Rami lives in Gaza with his wife and son. At 5:41 a.m. on Sunday, the channel’s return allowed him to send Franceinfo a message reporting the bombings.
They have been cut off from the world since Friday, October 27, at 5:30 p.m., when the Israeli army began shelling the Gaza Strip. But on the night of October 28-29, the network began returning to the Palestinian enclave after 36 hours without access to internet, telephone, electricity and information.
Rami lives in Gaza with his wife and son. His first message came to us at 5:41 am. “Everything was interrupted all at once. Everyone’s panicking because we’re like, ‘Well, what’s going on?’ It’s the first time. We didn’t understand anything,” he says.
“It was pounding every minute. It was too strong, too much,” Rami continues. I took my child and my wife’s hand, we shook hands and said goodbye. We said, “It’s our turn, we’ll do it.” Go in peace and with dignity. There was bombing all night long.”
“It really was hell. There is no description except hell. I have lived through several wars, but this is really unheard of. The night was red. We only saw red and only heard bombings.”
Rami, resident in Gaza
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“We were cut off from the world. We didn’t know who died, who was alive, where it hit, where it bombed? It was really ‘Gaza-strophic’. It’s not catastrophic, it’s Gaza, it’s a catastrophe. “It was really hell,” says Rami.
The Israeli army claims to have killed 55 senior Hamas officials and many other Islamist fighters. It claims to have targeted 450 targets in the last 24 hours. Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated yesterday that the prime minister had decided to expand the ground offensive. According to an army spokesman, the northern Gaza Strip has become a battlefield that civilians must evacuate as quickly as possible.
In this context, the families of the Israeli hostages are demonstrating loudly against this intensification of military operations because they fear for their loved ones. Thousands of demonstrators in Tel Aviv yesterday evening called for negotiations to begin as quickly as possible. The mobilization is global. It now affects the Israeli diaspora. Hamas proposed a prisoner swap of more than 200 hostages for more than 5,000 Palestinian prisoners. The Jewish state refuses for now.
The statement of Rami, who lives in Gaza, about the Israeli bombings of the last few days
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