'Families want to die together': relatives count the cost of Gaza airstrikes - Guardian
The first call informing Fares Alghoul that a relative’s home had been hit by an Israeli airstrike arrived late on a Friday. The internet in Gaza was cut only moments later, forcing him to wait 12 hours to learn the names of the 18 dead. He would have to wait even longer for the confirmation that a further 18 family members stuck under the rubble had also been killed, bringing his family’s death toll to 36.
As a journalist, Alghoul has covered all Gaza’s previous wars but now lives in Canada, where he has had to watch from a distance as generations of his family are wiped out.
Families suffering such large losses have become a feature of the current bombardment of Gaza. According to the latest statistics provided by the Palestinian health ministry in the territory, 312 families have lost 10 or more members.
At least 70% of Gaza’s population has been displaced, according to the UN, and many families have clustered together, crowding dozens of them into their homes in the hope they can avoid the heavy bombardment or at least pool increasingly scarce resources such as water, fuel and food.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/12/relatives-count-cost-gaza-airstrikes-israeli-missiles-apartment-blocks-survivors
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