The Palestinians devastated and fear after Israel resumed blows

He had started as a normal night in Gaza, with people already having their meal before the dawn in the Holy Month Ramadan. After 50 nights of cessation of fire, life in the territory has settled in a relative rhythm of peace.

But then the shooting rat began on the shooting and explosions. Then followed the sound of the people who scream.

Esam Abu Ode and his family were sleeping when military planes came again.

“Around 2:00 (Midnight GMT), we were suddenly awakened by the sounds of heavy firing,” he told the BBC GAZA radio service.

“My daughter woke me up, warning me of the bombs. We quickly sheltered the walls, fearing that the ruins could fall on us.”

Israel’s planes were torn from the north to sweep through the strip, hitting the city of Gaza in the center and then heading south in Rafa and Khan Eunnis.

The blitz killed over 400 people on Monday night, mainly women and children, local health authorities, ruled by Hamas, said. They did not identify the number of killed fighters – Israel says it was aimed at Hamas’s commanders.

More than 600 more were injured. Once again, hospitals on the territory were flooded, doctors at night shift fought with a sudden influx of injured, many children.

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The BBC met with the family of an early man Ahmad Mont al-Jumla, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. He was at the beach refugee camp in Al-Ahrar when he was hit.

“We were shocked that this area was directed,” his sister said, noting that the whole family could not find it in the beginning.

“From night to morning we could not understand if he was injured or not because the scene was terrifying and no one had no news – the whole building had collapsed on everyone in this area.”

At 05:00 he was removed from under the ruins. He was alive – but he was taken to a hospital with fractures and brain injury.

His family also endured his own ordeal when their neighborhood was struck. “We suddenly discovered that the house collapsed on us, the ruins fall from every direction,” his sister said.

“We tried to get out, we wanted to escape, but there was nothing. It was night and suddenly there was bombing in the house.”

“The war resolved sharply, without warning,” says another Gaza M. resident.

He was because of his food or before the dawn, when his street was hit by shooting and firing.

“The sense of terror passed through the area,” he says. “Everyone was filled with fear – uncertain where to go or if we could be displaced again.”

“Fear has gripped people again, especially since we are in Ramadan’s month,” he said.

Israel poured a gas all morning, with the strikes relieved when the sun rises.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the attacks, his cabinet reported after Hamas failed to release more hostages or accept US proposals to extend the termination of fire, which took place since late January.

As the first phase of the cessation of the fire ended earlier this month, there were concerns about the resumption of fighting again – especially after the negotiations stopped two days ago.

The White House on Monday night was informed by Israel before resuming its attacks.

But the Gaza residents were blinded. The return of military planes broke two months of fragile peace.

“I was shocked that the war started again, but at the same time we expect the Israelis,” Hale Jabalia Al Ballad told BBC Arabic.

“We were not surprised; we are expecting it at all times,” he says of the collapse of the truce. “But the shock is a huge-200 martyrs (killed people) at times. As a citizen I am exhausted. We had enough years and a half of that! It is enough,” he said.

Prior to the end of the fire in late January, the war continued for 15 months with Israeli air strikes and bombing, killing over 46,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

Umm Mohammed Abou Aisha, living in Deir Al Balah to the east, had been able to survive with his mother during this period.

But her mother was killed on Tuesday morning. Her last memory is to enter the kitchen, saying she wants to make her morning meals.

“My mother woke up as usual to prepare her eating on Suhoor, to prepare for a quick but not ready to fight,” she told the Reuters News Agency.

The impact struck their neighbor’s home, blowing the surrounding area, she said.

She questioned the state of the alleged peace. “Life is becoming more difficult, there is no truce or cessation of fire.”

“There are sniper (located), continuous shocks in front of citizens. There is none of what was agreed (in the termination of fire).

Another resident, Mohammed Bdic, said his daughter was killed – their street was bombed while the whole family is sleeping.

“(We) Suddenly we woke up at the strike, they hit our neighbors … We found this girl under the ruins, we pulled her mother and our father under the ruins.”

He then found his daughter’s body there, he told AFP news agency.

Southeast of Gaza, Rames Alamarin, 25, describes the transfer of children to hospital.

“They again unleashed the fire of Gaza’s hell,” he told AFP, adding that “bodies and limbs are on the ground, and the wounded cannot find a doctor to treat them.”

Gaza hospital authorities have told the BBC that many patients who have been transferred have suffered severe head injuries and bleeding, burns, fractures.

“The attacks were so sudden that the number of medical staff was insufficient for the scale of these big strokes,” says Dr. Mohammed Breaks, CEO of Gaza’s Strip Hospitals.

He notes that there are currently only seven hospitals that can work through the territory after 15 months of war. And despite the truce, some medical supplies were released in Gaza.

Another doctor described the situation as catastrophic. There is a severe deficiency of medical and surgical equipment, intensive beds, medicines.

“Even the medical staff has been completely exhausted after more than a year and a half of continuous emergency work,” said Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmia.

“We have seen many wounded people lose their lives right in front of us, simply because there are no medical supplies or some possible way to offer them care.”

He called Israel’s actions in the dawn “slaughter against sleeping civilians in the Gaza Strip”.

The most admission so far has been in Nasser Hospital in Han Eunis to the south. People were in a hurry with the injured in the hospital.

Bodies covered with white sheets were also taken to the hospital’s morgue. The families were gathering for burials on the street.

Esam, his father, awakened by his little daughter this morning, says he asks the intermediation of the sides to end their suffering.

“We don’t want to resume the war. We are looking for peace so that we can live and sleep without fear,” he told the BBC.