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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dan Sabbagh in Jerusalem

‘We now just wish to be killed’: the Palestinians under fire in southern Gaza

Photograph of a square with palm trees surroubnded by blocks of flats, with a very large pall of smoke hanging over the area in the background
Smoke rising in Khan Younis, seen in a screengrab obtained from a video released on social media. Photograph: sondos._.abdallah/Instagram via Reuters

On Friday morning, Reham Shaheen had a rare chance to talk to her husband, Muhanad, who had been sheltering with their family in Deir al-Balah, in the southern half of Gaza, shortly after Israel’s military restarted its campaign of bombing.

The aid worker, now in Jordan, had been separated from Muhanad and their three children because of a work trip two days before the war. Now she could do little other than listen to his despair down the line as Israel’s air force struck again and again.

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