GAZA — As Israel’s campaign against the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza moved into its second day on Saturday, residents of houses targeted for…
“What can we do with 15 minutes?” said 68-year-old Nadia Shamalakh, who cares for four disabled sons and daughters in Gaza. “We took nothing away with us.”
“I fell to the ground three times because I had undergone surgery in my leg, while others helped my children in wheelchairs to move away,” Shamalakh said, as she sat on a pile of rubble next to where her home had stood.Article content According to local health officials, Israeli planes bombed at least eight houses across the enclave, wounding dozens of people and leaving many families homeless in a widening of the campaign of strikes launched on Friday.
Israeli officials say that both Hamas, the militant group which rules the Gaza Strip, and the smaller Islamic Jihad conceal weapons in residential areas, using the presence of civilians as cover to deter strikes. An Islamic Jihad official rejected the allegation as “a Zionist attempt to justify their crimes against civilians.”
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