An extraordinary warning call to a Palestinian dentist starts the panicked evacuation of a Gazan neighbourhood.

By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem

The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn.

It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight.

He’d been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.

He’d heard a rising clamour outside. People were screaming. “You need to escape,” somebody in the street shouted, “because they will bomb the towers”.

  • MonkderZweite@feddit.chEnglish
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    1 year ago

    He said, ‘There are some things that we see that you don’t see.’"

    The man did not explain what he meant.

    “It is an order from people bigger than me and you, and we have an order to bomb,” the voice added, according to Mahmoud.

    “with a Bigger head” you mean.