Special envoy to Gaza
Of this three-storey building in an upscale residential area of Gaza, almost nothing remains.
A pile of rubble, a mountain of sand, pieces of wood that look like the remains of furniture and metal structures that belonged to a bed.
Everything that is still standing almost collapses.
Ghada Khalifa survived, but still can't believe it.
The 62-year-old Palestinian woman had been living in this house for years, with ten people - her sons, their wives and her grandchildren - before she was targeted by an Israeli army strike at midday last Saturday , on the second day of a deadly escalation in Gaza caused by an Israeli offensive against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, concluded by a truce on August 7 in the evening.
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“We were all sitting together when the neighbors told us that they had been called and that this house had to be evacuated. We literally walked out barefoot, leaving everything…
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