GAZA: As Israel's military sent phone messages telling Palestinians to leave some areas of Gaza after Saturday's (Oct 7) deadly Hamas raid, Mohammad Brais did not know where to seek safety from an assault that r
A Palestinian child walks with a bicycle by the rubble of a building after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City on Oct 8, 2023. , Mohammad Brais did not know where to seek safety from an assault that residents expect to be the worst they have ever faced.He had fled his home near a possible front line to shelter at his shop - only for that to get hit in one of the hundreds of air and artillery strikes already pounding Gaza.
At the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, men clambered on a pancaked building to pull an infant's tiny body from the rubble, carrying it down through the crowd below amid still-smouldering remains of bombed buildings. That air strike left dozens killed and injured, according to the territory's health ministry.
At the cemetery a family buried Saad Lubbad, a small boy killed in air strikes. His body, wrapped in white, was passed down to be laid on a patterned cloth before burial. Families began stockpiling food as soon as Saturday's attack began but fear that despite Hamas assurances supplies will run low. Many of the tens of thousands who fled their homes are sheltering in UN schools. At one in Gaza City 13-year-old Israa al-Qishawi pointed to the corner of a classroom where she lays her mattress each night alongside 30 other people.Dressed in green and playing with a hula hoop, she said:"The war came suddenly and we are afraid of it".
Recorded phone messages and social media posts issued by Israel's military warning residents to quit some Gaza areas added to residents' fears.
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