Difficult day from Gaza War - 2014

[يمنى صالح]

One of the most difficult days on my life is Friday 1/8/2014 , when Israeli army hit my city ,Rafah "southern to Gaza Strip " , using huge amounts of bombs and rockets , more than 62 martyrs fell and 200 injuries most of them were from women and children .

I can't imagine how I felt that day , it was so horrible ! thousands of people left their homes .

I stood beside the window at the morning seeing that huge number of people who were coming toward the street where I live thinking that it might be safer for them than where they live ; because my region is nearly far from the borders where tanks stand on , but of course not from the hits of military plane .

I heard tens of voices for ambulances carried the dead and the injured to Al-Kewiti Specialist Hospital . In fact, it is too small hospital and not prepared for recipients that huge number of instances . But why Al-Kewiti hospital ? Because Abo-Yousef Al Najjar Hospital , which is the center hospital in Rafah , was evacuated and this was because the Israeli Army hit it by many rockets and lots of healthy workers were killed and many ambulances were destroyed .
The atmosphere was so disastrous in Al-Kewiti Hospital as I watched on TV screens , no spaces To put injured and dead , healthy workers were so exhausted trying to do their best to help people there .

I don’t forget the moment when the occupation army declared through media that they will isolate Rafah from other cities and will hit it strongly, and they instructed us not to leave our homes using records as phone calls .
Before minutes from that declaration , my family was planning to leave Rafah and to go to my grandmother home in Khan-Younis ,but when we heard that; it was like a shock for us , I felt that I will not leave that day alive and I started to cry .

The driver whom my uncle sent to take us to Khan-Younis came in hastily and left without us telling my uncle he didn’t find us waiting him on the street , actually he doesn’t know the site for our home . He narrated after returning to my grandmother home the story of the two cars which he himself saw when they were targeting by rockets from Israeli plane . Catastrophe was nearly to happen for our driver !