Nearly 500,000 Israelis have been internally displaced since the deadly Hamas attacks on October 7, according to an Israeli army spokesman. TO TSF He found one of these families in Jerusalem.
Abigail wears baggy clothing on a thin body. On her head she wears a scarf with many bows, as Orthodox Jewish women do, to reserve her beauty for her husband.
Hear young Abigail’s story here.
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Despite being young, just 24 years old, Abigail already has two children and a six-month-old baby. She lives, or lived, in one of the places attacked on October 7. In a curious story, the young woman replaced the English words explosion, sirens or gunshots with sounds.
Abigail says she was alone with the baby when she heard the sirens. She grabbed the child and went to the window, where she heard the gunshots.
“I went to the window and heard a knock, a knock,” he remembers.
The young woman points out that some very young boys entered her house and told her to lie down on the floor, and they ended up fleeing when a guard arrived. In the middle, sirens and explosions.
It is not clear how he ended up escaping, but it is clear that he is now at his grandmother’s house in Jerusalem. She couldn’t bring anything. She only brought her family – her husband and her children – and she survived, unlike hundreds of Israelites with whom she shared that morning.
Since the deadly attacks by the Palestinian Islamist movement that killed 1,400 people in Israel, the Army has bombed the Gaza Strip and prepared a ground offensive, causing large population displacements in this small enclave that is under land, air and sea control. Israeli for 15 years.
According to the United Nations, over the course of a week, one million people fled the northern Gaza Strip to the south.
Reprisal attacks carried out since October 9 have killed at least 2,750 people, mostly Palestinian civilians, including hundreds of children, according to local Palestinian authorities.
Source: TSF