Life For A Millennial In Gaza

SARAH AL RAMLAWI, RESIDENT OF GAZA: Well, the past few weeks were really like hell in Gaza. It’s at least to be called — what’s happening in Gaza is at least to be called a genocide. The Israeli forces is actually attacking — like, civilians and their home. They attack — they’re destroying the infrastructure. They are destroying, like, the businesses of people. They are destroying schools, literally everything. So, no one is able to — actually to predict when it’s going to be dead. And, like, it’s really hard to describe how we feel here. But it’s just like — like someone is, like, shooting — bring a gun into your head, but you’re not knowing when you’re actually is going to — he will actually pull the trigger. This is how Palestinian actually right now feel, especially with, like, the number of — like, the huge number of innocent people, children, women who have been killed. Right now, like, it’s more than 230 people who were killed by the Israeli, like, bombing. And, like, more than 65 — 65 of them are children. And I don’t know why they call us as collateral damage, but it is actually very intentional. And, like, two days ago, there was bombing in my neighborhood. And, actually, there was like a massacre. They bombed like two buildings and four floors on the head of their people. And there are like 42 people who have been killed. Half of them were children. The other half were women. And they had nothing to do with Hamas. Hamas doesn’t actually use us as a human shield or anything. We are just people sitting in their home, not knowing where to go, because we are been under the blockade for years, now for more than 15 years. We are not able to go out. We’re not — no one is allowed to get — and we don’t have shelters, like the Israeli do. And we don’t have any defense. Like, when Hamas actually throw rockets to the Israeli side, they call it a terrorist attack, while — but not self- defense. So, we need to give a context of what’s happening here. It’s really undescribable. It is at least to be called genocide.

GOLODRYGA: I am not sure if you heard my conversation with Lieutenant Colonel Conricus there in the IDF just before this. But he showed video of what appeared to be a Hamas rocket launcher situated right next to a school in a civilian area. And this is something that they describe happens regularly and that they are targeting Hamas and Hamas is infiltrating itself among civilians. What is your counter to that? And are you sure that that’s not the case?

AL RAMLAWI: It’s absolutely not the case.