Summary
A young Palestinian resident of Shuja’iya, east of Gaza City, who told +972 and Local Call in ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza that many of his family members were killed in the Dec. 2, 2023 bombing aimed at assassinating Wisam Farhat (lines 290-294).
Details
- He was at a local supermarket that day when he heard five blasts that shattered the glass windows (line 290).
- “I ran to my family’s house, but there were no buildings there anymore,” he said. “The street was filled with screams and smoke. Entire residential blocks turned to mountains of rubble and deep pits.” (line 292).
- His wife and baby daughter survived, protected from the rubble by a closet that fell on top of them, but he found 11 other members of his family, among them his sisters, brothers, and their young children, dead under the rubble (line 294).
- At the article’s close he and his neighbors are still searching for corpses: “Until now, there are bodies under the rubble,” he said. “Fourteen residential buildings were bombed with their residents inside. Some of my relatives and neighbors are still buried.” (lines 388-390).
Related pages
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza, Wisam Farhat, Gaza City, Lavender