At dawn, with explosions all around, Hussam Abuouda’s family piled into their green Fiat, the children crying as they raced along empty roads to Gaza City, as directed, 6 miles south, The Wall Street Journal reports.

It was the first of five moves the Abuoudas would make in less than a month as they followed Israeli instructions to get out of the way of airstrikes its military says are aimed at eliminating Hamas.

A truce to free hostages and allow aid into the enclave stopped the bombing for a week late last month. When it expired early on Friday, Israel urged Palestinians to make way again.

The resumption of bombing will force the Palestinians to again calculate and recalculate an impossible and potentially deadly equation — whether it is safer to stay put, or keep moving in search of a safe place within Gaza, a territory roughly the size of Philadelphia.

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