Posted on 10/23/2023 7:25:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Yousra Abu Sharekh’s days begin in the southern Gaza Strip often after sleepless nights amid blaring ambulance sirens and the clamor of neighbors in the brief pause between relentless Israeli airstrikes.
By daybreak, the 33-year-old mother is on the hunt for bread, lining up for hours at bakeries to buy one bag to feed her two children. Without electricity, disconnected from her relatives and terrified by the sounds of warplanes overhead, she rushes in the afternoon to see her sick mother at a crowded U.N. shelter 20 minutes away.
Only two weeks ago, Abu Sharekh had a thriving life, working enthusiastically at a coveted new job and caring for her family.
“I feel either we were dreaming then or we are in a nightmare now,” she said. “Everyone was making plans, enjoying their lives the best they could. Suddenly we are wandering the streets without fuel to drive our cars, electricity, water or food. Homes are lost, people are being killed.”
It’s a view shared by many among Gaza’s tiny but budding middle class for whom hard-won progress despite Israel’s 16-year blockade and the slow erosion of Gaza’s state institutions was reversed in a matter of days.
“All my furniture, all my memories, windows, doors, everything is broken,” she said.
She didn’t want to leave, either. But her husband persuaded her, telling her at least the children should be spared the horror of airstrikes, and that they should stay together.
“But as we discovered, there are airstrikes everywhere.”
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Her pelvis isn’t broken so she is fine
Hahahaha - you have the best GIFs ... that one is a classic !
Wonder why they never run these same kind of stories on the Israelis who experienced the same exact kind of trauma or worse from muslims.
Good isea.
Same here. Hope she rots away. Palis in Gaza don’t value life of Israeli children, or anyone not a Muslim. I hate what they did to innocents in Israel, and hope all Muslims in Gaza suffer.
A “middle class” mom in Gaza? what or who would that be in the area of employment to provide a “middle class” income. The “non state” of Gaza has a completely on the dole economy, begging from nation states and the UN for “support”. Iran of course provides 90% of Hamas funding, who rule over all of the poverty grift. Wonder how much US funding is grifted through the UNWRA. It’s a living.
She would happily sacrifice her two kids to kill Jews or Christians. I do not feel sorry for her.
Cry me a river terrorist breeding vermin
What? A Muslim was thriving in Gaza? But but but the left tell us how oppressed and downtrodden gazan residents are- so AP- which is it? Was she thriving or oppre4ssed and unable to make ends meet?
At least she’s not naked and busted up in the back of a Hamas pickup truck, and her kids haven’t been wired up and burned alive by her Hammie pals...
Thanks, bro, been wondering where this gif got to, lost it a number of years back 😁😁😁
“The AP is the enemy”
Yes, AP is the enemy of this country.
They had a key choice:
1. Use massive foreign aid to build a successful society patterned on Israel: pluralistic, peaceful, democratic, tolerant, attractive to foreign capital investment.
2. Create a tyrannical, terrorist government with one mission: kill Jews. Waste all the monty on tunnels and armaments.
They chose very poorly. This pestilence deserves to be wiped out.
AP=Absolute Poop
Palestinians in America danced in the streets on 9/11.
Oh man, if she’s a supporter of Hamas, and if she’s Islamic, and she hasn’t renounced either, then she owns the results.
The source of all your water and electricity was Israel. But the government you supported chose to attack Israel.
Your job was at a hospital your own government destroyed while trying to attack Israel.
Tell me again why it is surprising that you are starving with no water and no electricity.
Don’t care. If I was Israel, I would knock down every single building in Gaza.
They voted to have Hamas as their government SO I have NO SYMPATHY for her hard times!,,
Is this from Dresden or Cologne or Tokyo? Oops wrong war
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