowded, so we just sat on the floor. We slept sitting up and stood in line for everything -– to go to the bathroom, fill up water, get food. On 10 Nov., the school came under fire so we moved to the YMCA building. With us here are about 200 other people. There are long lines to use the toilet and shower, and not enough food and water. Hiyam al-Bitar ( 13 November 2023 ) ‘Alaa Abu Zeid ( 13 November 2023 ) Now we’re at a-Shifaa Hospital. A few days ago, the Israeli military shelled the courtyard and people were killed and injured. Then they hit the hospital’s solar panels and the surgical ward. There was massive gunfire around the hospital, and people sheltering here were hit. After that, some of the people who were sheltering here left. The dead bodies stayed in the courtyard and it’s too dangerous to go get them in order to bury them. Bashir Rizeq ( 13 November 2023 ) A Mitsubishi jeep driving about 100 meters ahead of me was hit by a shell and veered right. I pulled over behind it and saw a man get out. I got out of my car and ran over to them. Inside the car, I saw some injured people and a man and a woman who were dead. [...] I drove them to Shuhadaa al-Aqsa Hospital [...] On the way, the woman and the girl blacked out... Thu al-Fiqar Sweirjo ( 04 November 2023 ) Mahmoud Nafez al-’Aidy ( 30 October 2023 ) Children here are getting sick because it’s impossible to maintain hygiene, and maybe because of the poor quality of the water we buy. A lot of people are suffering from stomach aches and diarrhea. Abu al-Majd ( 24 October 2023 ) Muhammad Nabil al-‘Aidy ( 24 October 2023 ) In the morning, in Rafah, I went from bakery to bakery until I found the shortest line. I stood there from 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. and managed to buy a bag of 30-40 small pitas. I came back exhausted after five hours of standing in line, terrified, hearing bombings all around. Kamal Abu al-Fahem ( 23 October 2023 ) We were given food and water for the first time after about three days. We stand in long lines every day to get two small pitas, half a tin of canned meat and some water for the day. The queues are rough and exhausting. I could barely get us blankets. Muhammad a-Najar ( 23 October 2023 ) I sleep in the yard and my wife and daughters sleep in a room. Some have mattresses and others only blankets on the floor. There are a lot of people in the yard, because there isn’t enough space inside. If it becomes cold and rainy, I don't know where we’ll go. Abu ‘Othman ( 23 October 2023 ) There are about 40,000 people here now. There is no corner without someone in it. Some are in warehouses and others in tents put up in the yard. My family and I made a tent out of blankets, but the sides are open and there is no privacy. Abu ‘Awwad ( 23 October 2023 ) We brought with us four iron rods, which we stuck in the ground and attached blankets to. There are seven of us in a 3 sqm tent. We didn't have anything to lay on the ground, so I went to the market and managed, with difficulty, to buy some blankets for us to sleep on. Muhammad a-Sheikh Khalil ( 23 October 2023 ) I’ve already lost more than 16 relatives in this war - uncles and cousins.  I’m in shock and can’t even cry. I feel emotionally disconnected. I try to put on a brave front for the family, but it’s very difficult. We have no idea how this will end and what will happen to us. These could be our final days. Olfat al-Kurd ( 19 October 2023 ) I went back to the neighborhood the next day to check on our house. It was hard to reach because of the wreckage. The roads were cut off and the entrance to the building was blocked by rubble. I went into the apartment and found a lot of damage. I stood there for a moment and mourned the home we had, but I couldn't linger because I was afraid there would be another strike. I ran in to my neighbors, who were also there checking on their homes. They were all shocked and mourning their ruined apartments. We stood on the street, among the debris, and could smell the smoke from the bombs.  Muhammad Sabah ( 14 October 2023 ) We can’t refrigerate food, so we’re down to one meal a day. The water company said they can’t run the desalination plants without power, so they can’t supply us. The gas is about to run out, too… I don't know what I'll do. Without power, either, we won’t be able to cook. N.‘A., from Deir al-Balah ( 12 October 2023 ) When the hunger gets intolerable, we ask our neighbors for food. If we eat breakfast, we don’t eat for the rest of the day. ‘Udai stays hungry because our kitchen is just empty. There’s no food. I dream of a day when I can provide normal meals to my family, that we can eat at least two meals a day. We also don’t have money for diapers, so I have to ask my friends for them. . Sa’id Nassar ( 02 August 2023 ) After the pandemic, I started selling sandwiches from a cart on the street, every day from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.. Selling sandwiches for a shekel each bearly makes any money. I want to raise the price, but it’s impossible because of the financial situation in Gaza. It breaks my heart not to be able to give my wife and children a dignified life Dawood al-Buji ( 01 August 2023 ) +2 Rula a-Z’anin ( 23 July 2023 ) When they said we had to evacuate, Tamam went into shock. I quickly packed a bag for the three of us, and we started to push our mother in the wheelchair to the end of the street... then a drone came and launched a missile at the home of Zuheir a-Z’anin, which was a few meters away from our home. After about 25 minutes, an F-16 plane launched a missile, and then there was a really strong explosion.   