KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) The night a blast struck his family's home in the Gaza Strip, Ahmed al-Naouq was more than 2,000 miles away but he still jolted awake, consumed with inexplicable panic. He reached for his cellphone to find that a friend had written and then deleted a message. Al-Naouq called him from London. The words that spilled from the other end of the line landed like world-shattering blows: Airstrike. Everyone killed. Four nights later, Ammar al-Butta was startled from
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) The night a blast struck his family's home in the Gaza Strip, Ahmed al-Naouq was more than 2,000 miles away but he still jolted awake, consumed with inexplicable panic. He reached for his cellphone to find that a friend had written and then deleted a message. Al-Naouq called him from London. The words that spilled from the other end of the line landed like world-shattering blows: Airstrike. Everyone killed. Four nights later, Ammar al-Butta was startled from
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Entire generations of Palestinian families in the besieged Gaza Strip have been killed in airstrikes in the ongoing Hamas-Israel war. They include infants to elderly grandparents, killed in attacks the Israeli army says aim to root out the militant group from the densely populated coastal territory. The unprecedented violence has raised troubling questions about Israeli tactics. Ahmed al-Naouq says none of his 21 family members, including 13 children, killed in an Israeli strike on his family s home belonged to Hamas. He is just one among many who say the same thing, and ask why their relatives were killed.