Many Palestinians in Gaza who heeded the Israeli military’s warning last week to head south thought they were fleeing to a safer place
When Omar Khodari and his family heeded the Israeli military’s warning last week advising them to head from the northern Gaza Strip to the south, they thought they were fleeing to a safer place. They figured they would wait out the airstrikes in the southern town of Khan Younis and go back home when calm returned to Gaza City, Khodari's relatives said. But the explosions followed them like a slow-moving thunderstorm.
They remain in intensive care. There was one factor that determined who lived and who died, said Khodari's cousin, Sami Khodari. When they heard explosions nearby, the family ran in opposite directions in the house to seek shelter. Khodari grabbed two of his children and went right. The strike hit that side of the house. “Everywhere you go in Gaza these days you're a walking target,” Sami Khodari said. “Your fate is only in God's hands.
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