What We Are Hearing From People in Gaza
Diana: I just got off the phone with people in Gaza – phone lines (land) are working but no cell phones. They are absolutely terrified. My friend is crouched in her neighbour’s apartment and while I was on the phone with her (for 2 minutes) there were 5 blasts. She said that they are attacking from air and from sea and I heard one of the large explosions. She said that the building shook.
She is terrified that they are going to kill her or her brother (who is not Hamas, Fatah or anything) and fears that they are going to bomb her building because she lives opposite UNRWA and near Saraya.
I’ll keep calling her through the evening. It’s going to be a long night.
Mohammad: No cell phones working in Gaza City. Just got off with khan younis… no invasion there yet, and cell phones are working ok. No power though, and continuous air strikes.
Got through the landline to Gaza City. In addition to air strikes absolutely everywhere, the attack helicopters have turned on their machine guns. The huge explosion I talked about earlier had targeted a gas station supplying heating gas. neighbors gathered together in my Uncle’s apartment. Adults are too terrified to try and sleep.
Diana: I just got off the phone with another friend in Gaza. She said to me that she received about 20 calls today from Egyptians and Jordanians (cold calls), telling her that they support Gaza and the Palestinians and telling her to stay strong. She said it made her day. Amazing…