Rahmah a-Z’anin ( 23 July 2023 ) Hiyam’s legs have been paralyzed ever since she fell from a very high place a few years ago, and her spinal cord was injured. She was treated at the al-Makassed hospital, and they told us there that she needs treatment in Israel or abroad, but we can’t afford it. She can’t move, and she’s incontinent. She needs to use diapers. We can’t afford to buy her an electric wheelchair. It seriously limits her and hinders her at school. It breaks my heart to see her like this, but I don’t have any way to help her.    Arij ‘Abdu ( 18 July 2023 ) Sometimes, I feel like a divorced woman or even a widow. I am lonely, and I dream that my husband and I can do things together, visit family, and even travel just the two of us. I hope that one day, we can all live together in the same home, sit around the same table during Ramadan and holidays, and celebrate together like other families. Samah Abu Musa ( 18 July 2023 ) There’s no real peace, even between wars. By the time we recover from the shock, another one lands on us. One shock follows another. I’ve lost two friends. One was killed in the 2014 war, and the other in the 2021 war. I was so depressed that there were moments when I hoped they’d bomb us too and be done with it. We are tired of this life, and sometimes I feel that death is better. The same war and the same fear every time. Gaza has been completely transformed. The roads, the buildings, nothing is the same as it was, and all the good memories I’d had have disappeared. Rida Sahyoun ( 03 July 2023 ) The fear, anxiety and worries that are with me during wars don’t really go away when they’re over. I stay alert and anxious, waiting for the next escalation... At home, with the kids, I try to switch things up and stay away from the news, watch other things on TV, laugh, joke around, and try to get the children’s minds off the state of war they live in. It’s hard, but I try. Amirah Harurah ( 15 June 2023 ) I was not ready to lose my parents at such a young age. I am not ready to live in a reality where my father and mother are gone... I’m scared my siblings will devolve mentally because of the trauma they experienced. I have grown up by decades all of a sudden. I’ve become mother and father to my sibling, but I’m only a child myself. Menatallah Khaswan ( 14 June 2023 ) I stayed in my parents’ room the entire war, and for four weeks after too. I felt that it was the safest place in the house because it was the only place where the windows didn’t shatter. I would ask my mother and father to bring me food in there, and every time I had to go to the bathroom, I’d ask them to make sure it wasn’t dangerous. When I left the room, I was afraid to pass by the windows and ducked every time I got near them, because I was afraid that shells or bullets would penetrate through them. Hala al-‘Absi ( 12 June 2023 ) When the Israeli army bombs us, there is no safe place in the house. We have no shelters. It’s not safe outside, either. Everyone in the Strip is a target for the Israeli army, which makes no distinction between civilians and combatants at all. They bomb arbitrarily, and I constantly have the feeling that my turn is coming, and they’ll bomb our house over our heads again. When I wake up from the bombs in the middle of the night, I thank God that we are still alive. Mai a-Sheikh Khalil ( 11 June 2023 ) The cancer has already spread all over my body, and I lie in bed at home all day, barely moving... I need these treatments. I have the right to receive them, and I don’t understand why my applications keep getting rejected. I didn’t do anything wrong. All the thoughts have taken a toll on my mental health, and I can’t fall asleep at night anymore... I pray to God that I will get the treatment. Khawlah a-Tum ( 05 June 2023 ) +2 Muhammad Sarsur ( 29 May 2023 ) +7 Ahmad a-Dirawi ( 29 May 2023 ) Alaa al-Fayumi ( 18 May 2023 ) +1 ‘Alaa ‘Adas ( 17 May 2023 ) On Sunday, 7 August 2022, at around 6:00 P.M., while the whole family was sitting in the yard, the power suddenly went out, and then there was an explosion with an intensity that is hard to describe. An Israeli plane bombed our house. Everything filled up with smoke, and a fire broke out. Glass and shards of metal flew in the air in all directions. It was very scary, and we all went into shock. Muhammad Abu Harbid ( 03 April 2023 ) +2 ‘Ula Karim ( 28 March 2023 ) Our home was almost completely destroyed, and it is no longer inhabitable. We will need to rebuild it, but we have not yet received compensation from anyone. Immediately after the bombing, we were forced to split up, because we didn’t have a place where we could live together. I moved between friends’ homes, and my parents, my brother Samir and my sisters moved to live with our aunt in Rafah. Yusef Filfel ( 14 March 2023 ) Sometimes, when there is a flour shortage on the market or when the power cuts off again and again in one day, I get worried that the business will fail, and it really brings me down. We follow the power supply table on the power company’s website and plan the work around it, but sometimes the dough still spoils because of blackouts, and it’s very frustrating. Iman al-Jamal ( 02 March 2023 ) Saedah Shihadah ( 17 December 2022 ) +2 Amjad ’Afanah ( 28 November 2022 ) I dream of being able to give my children pocket money when they go to school. Musa, my youngest, who’s five years old, doesn’t go to kindergarten because we can’t pay tuition. I dream of buying clothes for the children at the market, like other mothers. We all wear clothes we got from friends and neighbors. All our possessions are in bags and cardboard boxes. I dream of having a closet to put all the clothes in. ‘Aliaa al-Bahtiti ( 31 October 2022 ) Sometimes, our power gets cut off. I dream of a constant power supply, at least during the day. It’s very hard at night without electricity too. My little children are very afraid of the dark, and when they get frightened, they scream so much. Muhammad, who can only see silhouettes, has a particularly hard time in the dark. Unfortunately, I can’t afford to buy a generator.  