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Maram Humaid

‘My brothers, my brothers!’: Survivors recall chaos after al-Mawasi attacks

A woman reacts following an Israeli strike on July 13 at a tent camp in the al-Mawasi area, a designated 'safe zone' west of Khan Younis [Hatem Khaled/Reuters]

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – On Saturday morning, Waad Abu Zaher was standing on a crowded street in al-Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip trying to find a donkey cart, minibus or some other transport so she could go to work.

The 30-year-old journalist works out of a media tent at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis and commutes east from a tent camp in al-Mawasi. She lives there with her parents and four brothers, who have been displaced eight times since Israel first issued an evacuation order soon after the war on Gaza began on October 7.

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