Aya Muin Al-Aloul and her mother miraculously escaped certain death, but her father, a psychiatrist, did not survive, as a result of an Israeli raid targeting their home in Al-Wehda Street in Gaza City.

The clock was indicating shortly after 1 at night at dawn yesterday, Sunday, when what Aya describes as an "earthquake," when violent and successive explosions were rocked by Israeli air strikes targeting residential buildings in this street, which is among the longest and most lively and active streets in City.

Despite the passage of many hours, the search for missing people continues (Anadolu Agency)

For what sin did they kill Baba?

Aya (25 years) lives with her mother and father, Doctor Moein (66 years old) in an apartment on the first floor of the 7-storey "Dream Building 3", and she tells Al-Jazeera Net, "I was sitting with my parents in their room as usual since the outbreak of the war, and suddenly there was an explosion." It was violent and terrifying, the apartment collapsed and I started removing the debris from my body, God has given me the strength to survive.

She added, "The place was surrounded by blackness, and the dust emanating from the explosions closed my noses and almost killed me by suffocation .. I feel now that I have died and resurrected."

From her bed in the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Aya completed the details of the tragedy, “I heard Mama calling me from under the rubble, at that moment I did not realize where I am, I tried to remove the rubble and save her, but it was not easy .. I started running while I did not know that I was in the street. Head uncovered and with home clothes. "

“Landmarks have changed, this is not my home, and this is not our street .. She screamed with all strength, help us, help us, and as an ambulance was driving speeding around the place, it blocked its way to seek help, and I did not know that my father was martyred,” Aya said, with tears falling from her eyes.

She extended her hand and grabbed her mother's hand, who was lying on a nearby bed, and asked, "For what sin did they kill Baba? .. God count us, and yes, the agent."

Aya and her mother suffer from bruises and wounds in their bodies, while her father was martyred after a life that Aya described during which he was a "compassionate father, a human doctor and successful, and he deserved this testimony and a good conclusion."

Aya embraced her wounds and pains, and got up to say the last farewell looks at her father, and said, "Thank God that his body was not deformed, his face laughing as if he was sleeping and not dead."

The Unity Street earthquake

Al-Tabib Al-Aloul is one of 42 martyrs, including 16 women and 10 children, who were killed in the "massacre" that Israel committed against the safe civilians in their homes on Al-Wehda Street, and about 50 others were wounded, of varying degrees.

The death toll from the raging war in Gaza rose for the seventh day in a row to 192 martyrs, including 58 children and 34 women, and about 1,235 wounded, and the Ministry of Health says that this toll is expected to rise.

The Israeli air strikes changed the features of the main Al Wahda Street that connects east and west of Gaza City, and it is a residential and commercial street, crowded on both sides of it with multi-layered buildings, and below it are shops and companies of various activities.

The raids completely destroyed 3 residential buildings, and caused massive damage to dozens of buildings, shops and civilian facilities, and the electricity network in the street collapsed, in which the movement of cars became almost impossible due to deep digging caused by rockets, scattered debris, and collapsed electricity poles.

An ambulance driver, while observing searches under the rubble, said that access to the main Shifa Hospital in Gaza has become extremely complicated, due to the massive destruction of Al-Wehda Street and other main streets in the city.

There is no justification for killing

"It was a crazy shelling, like an earthquake hit the area," Aya said.

"Our experience made me sure that all of us in Gaza are exposed to death in every moment and without cause," she added.

"The occupation does not need a justification for killing and destroying .. Everything in Gaza is people, trees and stones targeted and liable to be killed." And Aya adds, "I did not imagine for a moment that I and my family would be among the victims ... the occupation is lying, we are civilians, and it targeted us madly and without warning."

She used the same description of Raba Shabt, and said, "Indeed, we were subjected to a devastating earthquake ... sudden explosions and without introductions shook them throughout the region. We ran into the street unconsciously ... barefoot men and women in home clothes and children screaming."

Ruba is a young journalist who lives with her mother and her four siblings in a residential building adjacent to a building owned by the Abu Al-Auf family on Al-Wehda Street. We went out and all the residents were scrambling to flee. "

Ruba, her family and her neighbors lived hours of terror, spending their night close together in a ground yard below the building, and she says, "When day dawned, we looked at each other and we could hardly believe that we were still alive."

Survivors of the Israeli strikes are looking for a safe place in the Gaza Strip, where no place was spared from the Israeli bombing (Reuters)

Mayday

Long hours since the massacre took place, and the search for missing people under the rubble is still going on, amid severe difficulties facing civil defense teams due to the lack of resources and the tragedy of the crime.

The Assistant Director-General of Civil Defense for Operations and Emergencies, Brigadier Samir Al-Khatib, said in a press conference on the rubble of a destroyed house, that rescue operations are carried out with great difficulty and take a long time due to the size of the crime and the lack of resources.

"Minutes are crucial in saving the lives of those trapped under the rubble, but working in such circumstances and with these dilapidated capabilities hinders rescue efforts," he added.

Al-Khatib issued an urgent distress call to neighboring countries, to provide them with crews and equipment, to help them avoid the repercussions of the escalating aggression on Gaza.