Israeli attacks continue to pound Gaza
July 23, 2014
While United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has remarked that Israeli strikes may fall under War Crimes, the Palestinians on ground continue to live in fear.
Speaking to Geo.tv from Gaza, Dahlan a victim who lost his home to Israeli bombing on Monday revealed the helplessness in his messages.
“Everything [is] happening very fast here in Gaza, it feels like a dream” he wrote.
Many more like Dahlan, are forced to live in constant fear of when the next strike will be sounded and whether the next evacuation will be in time.
Sharing the details of the bombing that took away his home he wrote, how his family was waiting for Iftar, when Israel fired 2 warning rockets starting a 10 minute countdown to evacuate the house or die.
He wrote, “a house which contains 4 families with children, women and old people. Everyone started running and panicking, my mom fainted on the staircase, I carried her with my younger brother, we [only] few meters far from the house when a second warning rocket struck again.”
His message ends with, “a few minutes later a missile wiped out the house before our eyes.”
AFP adds:
The UN Human Rights Council launched a probe on Wednesday into Israel´s Gaza offensive, backing efforts by the Palestinians to hold the Jewish state up to international scrutiny. The 46-member council backed a Palestinian-drafted resolution by 29 votes, with Arab and fellow Muslim countries joined by China, Russia and Latin American and African nations.
The United States was the sole member to vote against, while European countries abstained from the vote.
