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Maram Humaid

‘I was a human shield’: What Israeli soldiers did to a Gaza father

Yousef al-Masri [Ahmed Hamdan/Al Jazeera]

Gaza City – On October 19, hundreds of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza’s Hamad School in Beit Lahiya heard what everyone in the Palestinian enclave dreads.

“At dawn, we heard [Israeli] tanks encircling the school, and quadcopters overhead began ordering everyone to get out,” Amal al-Masri, 30, who had given birth to her youngest daughter so recently she had not named her yet when the tanks came, recalled.

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