The magnitude of the devastation among those boulevards full of beauty salons, falafel shops and pizzerias had symbolic significance for Gazans.
Scenes of violence and destruction in the long-blockaded Gaza Strip have filled the world’s airwaves throughout four wars and countless rounds of hostilities between Israel and Hamas militants. But this conflict, Palestinians say, is different.
Israeli bombs blew out walls and ripped off roofs of upper-class apartment towers. They toppled trees that had lined the sidewalks. They uprooted streets that had teemed with businessmen hustling to work and vendors hawking roasted nuts. They levelled mosques and university buildings and wrecked high-rise offices of companies and organisations like Gaza’s main telecommunications company and Bar Association.
After Gaza’s Hamas rulers mounted the deadliest attack on Israel in decades, killing more than 1000 people and taking dozens more hostage in a multi-pronged offensive, Israel unleashed what Gaza residents described as the most intense bombing campaign in recent memory, with hundreds of airstrikes on Monday night.“These sounds are different,” 30-year-old Saman Ashour in Gaza City texted as she lay awake in a neighbourhood north of Rimal, listening to the roar of explosions.
Most Palestinian civilians did not evacuate. There are no bomb shelters. Israel and Egypt tightly control the enclave’s borders and have not let anyone out. UN shelters are rapidly filling up.
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