‘Nowhere to run’: Gaza residents sleep in hospitals and streets as Israel flattens neighbourhoods

Residents tell i the streets are filled with people racing to find shelter in schools or medical centres, carrying suitcases, camping mattresses and babies

that he received a notification on Monday night that the building next door to his apartment was an Israeli target.

Three other families forced to leave their homes are also staying at his apartment in Gaza City – now missing its windows after the blast, said Mr Shawa, adding that others are in worse circumstances.“I see people in the street with camping mattresses, a suitcase and a baby on the other shoulder, just wandering the streets trying to find somewhere and somebody to take them in,” said the translator, 55.

Many families are now sheltering in UN schools or the al-Shifa medical centre in Gaza City, she said, although these have been bombed before. Mr Shawa says the toll is particularly severe for the many children living in Gaza, where the average age is 18.

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