– I sit with the same feeling of powerlessness, as when what had happened started to take effect after 22 July. This is what Israeli Amram Hadida told news after Hamas launched an extensive rocket attack against Israel on Saturday morning. The Israelis have counter-attacked Gaza, and many civilians have been killed on both sides. – I had a lot of thoughts at the weekend, when I woke up to many messages on Whatsapp from the family about what is going on down there. Friends and acquaintances “kill and hurt” Hadida emigrated from Israel to Norway in 1985, and lives in Stord. He has managed to take care of the closest members of his family who still live there. They are safe. But he has received messages from several people who grew up in the same kibbutz as him. There, many have been badly affected by the violence. – Several dozen of my friends and acquaintances, people I have known for many years, have been killed and injured. Several of them have been kidnapped into Gaza. – It is simply hell, what has happened. – The whole town was on fire Maria Hassan Abdallah (16) came to Norway from Gaza when she was three years old, and still lives today in Stord. When the family house was destroyed in a bomb attack, her mother decided that they had to flee. Her aunt is still in Gaza. Now the family in Norway is forced to follow what is happening on social media. Not on the news, but on videos they receive from people in the area. – Yesterday I saw that the whole city was on fire, because there was so much bombing, she told news. Flames and smoke dominated the horizon in Gaza early Monday morning. Photo: MOHAMMED SALEM / Reuters – Painful to see – It’s not Hamas, it’s Palestinian civilians. There are civilian Gazans, their families and children. My family. I feel so powerless. She says that she has made contact with people she knows in her hometown after the wall broke loose, one of them most recently yesterday. – I sent a message and asked: “Are you okay? I look at the news and get restless.” He said, “Thank God, I’m fine. But there are several in the family who have died”. – It’s just painful to see, at least when you’re in Norway. Here I am, safe from everything, but I know it’s not like that down there. There will probably be chaos going forward as well. More than a thousand are said to have been killed. The campaign continued in several places in the area on Monday. More than 900 Israelis will be killed, and at least 560 Palestinians. Thousands are wounded on both sides. Israel has announced a “full blockade” against Gaza, and claims to have taken back control in the area that lies close to the border, and which Hamas has entered since Saturday. These are the remains of a mosque in the Shati refugee camp after an Israeli bomb attack early Monday. Photo: Hatem Moussa / AP At the same time, the Israeli authorities are calling in 300,000 reserve soldiers. There are still reports of shooting in the border area between Israel and Lebanon.
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– Simply hell – news Vestland
