Mohammed Ghalayini awoke to the sound of outgoing rocket fire. It was 6am on Saturday 7 October, and his first thought was how surreal the rockets sounded in the beautiful morning sky over Gaza City.
He soon saw that things were going to be different this time, not like the previous Israeli attacks on the enclave. “When I saw videos of Israeli hostages being brought into Gaza and Israeli military vehicles that had been seized, I twigged it was something big,” he said. Ghalayini, his mother Mona, and his sister Sondos fearfully wondered whether they should move.
