When Najah Nabhan learned that her home was about to be bombed by Israel, she knew she had to get out quickly. What she didn't know was how she would get her four children with special needs out of the building in time.
With the help of neighbors, her children, who are unable to walk on their own, were carried to safety. But the airstrike flattened the three-story building, leaving 42 members of Nabhan’s extended family homeless and leaving her children without the wheelchairs, crutches and medical equipment they need to move about.
Nabhan’s home was destroyed by the Israeli strike only hours before a cease-fire took effect late Saturday. At least 11 other residential buildings were destroyed by Israeli aircraft in the five days of fighting. It was the latest in a long line of armed battles between the military and rocket-firing Palestinian militant groups over the past 15 years.
“The Islamic Jihad terror organizations deliberately operates and embeds its military assets in densely populated civilian areas,” the army said.“I was at home, just finished having lunch and was making tea,” she said. “I did not believe it’s our house that is being targeted.”In a video circulated on social media, a relative is seen pleading with the military not to carry out the strike.
Jalal Nabhan, 30, angrily dismissed the Israeli allegations. “Can people like me fire a rocket?” he said, pointing toward his legs and at his disabled sisters. “No one from us can fire a rocket toward Israel.” Eighteen militants, including six senior Islamic Jihad members, were killed, according to Palestinian officials, while two people were killed in Israel from Palestinian rocket fire. Islamic Jihad fired nearly 1,500 rockets toward Israel, according to the army.
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