A 15-year-old girl emerges from the rubble after an Israeli bombing of Gaza that killed her family

With tears in your eyes, Mohammed al Sabbagh he screams into his cell phone begging his niece “stay strong” as he languished under the rubble in Link.

The call came at the beginning of his three-day ordeal Hala Hazem Hamada15-year-old who was finally rescued on Tuesday after a deadly Israeli attack that left six of her relatives dead, including her parents.

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Israeli soldiers arrived on Saturday at the residential complex where Hala’s family, from northern Israel, had taken refuge. Linkon the outskirts of the southern city of Jan Yunis.

The Israeli army indicated that it had invaded “terrorist infrastructure”in the area and who arrested the alleged “terrorists”.

Hala told AFP that soldiers asked residents over a loudspeaker to leave their homes, but before she and her family could do so, “The house started to collapse on top of us.”, destroyed by an excavator.

The Israeli military did not initially respond to a request for comment on Wednesday’s events.

“The shooters shot everyone in the family except my sister and me” he added.

“My sister Basant told me, ‘I’m scared, save me. I can not move. I have debris on my feet and my father is on my legI can not move’”.

Then Basant fell and Hala was left alone, waiting for hours before being rescued. Basant, 19, was one of the six killed.

“Stay safe”

The war in Gaza began with the attack by the Islamic movement Hamas of October 7thwhich left around 1,160 dead in Israelmainly civilians, according to an AFP report based on Israeli figures.

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The Israeli response killed at least 30,717 people, most of them women and children, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza.

An AFP journalist recorded when Mohammed al Sabbagh He gave his niece words of encouragement over the phone.

“Stay safe and strong. If there is something around you, eat it to stay strong until we reach it.“, he said.

“I swear to God, we don’t know how to get to you (but) we tried to get to you. Don’t worry, we’ll get there”.

But Hala’s response was disheartening.

“My father is covered in blood. I was breathing but not anymore“, he said.

On Wednesday, Hala told AFP about the rescue of a hospital bed in the city of Rafa.

“They started removing the rubble and cutting the steel bars until they knocked me down. When they took me out, they put me on a stretcher,” he recalled.

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Although he was not seriously injured, he was trying to recover physically after so long without food or water, while also dealing with the trauma and loss he suffered.

“I survived, but I want to see my family one last time”, he expressed.

“I saw my sister and my father, but they were not removed. They are still under the rubble. I want to see them at least to say goodbye”.

Source: Elcomercio

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