Manal Baker ( 28 September 2022 ) Sometimes, I stand on the beach, look at the big sea and dream big dreams. I dream of being able to live a normal life, without the occupation and this terrible despair.  Sarah Hattab ( 11 September 2022 ) We live in Gaza like in a big prison. We are closed in here with no possibility of exiting and going to other places, even in our homeland. I really hope that one day, I’ll be able to pray at al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and, visit the West Bank, get to know all the cities and villages there. My husband, my children and I don’t have passports. I have no idea how it feels to travel the world.   Wafa Ba’lushah ( 05 September 2022 ) Nihaya Jaradeh ( 04 August 2022 ) Hanan Abu Sa’ ( 05 June 2022 ) took communications and public relations at al-Azhar University in Gaza and graduated in 2007. I was interested in this field and thought I could find a job in it even while still at school, but then I realized that there are no job opportunities for young people in this field either because of the blockade. That dream is gone too. Sa’id Lulu ( 14 November 0222 ) I dream that my husband and I will have jobs that make us a decent living, that we can live in our own house and regularly buy meat and fruits and vegetables, and maybe also purified water. The situation in Gaza is difficult, and it is simply impossible to find a permanent job with a normal salary.   Khitam al-Hamami () ✕ Muhammad Nabil al-‘Aidy ( 24 October 2023 ) Muhammad Nabil al-'Aidy, a 37-year-old father of four from the neighborhood of al-Juneinah in Rafah, described losing three of his children and many relatives when Israel bombed his home on 23 October 2023:  We lived in a three-story building with six apartments. My brothers and their families lived in the other apartments.   On Monday, 23 October 2023, at around 1:30 P.M., I took my son Ahmad (15) to get his hair cut at a barbershop about 150 meters from our house. Everyone is shaving their sons because there isn’t enough water for washing. Suddenly I heard a very loud bombing. At first, even though it was so strong, I thought it was far away. But then I saw a lot of dust and smoke billowing around the house and couldn’t see clearly what was going on there. I quickly ran home and found the building completely destroyed. There was nothing left standing.   I lost three of my children: Rimas (16), Adam (10) and Rinad (9). My wife Asmaa (36) has moderate injuries and is still in hospital. I also lost dozens of people from my extended family, many of them young children, women and babies. My mother was badly injured. There are still people under the rubble. We have no way of knowing if any of them are alive.   I’m still in total shock. I can’t grasp what happened and can’t process it. A three-story building gone in seconds. Since midday yesterday, I’ve been looking for my other relatives under the rubble. Of course, I don’t know who is still alive and who was killed. I’m praying to find survivors. The grief is too much to bear. We can’t take any more people killed, family members or anyone else.  The bombing killed 49 people, at least 20 of them minors, and injured 11. For their names, see the testimony of Muhammad's cousin, Mahmoud Nafez al-’Aidy. Read the testimony of 'Amer Dabur, who family was sheltering in the al-'Aidy building

ISTANBUL At least 120 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight as the fighting entered 18th day on Tuesday, local media reported.The Palestinian news agency WAFA quoted a medical source as saying that Israeli fighter jets attacked several Palestinian areas across the Gaza Strip, leaving at least 120 Palestinians killed including children and women along with dozens of others.It added that in a single airstrike on a residential building for the Alaydi family in Rafah city, southern Gaza Strip, 48 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured.WAFA also said that an Israeli airstrike targeted a house for the Mkhaimar family in Rafah, causing deaths and injuries among the house residents, and in Alfaluja area, northern Gaza, an Israeli airstrike on a residential building also caused deaths and injuries.In Khan Younis city, several Israeli airstrikes left at least 23 Palestinians killed.Rescue teams were working to pull out bodies under the rubble and to find possible survivors, the reported added.*Writing by Ahmed Asmar Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. Please contact us for subscription options.

ISTANBUL At least 120 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight as the fighting entered 18th day on Tuesday, local media reported.The Palestinian news agency WAFA quoted a medical source as saying that Israeli fighter jets attacked several Palestinian areas across the Gaza Strip, leaving at least 120 Palestinians killed including children and women along with dozens of others.It added that in a single airstrike on a residential building for the Alaydi family in Rafah city, southern Gaza Strip, 48 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured.WAFA also said that an Israeli airstrike targeted a house for the Mkhaimar family in Rafah, causing deaths and injuries among the house residents, and in Alfaluja area, northern Gaza, an Israeli airstrike on a residential building also caused deaths and injuries.In Khan Younis city, several Israeli airstrikes left at least 23 Palestinians killed.Rescue teams were working to pull out bodies under the rubble and to find possible survivors, the reported added.*Writing by Ahmed Asmar Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. Please contact us for subscription options.

27 members of one family (Al-Aidi) were killed in Rafah after violent shelling by the occupation.