‘I wish I had died with them’ – Man laments

On a small road in the middle of Al-Maghazi camp, which is the smallest and most crowded of the refugee camps, there is a big bulldozer that is working hard to clear away the debris from four houses that have been completely destroyed.

Over a hundred people were present during the explosion. The Gaza health ministry believes it happened because of an attack by Israel. The leader of Al-Aqsa hospital states that 52 people died and some others were hurt.

People who lived there tried to use their hands to break through layers of hard cement to save the people stuck under the collapsed building.

Muhammad Al-Alul, a person who takes pictures for the news, lost his wife and four of his kids (three girls and one boy). He only has one son remaining.

“He says he wishes he could have been with them and died together with them,” he tells me.

I was, like always, telling about the quickly developing situation at Al-Aqsa Hospital. All of a sudden, I found out that a raid happened at Al-Maghazi camp. I didn’t think that my children could be trapped in the rubble.

Al-Maghazi is a small place in Gaza where Israel told people in the north to go to be safe from the fighting. However, there are still ongoing airstrikes in the southern region.

Muhammad, a civil defence officer who quickly went to assist, says that there is nowhere safe in Gaza. “They tell the Palestinians to move to the south, but they attack and hurt them all over the place – on the streets, in schools where people go for safety, and even in hospitals. ”

On the street close to where the bomb went off, the people moving around the main market in the camp seem almost like usual. People want to buy the rest of canned food and vegetables that farmers collect from nearby farms.

You see that people walking by look very sad, scared, and unhappy. A lot of people haven’t been able to change their clothes or take a shower for a long time.

An elderly lady yelled at me to stop recording her with a camera. We are good people, but the situation is very hard.

We don’t have any water, bread, or money anymore.

Our regular daily activities have not been happening since October 7th. People here can’t find a simple or fast solution to this problem.