Last night was awful. Awful.

There were so many explosions coming from the air, from tanks and from everywhere. They were using everything they had against us.

I’m surprised that my house has not collapsed. And everything was random fire.

I don’t understand why they don’t use bigger bombs. They could finish the whole thing off in one go. Why do they use these bombs and draw it out so much over so many days? They should drop one bomb and be done with it.

It was so terrible. You cannot imagine.

Everything was shaking all night. All night long.

They killed so many people in the night. All night long.

I would not wish this on my worst enemies.

And theyare denying everything, everything. I see Mark Regev on Al-Jazeera and he is denying everything, not just the phosphorus. Everything. He even tries to deny that Israel’s armed forces are in the Gaza Strip.

 

They are showing that they are strong. Ehud Barak is showing that he is strong.

I swear that tonight I prayed for the Israelis that someone will save them from their leadership.

No one is safe.

They’re not doing a thing to Hamas. Hamas is only getting stronger. After this thing, Hamas will have 50,000 suicide bombers. Hamas is getting stronger and only people are getting hurt.

I’m telling you – they should finish it now – one bomb and that’s it.

I see children running, fleeing in the streets, these children are one, two, four years old. They are running in the streets. What have they done?

They’re making them suicidal.

It was a truly terrible night. Truly. No more than 200 m. from my house.

They’re failing. Israel is failing. Israel has cursed leadership. I’m telling you – attack the Hamas leadership and finish it off, but don’t kill children.

What are they doing? What are they doing?

They are not protecting the Israeli nation, they are only harming it.

A child whose entire family has been killed will go to commit suicide in a few years. Why not? He has nothing to care about in life. He has nothing to live for.

 

 

 

 

They are using a particular kind of explosive that creates a lot of smoke, very close to our home. It looks like a rain of fire. It is very difficult to breathe when they fire it. My daughter is asthmatic, and it is making her breathing very difficult. She can’t use her inhalation device because there is no electricity. I don’t know what to do: should I close the windows so that it will be easier for her – and all of us – to breathe? But then the windows are likely to break from the impact and injure us.

 

 

 

 

The situation is very hard today. I heard something from a friend that simply gives me no peace – about two families who are fighting over the identity of someone who is lying in the hospital. Since it is impossible to identify the wounded person because his face is very badly hurt, one family claims that he is their nephew and the other family says that he is their cousin. They are fighting about it because they realize that if this is not their relative, that means that their relative is dead.

I can see all of Beit Lahiya from the roof and it’s all going up in flames. There is a very big cloud over the entire northern area. Gaza is packed like a can of sardines, everything is small and crowded. People don’t understand this.

You could die anywhere in Gaza today – at home, in the street. Every place in Gaza is under attack. There is no safe place. This is what Hamas is telling people: why should you die at home? Come out and fight and at least you’ll die while defending Gaza and your home. Who can say no to such a thing?

There is no bread. I called all the bakeries in Gaza and I didn’t find even one where I could buy pitas for my children. In the end I stood in line for half an hour and got cookies. Even that was being rationed – only 1 kilo and no more. I can’t even get pitas for my children.

I’m telling you – I’m willing to come and help in Israel, in Sderot. What they are going through hurts us too but give us a chance. Just give us a chance. Don’t use our children in order to change the political reality. Do you understand that I – someone who has a respectable job and livelihood – burnt my hands while trying to heat water for my children on an open fire! My hands got burnt!

Gaza is one big graveyard.

 

I look at the younger generation. Israel is destroying it. You cannot imagine the fear on the faces of my children. Now it’s OK but when it gets dark I’m so afraid.