From my hometown in Gaza, the unthinkable news: 36 of my family members are dead | Ghada Ageel

The Khan Yunis refugee camp was supposed to be in the safe zone. But nowhere is safe - the very existence of Palestinians is under attack

My family home was supposed to be in the safe zone in southern Gaza. But last week the bombs came anyway, without warning. They fell at around 10 o'clock on Thursday morning in four or five big explosions. An entire residential quarter of the Khan Yunis refugee camp, where I was born and raised, was reduced to rubble. Everyone there experienced it as an earthquake; a human-made earthquake. The whole camp was shaking.

I've counted 49 dead - among them are 36 members of my family. Another dozen or more are still missing under the rubble of eight homes, I'm told, and more than 100 are injured.

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