Rage and clarity as Palestinians detail devastation in northern Gaza

Mai Annan, a Palestinian woman from northern Gaza, is talking about what is happening to her home. 

“The screams of the women after the young men were executed, and they are pleading, ‘No, please no,’ this sound will never leave me,” she says, describing the actions of Israel’s military. 

“Those cries haunt me every night. I can’t sleep. I can’t forget the massacre we lived through.” 

Behind her, all we can see are piles of rubble. We are in a room in London, capital of a country that helps support and arm Israel, which has been waging war on Gaza since the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October. 

Annan, who leads the Reviving Gaza mutual aid project in the north, is on a video screen, the ruins of northern Gaza behind her.

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