”We are evacuating, everyone we know is evacuating. Where to? We have no idea. There’s no electricity. We are running out of clean water. The food supplies are running out. The medical supplies are running out. They’re basically bombing everywhere. It’s literally a humanitarian crisis.” ”Also in a place far away from the window — [explosions] The past few days, like, are like nothing like I ever experienced in my life. The situation is just getting horrible and worse day by minute. I thought we’re used to wars you know, I know that’s such a horrible sentence to use, but I’m 22 years old. I witnessed four wars before. But what is happening, it’s like families are being erased. Whole neighborhoods are being erased. They bombed an apartment inside the building I was in. The building was burning, but we didn’t know that. Palestinian Civil Defense, they came. They took us out, and they took us — they were like, OK, just run to the nearest hospital, you know. The street was so bombed, so destroyed, endless, you know, you just keep evacuating, evacuating, evacuate, like evacuate and go where exactly? There is literally no safe place.” “The situation has been escalating quickly from the wiped-out neighborhoods or the hundreds of people who’ve been killed. The hospitals are at full capacity. Internet has been cut many times, and during those times I felt that I was completely trapped. I think our phones are giving us just like a small window out. No one expected for the loss to be this big, this intense. There are basically two functioning streets, right now. The rest has been bombed. Those two have not been bombed yet. Another bomb, as we speak. Entire neighborhoods have been bombed. I feel like I do not recognize my own city anymore. The pretty city that we built again for the thousandth time has been destructed again. It just feels like you are going to die next. It’s just a matter of sheer luck at this moment.”
