Mithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.
The leaflets gently floated from the sky early Friday, but the message for Palestinians living in Gaza City couldn’t have been more forceful. “Gaza City has turned into a battlefield,” they said in Arabic. “You have to leave your homes immediately and head south of Wadi Gaza,” they added, referring to the small river which bisects the Gaza Strip. “For your safety: Don’t return to your homes until further notice from the Israeli Defence Forces.
Rahaf Abuzarifa, 21, said the Red Cross had advised her family to leave their home in the small southern city of Abasan, after an Israeli airstrike obliterated a nearby house on Tuesday. “I have a survival mode backpack wherever I go. So it’s always ready,” Abuzarifa, 21, told NBC News by telephone Wednesday, adding that it contained essentials like clothes, a first-aid kit and identification documents, as well as a Swiss Army Knife, her schoolwork and letters from her friends.
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