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It was a strange spectacle: a Palestinian man in Gaza receiving a phone call from the Israeli army to tell him his building was about to be blown up in an air strike.
The man was asking for his building to be hit in a way so that it would collapse backwards into an empty area.
“In a little while the big blow will take place,” the caller said in Arabic, warning the owner of the tower bloc to leave as soon as possible. Inshallah [God willing] it will fall on its back.
“Don’t hit from the front,” the man pleaded as people around him listened attentively.