The shocking mobile phone video shows a small silhouette from Sheikh Khalil, wandering through the rubble, and its shelter gathered in the fire around it, after a file The Israeli strike She struck the school as she and her family escaped to escape the war around them Gaza Strip.
Khalil, only 5 years, survived. Her mother and five of her brothers did not come out of the burning building.
When she returned to the scene of the attack, Falib found her abandoned sister and collapsed.
“They all died after a missile landed,” she told the CBS News in Gaza through tears. “The missile came down and the place was burning. The fire was raging. He burned my arms.”
“The fire filled the sky and the earth,” she said. “I was asleep, but I got out of the fire. When I went out, I did not find my father. They took me to the Baptist Hospital, and I saw my father on the way, in the ambulance. I saw him. He had many wounds on his face.”
“My father is alive, my brother Siraj alive, I am alive. That’s it. But all my other brothers have died,” said the little girl, who carried her cousins, to CBS News. “I hope we meet again.”
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The Israeli strike took place in the middle of the night. The Israeli Defense Forces said that the goal was a center for leadership and control in Hamas inside the school building.
Hamas -controlled rescuers said that the strike was killed 33 people.
European Union President Ursula von der Lin described the “abhorrent” attack on Tuesday during a call with King Abdullah II from Jordan, according to a reading of the call from the European Union, which was killed by AFP.
Von der Lin said, “The expansion of Israel’s military operations in Gaza is targeting civil infrastructure, including a school that was a shelter for displaced Palestinian families, killing civilians, including children, is hateful,” said von der Lin. “The European Commission has always supported-and it will continue to support-Israel’s right to security and self-defense. But this escalation and useless use of force against civilians cannot be justified under humanitarian and international law.”
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Iyad Mohamed Sheikh Khalil, who holds his niece, told CBS News that his entire family had been displaced from the war, including his brother who requested shelter with his wife and children at school in the Darja neighborhood in Gaza City.
When he heard reports of a school strike, he immediately tried to call.
“Some pictures were released in the media. When I looked at them, I saw a mob with the civil defense. I immediately knew that she was my brother’s daughter,” he said. “When I came, I saw that the bodies of my brother’s family were all charred and torn into cutting.
He was concerned about the constant influence of living through such a shock to the children of Gaza, including his niece.
“When they come out of such bombing and such a war, how do you want children to feel? They should be in a terrible psychological state. We are not even in a terrible psychological state,” he told CBS News.
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Amid the bombings, Palestinians in Gaza also face a crucial struggle to find food, nearly three months after the Israeli blockade of all humanitarian goods entering the region.
Under pressure from its allies, including the United States, Israel began to allow some humanitarian goods to enter Gaza last week, but relief agencies say they are almost enough to meet the needs of a pocket of nearly two million people.
The newly -established Gaza Humanitarian Foundation by the United States and Israel He said he started distributing food on monday. GHF said on Tuesday that it had distributed a total of about 4,62,000 meals over two days of operation.
The United Nations and other relief organizations objected to the group’s methods, describing it as distraction.
“Even when they bring help, nothing arrives at us,” said Islam Abu Timea while searching for food with her child in Gaza this week. “We are like stray dogs that collect food from garbage. If we do not, we succeed.”
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