Wednesday, April 7, in the afternoon, Al-Wahda Street in the city of Gaza, usually animated by the fortune markets that have settled there since the start of the war, turned into an open-air hell. A first missile fell on stalls, followed a few minutes later with a strike on a very popular sandwich shop nicknamed “Thailandy”. The images, filmed by local journalists and shared on social networks (the Israeli authorities always prohibit the enclave access to foreign journalists), are unbearable. The terrace of this snack is strewn with bodies overturned with their chair.
Some seem to make their last breath, in a stupor, while panicked survivors run by screaming. ” My God ! My God ! »» A little boy, a traveling seller of coffee, lies on the ground, his eyes open, his coffee maker still placed next to him. A net of blood flows from his skull. Further on, two children desperately shake their father’s inanimate body, shouting with all their might: ” Dad ! Dad ! »» About a hundred meters away, at the Palmyra roundabout, where the first missile struck, the journalist of Al-Jazira Moubasher, Ayman Al-Hei, realizes a direct. “We transmit these trying images of the painful reality that we live in Gaza »»he said, filming in the middle of a crowd in distress.
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