An 18-year-old Palestinian girl and her family fled the continuous Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City and found refuge in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. However, the shelter she and her brother Hamza thought was safe was bombed by Israeli planes, killing 13 of their relatives, including their parents, seven siblings and four members of their uncle’s family.

When the Israeli army told Palestinians in the Beach refugee camp in Gaza City to flee south because it was safer there, the family of 18-year-old Dima Al-Lamdani prayed to escape the merciless airstrikes, Reuters writes.

But a few days later, Dima recognized the bodies of his relatives in a temporary morgue in the southern city of Khan Yunis. She said she lost her parents, seven siblings and four members of her uncle’s family in an Israeli airstrike.

“They told us to evacuate the house and go to Khan Yunis because it is safe… They betrayed us and bombed us,” she said.

The teenager said her family and her uncle’s family were driving two cars through Gaza, which has been hit by the heaviest bombardment since the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, killing around 1,400 people and taking more than 220 hostages. .

“Everyone around me was screaming”

The young woman’s family was in a temporary shelter in Khan Yunis when the attack took place.

“At 4:30 in the morning I was sitting with my aunt and drinking coffee. Suddenly I found myself in the middle of ruins. Everyone around me was screaming, so I was screaming too.”

Lamdani, whose face was scratched and bruised, said after searching her family members at the morgue on October 17 that only her brother and two cousins ​​had survived, but they were injured.

“It’s a nightmare. It will never be erased from my memory,” she said. “I had a sister for 16 years. They wrote my name on the white sheet in which they wrapped her body, they thought it was me,” Dima said.

The Israeli military called on the population to “stay away from the targets of Hamas terrorists”

An Israeli military spokesman said: “The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) encouraged residents of northern Gaza to move south and stay away from Hamas terrorist targets in Gaza City.

“But eventually Hamas established itself among the civilian population throughout the Gaza Strip. So whenever a Hamas target appears, the IDF will strike it to disrupt the group’s terrorist capabilities while taking possible precautions to reduce harm to uninvolved civilians.”

Health authorities in Gaza said more than 5,000 people had been killed and more than 15,000 injured in two weeks of Israeli bombardment.

After October 7, Israel imposed a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, which ran out of water, food, medicine and fuel for 2.3 million residents.

Reuters: Third humanitarian convoy in Rafah

Aid workers and security sources told Reuters on Monday that a third convoy of aid trucks had entered Egypt’s Rafah crossing heading to Gaza.

Rafah is the main crossing point for entry and exit from Gaza, which does not share a border with Israel.

UN officials say Gaza needs about 100 trucks a day to meet basic needs. On Saturday and Sunday, 34 trucks passed.

Aid flows through Rafah began on Saturday after disputes over aid inspection procedures and shelling on the Gaza side of the border left aid supplies stuck in Egypt.