Deir el-Balah, Gaza – Rima Khamis, a 34-year-old mother of three, had just gotten to her parents’ house for a visit on Sunday evening.
She lived in the north of Gaza City and had come to the Daraj neighbourhood in the centre to see her sick mother.
‘Just started running’
“I started trying to call my husband to tell him what happened, to no avail,” Rima told Al Jazeera over phone messages.
Not knowing what was going to happen, she grabbed her children and a few belongings she could find and “just started running towards the north of the city”.
Rima’s mother, who is unwell and cannot move on her own, could not leave with her because she had to wait till her sons could source a wheelchair for her.
As she rushed her children through the street to try to get to her in-laws’ home, Rima registered snapshots of a mass forced displacement.
“Most of the people around me were wandering around, they didn’t know where they were going.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
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