A day after an Israeli airstrike thundered across a densely populated Gaza Strip neighborhood, Palestinians trying to reach family members there to learn their fates were met largely with unnerving silence.
“May God protect Gaza and its people.”“This is getting more insane every day,” Yousef Hammash, an employee of the Norwegian Refugee Council who was born in the Jabaliya neighborhood hit by the airstrike, said Wednesday.
Mr. Hammash, who is now taking shelter in southern Gaza, said continuing communications outages were adding exponentially to the anguish of living amid deprivation and death.
Sousan Hammad, 38, a writer and teacher in Brooklyn, said she had been frantically trying to reach family members in Jabaliya.
Rescue workers and residents can be seen digging through the rubble and carrying what appear to be injured and dead people, including children.
Persons:
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Organizations:
Norwegian Refugee Council, Ministry, The New York Times
Locations:
Gaza, Brooklyn, Jabaliya, United States, Israel, Falluja