"We are trapped in a box, not knowing what will happen next,” displaced Gaza teacher tells CNN
A history teacher who has fled Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza after Israel launched its third invasion of the area said the last nine days were worse than “a year’s worth of suffering.”
“The scale of hardship and exhaustion has multiplied many times over,” Mohammad Ibrahim told CNN on Sunday, a day after he was forced to leave Jabalya for Gaza City. “The feeling of helplessness has doubled; we are trapped in a box, not knowing what will happen next,” he said.
Ibrahim told CNN most of the houses in Gaza City, where many people have fled from Jabalya, are destroyed, adding that the situation is much harder than he expected. He said military planes and drones keep flying overhead and tanks and artillery strikes are a “constant presence” in the area. He also said that the only bakery in northern Gaza burnt down after it was bombed.
“Everything is filled with hardship, suffering, exhaustion, fear and danger,” he said. “Today, I am a billion percent sure that death is the only comfort for a person because we have no options left. Every part of our bodies is exhausted and in need of rest.”
Ibrahim said the Israeli army was advancing “from all directions, making it impossible to know where to go or how to escape.”
Some 300 people have been killed in the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza since the beginning of the latest Israeli ground operation in the area nine days ago, the Gaza Government Media Office said Sunday.
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