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”.

  • @Kedly
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    27 months ago

    Post it anyways and block all of the disgusting comments afterwards, you’ll be gradually cleaning up your Lemmy experience as you do

    • @Risk@feddit.uk
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      17 months ago

      See, on one hand that seems like a good idea, but whilst people can have reprehensible views on one topic they might also have reasonable contributions for another.

      • @Kedly
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        37 months ago

        Fair enough!