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Nidal Al-Mughrabi
Gaza — For many in Gaza, the truce between Israel and the Islamic Jihad after the most severe violence in over a year The news is bittersweet.
When the family hung the laundry on the blasted wall, sifted through the rubble and recovered the documents and furniture they found, others rested their loved ones.
"My life was over when I was martyred," says 45-year-old Najiwa Abuhamada, who was killed when his 19-year-old son Karil went out into the street outside his house and hit a car. I did. Her only child, he was born after 12 years of marriage and five failed in vitro fertilization attempts.
"I promised him that joy would never reach my heart," she said.
At least 44 people, including 15 children, were killed in a 56-hour violence that began on Friday when an Israeli airstrike struck a senior commander of the extremist Islamic extremist movement. More than 360 people were injured in the attacks that continued throughout the weekend, of which 151 children and teens were injured, according to health officials in Gaza.
Israel launches airstrikes as a pre-production of an imminent attack by the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad movement, targeting Islamic Jihad commanders and arsenals and limiting civilian casualties Said he did everything he could.
Correspondingly, the Islamic Jihad fired more than 1,000 rockets at Israel, sending residents of the southern and central regions, including major cities like Tel Aviv, to bomb shelters.
Israel's Iron Dome air defense system prevented serious damage and casualties on its territory, but was blocked, with approximately 2.3 million people living in a 365-square-kilometer plot. There was no such protection against Israel (140 square miles).
"I was shocked to hear the explosion. When I went out, I saw the children dismantled," he said. Wessam Nessim had four nephews killed at the Jabaria refugee camp on Sunday. During the 1948 Israeli War of Creation.
"A child only four years old, why is he targeted?"
Israeli troops said they were investigating the case. The incident took place the day after four children were killed in the same area after Israel said it was an Islamic Jihad rocket that fell off the course and soon to the ground. I have been fired.
According to Israeli authorities, about 20% of rockets launched from Gaza misfired, causing enormous damage and casualties to the strip.
The explanation was rejected by both the Islamic Jihad and Hamas, the radical group governing Gaza, stating that all Palestinian deaths were caused by Israeli strikes.
"This is part of the Zionist psychological warfare against our people to create a division between resistance and the people it defends," said Islamic Jihad spokesman Musab Al.・ Blime said.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, at least 40 families were evacuated and about 650 homes were damaged as a result of the fighting, as well as casualties.
For Muatasem Shamalakh, 28, the house he lived in was partially damaged in the early 2014 war, but is now completely destroyed.
"Where can I go now?" He said.
(Report by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Additional Report and Writing by Henriette Chacar, Edited by James Mackenzie, Alexandra Hudson)
