GAZA: On foot, by horse-drawn cart and clinging to the sides of overcrowded trucks, Palestinians on Sunday fled southwards through Gaza to escape Israeli airstrikes, telling of their fear, despair and bitter sense of abandonment.
“Nowhere is safe in Gaza. My son was injured and there was not a single hospital I could take him to so he could get stitches,” said displaced Palestinian Ahmed Al-Kahlout.
“There is no water, there isn’t even salt water we can wash our hands with.”
He had been forced to leave his home to search for basic necessities for his family while “bodies are filling Gaza’s streets.”
There are still people hoping the conflict will be solved soon, he said.
“But only God knows if it’ll be solved. The whole world has let us down; the progressive world that boasts about human rights has let us down.”
Also heading south, a Palestinian woman, Mariam Al-Borno, said death, displacement, and hunger had forced her and her children to leave home “to flee for our lives.”
