An extraordinary warning call to a Palestinian dentist starts the panicked evacuation of a Gazan neighbourhood.

By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem

The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn.

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

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

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

  • kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social
    71·
    8 months ago

    Certainly there are even more alternatives that exist in the miles wide gap between “raze all of gaza” and “stand idle”.

    First they should try to invest into defense, maybe some sort of air defense system to mitigate the almost daily rocket and missile launches.