Survivors of Israeli bombings: ‘Children are being torn apart under the rubble’

Middle East Eye correspondent Mohammed al-Hajjar is currently in Gaza speaking to survivors in the al-Shati and Jabalia camps following a night of heavy Israeli bombing. 

The camps are almost totally residential and house thousands of Palestnians, but have now been turned to rubble. 

“We woke up to suddenly find bombs raining down on us, we went outside to find body parts littering the streets. There was no warning before the airstrikes hit. People were killed in their homes, we couldn’t even call anyone," one resident told MEE.

“Civil defence crews have not been able to reach us, there’s not water or electricity here, we are future deaths. No one around the world is getting involved to help Gaza. We are speaking to you knowing we will be next, there’s no help,” he added. 

“I can’t add anything else, what can I say? They attacked civilians, were all just kids and women sleeping at home.”

Israel bombed the al-Shati camp at 6am, flattening 10 residential towers, according to eyewitnesses.

People have been unable to pull out bodies from under the rubble due to the magnitude of the disaster.

Gaza has been left without basic resources, including food, water and electricity since Monday.

‘This is our final message to the world’

“All internet and connection will be cut out for us in six hours, this is our final message to the world,” Ahmed told MEE, calling on the international community to help civilians in Gaza.

Another resident said that they have been searching for bodies amidst the rubble for hours. 

Shouting in frustration, a devastated resident asked where the Arab community was.

“What is happening to us is wrong, Netanyahu and the American’s are bullying us. Children are being torn apart under the rubble," he said. "What have they done to deserve this?”

Israel’s most recent overnight and morning bombardment has been one of the most deadly since the start of the war.