- Many of the martyrs from khuzaa were injured and were then left to bleed waiting to be rescured. I watched from the window in my room, for hours, all the stages of the death of a twenty year old man - One doctor in the town, Kamal Abu-Rujaila, did all he could to save the injured who managed to reach his clinic, even after his clinic was bombed, he was injured and his father was martyred -The [Israeli] army used around 10 families as human shields against the fire from the Resistance. In all the buildings it gained control of, the army forbade all residents to leave or to take shelter is safer rooms - The house I was taking refuge in, along with 50 other men, women and children was shelled. My family and I survived by a miracle, and I have no idea what happened to the others, but my shoe was soaked in their blood -Under the cover of smoke and debris we were able to reach our home. A few minutes later the house was shelled with three bombs that set it on fire and caused me a slight injury -We went out to the street almost unconscious, the sight of devastation was terrifying, shelling all around us, we tried walking towards the edges of town but helicopters opened gun fire on us -With my own eyes, I saw a little boy fall from his mothers hand, she held him in one hand and held a white flag in another. The boy died, she wrapped him in the flag and continued fleeing with her other children. - In the road we passed through, we found my uncles body, along with his sons stretched in the street outside their house. snipers were targeting people, shooting them in their feet to prevent them from escaping - [The residential quarter of] Khuzaa has had no electricity for 60 hours, the [Israeli] army targeted water supplies on building tops. The children among us were crying themselves unconscious because of thirst - The [Israeli] artillery was firing at random, no one in the world can convince me otherwise - My cousin was martyred trying to save his injured brother who was lying down in the street, both died one on top of the other - A man who was injured in his thigh, walked with me for 2 kilometers to where the medical aid was, and when he arrived I heard him shout out: May God take vengeance on Israel, on Egypt, On the [red] Cross and on God himself! - It was terrifying and tragic, any attempt to put it in words would not be enough, my family and I made it alive but I dont have the least explanation as to how that happened. - All these deaths and injuries happened among a population of 3000, those were the ones who remained in Khuzaa, 70% of the residents had been able to evacuate and escape the night before the massacre - There are still bodies in the streets, and there are still many who are injured, waiting to become bodies, and there are still people who are stuck and cant escape. Testimony of Mahmoud Ismael, resident of the Gazan quarter/town of Khuzaa. The Translation into English is mine, from a set of Arabic tweets he published on his account: https://twitter/ibn3arbi today thursday the 24th of July 2014 clarifications between square brackets [] are mine. Please translate this account to any language you know and share it.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:52:55 +0000
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