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A mother holds her injured child after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City
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Catherine Philp
The Times
Gazans searched for survivors under rubble as airstrikes continue

In the darkness she could not find her children, no longer where she had tucked them in for the night. As stones and rubble hit her, all she could hear were distant voices. Then suddenly her world ignited, bursting into flames.

On the first night of the Israel-Gaza war, the home of Fatima Mohammad, 31, and her four children was hit by strikes in the south of the strip in the city of Khan Yunis.

“I found things falling on me,” she said. “It became dark. I heard people’s voices from afar. They were like a dream or an imagination, and I could not see my children or my relatives. My children had been asleep so I was searching for them under the rubble, then