Just a year after arriving in his native Gaza from the UK, 13-year-old Omran Abu Assi is hoping for an exit for his family via the Rafah crossing into Egypt, as the realities of the Israel-Hamas war set in.
Abu Assi said he had found life in the Gaza Strip, one of the world's most densely populated places, interesting, but nine days ago his life changed.of Israeli air strikes and missiles, the British passport holder and his family recently settled in Gaza’s southern Khan Younis city, along with hundreds of thousands of other evacuees.
The Israeli military has been pounding the Gaza Strip with unprecedented firepower ever since Palestinian militant group Hamas, which rules the enclave, launched the“The war really has affected Gaza in a horrible way. This.. homes have been destroyed, there’s people sleeping on the streets, you can see rubble nearly everywhere you go," he said.
Authorities in Gaza said at least 2,750 people had so far been killed by the Israeli strikes, a quarter of them children, and nearly 10,000 wounded. Another 1,000 people were missing and believed to be under rubble.
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