Rami lives in Gaza with his wife and son. At 5:41 a.m. Sunday October 29, the return of the network allowed him to send Franceinfo a message in which he recounts the bombings.
They had been cut off from the world since Friday, October 27, at 5:30 p.m., when the Israeli army began shelling the Gaza Strip. But on the night of October 28 to 29, the network began to return to the Palestinian enclave, deprived for 36 hours of Internet, telephone, electricity, and information.
Rami lives in Gaza, with his wife and son. His first message reached us at 5:41 a.m. “Everything was cut off at once. Everyone is panicking because we were like ‘well, what’s going on?’ It’s the first time. We didn’t understand anything.”he says.
“It was pounding every minute. It was too strong, too too strongcontinues Rami. I took the hand of my child and my wife, we shook hands and said goodbye. We said ‘it’s our turn, we will leave in peace and in a dignified manner’. It was bombing all night.”
“It was truly hell. There is no description to say, other than hell. I have lived through several wars, but this is truly unheard of. The night was red . We only saw red and we only heard bombings.”
Rami, resident of Gazaat franceinfo
“We were cut off from the world. We didn’t know who died, who was alive, where it hit, where it bombed? It was really ‘Gaza-strophic’. It’s not not catastrophic, it’s Gaza, it’s a catastrophe. It was really hell”supports Rami.
The Israeli army claims to have killed 55 senior Hamas officials and many other Islamist fighters. She specifies having targeted 450 targets in the last 24 hours. Benyamin Netanyahu affirmed yesterday, the Prime Minister has decided to expand the ground offensive. Northern Gaza has become, according to an army spokesperson, a battlefield that civilians must evacuate as quickly as possible.
In this context, the families of the Israeli hostages are demonstrating loudly against this strengthening of military actions, they who fear for their loved ones. Thousands of demonstrators demanded last night in Tel Aviv the opening of negotiations as quickly as possible. The mobilization is global. It now affects the Israeli diaspora. Hamas proposed a prisoner exchange of more than 200 hostages, for more than 5,000 Palestinian detainees. For the moment, the Jewish state refuses.