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Published 12 Jan, 2024 02:04pm

‘It has felt like 100 years’: Israeli bombardment of Gaza nears hundred days

Bombed-out neighbourhoods, mass graves dug in the sand, spreading hunger and disease; as the bloodiest ever Gaza conflict nears 100 days, besieged Palestinians have endured ever new horrors, TRT World reports.

More than three months of relentless Israeli bombardment since the October 7 Hamas attack have taken a gruelling toll on Gaza’s 2.3 million people, most of whom have had to flee their homes.

“It has felt like 100 years,” said Abdul Aziz Saadat, who is among the flood of displaced Palestinians whose number the UN puts at 1.9 million, and who now lives in the densely crowded southern Gaza city of Rafah.

“Some are living in schools, some on the streets, on the floors, others are sleeping on benches,” Saadat said in the city where many families now shelter in makeshift tents against the winter cold.

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