I woke up that day to the grim feeling in my stomach having heard airstrikes from outside my bedroom window. I got scared and my mother tried to reassure me that they are resistance rockets firing into the air but they honestly felt like Israeli strikes to me. Mohammed and my mum were feeling stressed as they have just found out that there has been an operation that Hamas had committed in Israel. I overheard them and I have felt even more stressed about it than I was before from the airstrikes.

In an attempt to reassure my neighbors I looked Out of the window of my neighbor’s home I witnessed the Israeli airstrike hitting a police station next to us. The scene was not new to me as I have seen Israeli airstrikes before in most wars in  North of Gaza when I was living there as a child.

That day we decided to go to the building complex across from us. So, my mum told me to pack my emergency bag and get ready to leave. It was horrifying as the Israelis were hitting and targeting universities as well. The bombing was unbelievably intense and continuous. But it carried on with the voices of drones being so loud here there and everywhere.