This is an entry from: Israel-Palestine war: First week ends with over 2,500 Palestinians, 1,400 Israelis killed
'The first time I felt freedom'
8 October 2023 19:23 BST
A Palestinian Journalist from the Gaza Strip recounts what it was like crossing into Israel after Erez crossing fell:
Once Omar had crossed into Israel, the lands of historic Palestine, he was overwhelmed with emotion.
“I felt joy and started crying. People began to cry and prostrate because they had entered the land that they were displaced from in 1948. We were in a state of amazement as we walked around, free, in our lands, outside the prison that is Gaza. We felt that we were in control of our lands.”
The scenes in front of him were “bewildering”. Particularly, he said, seeing Israeli soldiers submissive to Palestinian fighters.
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