‘Like the horrors of judgment day’: Palestinians on Israel’s hostage rescue

People were shopping in Nuseirat market when the first airstrikes hit. Then hundreds began running

• Outrage over massacre' in Gaza as Israel rescued four hostages

The market in Nuseirat was busy on Saturday morning. Among the crowds were Asia El-Nemer, looking for a pharmacy that still had stock of her sister's medication, and Ansam Haroun, hoping to find new clothes to lift her daughters' spirits on the forthcoming Eid al-Adha holiday.

This part of central Gaza had emptied at the start of the year when Israeli troops first moved through, destroying Haroun's house in an airstrike, but filled up again from May as more than a million people fled north to escape another operation in Rafah.