Istanbul CNN —Sara Khreis replays the last day she spent with her mother over and over in her mind.
Suddenly, they heard their neighbors outside screaming that an evacuation route had been organized: “Come on, get out, come on, get out!”Sara with her mother, Hala.
Then they were on the street outside, joining a wave of other people holding white flags aloft: a universal symbol of surrender.
The clip of Hala’s killing is one of a growing number that show unarmed civilians holding white flags being shot dead in Gaza.
His father, holding a white flag, could be seen crying over his body.
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