RICHARD SPENCER | DISPATCH
Palestinians across the world despair as entire families die
Middle-class diaspora waits for news, powerless to help, Richard Spencer writes
A father with a wounded child in his arms appeals for help from a devastated cattle shed at Nuseirat refugee camp to the south of Gaza City
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The Times
In previous rounds of conflict, relatives of the people trapped in Gaza would phone to find out who had died in the latest air strikes — a sister, a cousin or a nephew. Now, whenever a phone call is possible, they try to learn of the families that have died.
In the rush to take shelter, fleeing from the areas first in Israel’s line of fire, extended families are gathering in the darkness from a fear of isolation. When the bomb strikes, they die together, by the ten, twenty, thirty or more.
One family, the al-Astals, have lost 88 members.
Israeli airstrikes continued for a 23rd consecutive day
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“I have worked before to collate the names of the dead on Excel spreadsheets,” Izzeldin Bukhari, 38, said. “But I have never seen anything
