25th July 2014 | Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine
At 9 AM local time, a missile targeted a family home in central Gaza City. The house appeared to have been evacuated, but the shockwave and construction material that was thrown demolished a two-storey house across the street.
Although we were 100 meters away a thin, black dust was raining over us.
According to Ismael who lives in the house, it is home to six families from several generations. There were possibly as many as 60 people in the building at the moment of the strike. Many of them had recently escaped the indiscriminate bombing campaign in Shajiya.
I saw people running out from the house, some of them barefooted, running over shattered glass and stones. One woman was carrying two small children, with a third close to her. Another person was carrying a lifeless child, and then there were two men who were helping an older man escape; he was bleeding a little from his mouth and nose. According to Ismael the child had fainted, and the older man had fallen after parts of the ceiling collapsed on top of him.
I asked Ismael what he was going to do now. He shrugged his shoulders and said that it was going to be all right, but he turned his face away when he said it.
