Youssef Ruzzi and his family were awakened at two o’clock during the night towards Tuesday by a strong explosion, just a few hundred meters from the refugee camp where they were sleeping.
– I feel anxious, both for my own part and for my family, says Youssef Ruzzi.
As soon as it got bright, Youssef Ruzzi went to a hospital where dead and injured poured in. There he met a mother who just got help to pull out his son alive from the masses.
– His sister hovers between life and death. We pray for her surviving, said her mother Umm Abdullah Abu Aisha.
Youssef Ruzzi is now trying to calm his children.
– But they have learned that the whole Gaza Strip is a dangerous place, he says.
Netanyahu: “Is just the beginning”
More than 400 people must have been killed in Israel’s offensive that broke the ceasefire the night before Tuesday, Hamas -controlled health authorities report. Of these, over 130 are children, according to the UN Children’s Rights Organization UNICEF. It makes the day the deadliest for children in Gaza in over a year.
According to Israel, the attacks are due to Hamas refusing to release the hostage that is still in captivity.
The night’s air strike “is just the beginning,” and Israel will resume the battles in Gaza with full force, said Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a speech on Tuesday night.
“Has the war come back?” Hear SVT’s photographer about how he tries to calm the children after the night’s attacks in Gaza.