on saturday october 7th, the palestinian resistance group hamas launched the biggest attack on israel in years, a surprise assault in which gunmen crossed into several israeli towns while heavy. barros of rockets fired

from the gaza strip. in a matter of minutes, over 5,000 rockets were fired, targeting ashdod and tel aviv, effectively bringing the regime to a grinding halt. the attack marked an unprecedented infiltration by an unknown number of hamas gunmen into israel from gaza and one of the most serious escalations in the israeli palestinian conflict in years. on sunday october 8th, hamas military wing media published a video unveiling. drones the group

used to pave the way for the infiltration into the israeli side. a mask said the operation was a response to israeli attacks on women, the desicration of the alaxso mask in alts, and the ongoing siege of gaza. the broad military operation initiated by the ziddin al-qassam brigades, the arm wing of the hamas movement came in the context of the continuation of the palestinian national struggle, in accordance with international law and response to the daily occupation attacks against al-aqsa mosk and against the citizens there as well as occupation daily killings in the west bank and for the sake of

liberating palestinian prisoners in occupation prisons. david friedman, the former us ambassador to tel aviv during the trump administration, expressed astonishment over the hamas operation this way. i've never seen the border breached in this manner. usually, even one person from gaza gets closer to the border, they are intercepted and neutralized long before they can do anything. this is just something i've never seen before, it's of course a large intelligence failure. in response to the attack, israel declared war and launched operations swords of iron on gaza battering palestinians with deadly air strikes in gaza. what happened was is complete destruction. we are albabab family and there were 150 people.

at this building, including my uncle's family, my sister family, family of my uncles, whose houses were destroyed, it is not suitable to stay in now, they are residing with or relatives, or friends and beloved ones, this is sabrin abuck from the rubble of the houses, strucken khanus, she learned in hospital that three of her children had been killed, two of them had been. i was at home and suddenly we heard a sound and everything fell over our heads, my children were next to me, one of them was next to my legs and the others were next to me. my brother saber was a bit further, nothing happened to him. i was hiding behind the sofa and the door, so there was no pressure on me, only on my leg, but i didn't hear any. any sound coming from my children,

i called them, but didn't hear a sound coming from them. suddenly heard my brother sab calling. the first moment heard his voice, i shouted and i said, i'm here, and when they were. recognized me, they started calming me down, and then they started removing the rubble from above me. it took them three hours to remove the rubble above me, but my children died. khalid died, khais died, mariam died. asif went missing. when they pulled me out of the rubble, i saw everything damaged, the houses are damaged, that's the only thing i saw, and then i went to the hospital. i found that everybody was injured. we have many injured and dead people. abu dhaqa and residents of three other homes destroyed in the air strikes said they had received no forwarning from israel, saying this was different from previous rounds of bombardment during which israeli forces had called residents telling them to evacuate in advance of attack. the regime however says

civilians in gaza have been told to leave the residential area. is immediately for their safety. prime minister netanyahu had tweeted on saturday telling residents of gaza to leave now because we will operate forcefully everywhere. where is the idea of where people in gaza will go? this is something also that uh we have been discussing with our counterparts in israel and with our counterparts in egypt uh and without getting into the specifics of uh safe passage for civilians and so forth. i will say it's something that the us government. with in supporting how we do that operationally uh, but the details of that are something that uh are being discussed among the the operational agencies and i don't want to share too much of that publicly at this time. sitting on the ground in dismay in front of dead bodies

wrapped in white sheets, gazan ala al-kafarna, who lost eight family members, said he was the only survivor. cafarna injured. and with his arm in a cast fled two locations with his family before being hit by an israeli air strike that killed his pregnant wife, his brother, father, two cousins and two extended family members. we received a message to leave bait hanon town, so we went to beach refugee camp, they threaten the building we were in, so we went to find safety in the beach camp, but the building we were in was also threatened so we had to move to sheikhwan town where we stayed in an apartment there, suddenly around 4 am, a strike hit us and we don't know why we have done nothing, and that's all. the israeli

military on friday, october 13th called on all civilians in gaza city to evacuate southwards as it maintains its bombardment of the coastal enclave. that would involve moving more than 1.1 million people from the north to the south of the besseged enclave in 24 hours, task that experts say is impossible without causing major humanitarian consequences. nowhere in gaza is safe, and this is the general feeling of the entire population, not only myself. i i had to move my family for three times, so far in the last 24 hours, based on information shared for larger communities. gaza by the uh israeli authorities or the idf uh asking them to move and evacuate this area and go to another area without clear instructions or safe passages and this is a concern for for the public but

also for for the icrs um the lack of clear instructions and safe passages could lead to more devastation or civilian loss, especially when we are witnessing intensified you know uh round of escalation or and air strikes. between october 7th and 12th, israel dropped 6,000 bombs on the impoverished territory, equivalent to the total number of air strikes in gaza during the entire 2014 gaza israel conflict, which lasted 50 days. according to the latest updates, total of 159 housing units in 13 apartment buildings have been completely destroyed, additionally approximately 1,200 housing units in 36 residential buildings have become totally uninhabitable. at the same time, the israeli

regime has imposed a complete siege on gaza, blocking delivery of electricity, food, fuel and water. a humanitarian. crisis in gaza is rapidly spiraling, amid warnings that people are at risk of starvation as israel tightens its chokehold on the territory. hospitals are also expected to run out of... fuel leading to catastrophic conditions. human rights groups have meanwhile warned of possible war crimes being committed by israel in gaza. as of friday, october 13th, the death doll from the israeli war on gaza rose to 2,215, including 724 children, at least 420. 33,00 people were forced to flee their homes in the gaza strip, according to the united nations.

even as the fighting is taking a dramatic turn, bringing critical danger to civilians, people in gaza still express support for palestinian forces. we woke to the sounds of explosions with. fear and panic prevailing everywhere, people on the palestinian streets are tense and terrified and no one knows what the coming days will bring? we are uncertain whether we will survive this night and see the down of new day. i came here to purchase food and supplies for my family to prepare for this sudden situation. we support the resistant efforts and standing solidarity with them. we all hope that they will successfully reach the city of jerusalem in their mission.