We fled [Khan Younis] to al-Mawasi and stayed there, the elderly woman says, seated on a pile of rubble, the black khimar framing her face fluttering lightly in the wind.
When the [Israeli] army pulled back, we came back to our homes but they were all destroyed. There's nothing left at all. We sleep on dirt, Fatmeh says, exasperation dripping from every word.
Shortly after a Hamas-led operation in Israel on October 7 killed 1,139 people and took more than 200 captive, Israel launched an assault on Gaza. It has killed more than 36,000 Palestinians to date with its air attacks and ground assaults.
The destruction is so great that many landmarks disappeared and people struggled to identify where their homes were nothing was recognisable any more.
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