'The thought of closing my eyes and never waking up haunts me.'
A woman holding a girl reacts after Israeli airstrikes hit Ridwan neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza, on Oct. 23. Photo: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Imagesof the Hamas-run government. The besieged enclave has been under heavy bombardment in the two weeks since Hamas militants killed 1,400 Israelis in the worst attack against Israel in decades.
The border crossing remains closed to Palestinians who may wish to leave. Even before the latest fighting, Palestinians had to get special permission from Israel or Egypt to leave the enclave, which was often difficult to receive.The 27-year-old tells Axios that she and her husband fled Gaza City and went to the southern part of the Strip after Israeli airstrikes devastated her neighborhood.
"We could only take essential documents leaving behind the memories and meaningful gifts that made our house a home. It was heartbreaking to leave everything behind just like that."a professor at Al-Aqsa University, says he was also forced to flee Gaza City with his wife and two daughters after much of his neighborhood was "flattened to the ground" by Israeli air raids.
Hospitals continue to face repeated warnings to evacuate, but health workers and aid groups say it's impossible, with the World Health OrganizationA view of a toy between the rubbles of a destroyed residential building after the Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, Gaza on Oct. 18.
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