Displaced in northern Gaza recall 'torturous journey' to the south amid Israeli beatings, shootings

For three weeks, Muhammed Krayem and his family could barely find anything to eat as they endured a suffocating siege in northern Gaza, where the Israeli army continues what residents call an "ethnic cleansing" of the area.

When one of their neighbours attempted to reach a school in search of canned food, he was shot directly in the leg by the Israeli army and left to bleed for over two hours while soldiers prevented anyone from approaching him.

Krayem, 38, recounts to Middle East Eye a harrowing journey of multiple forced displacements and relentless attacks along the way, which left him and all his family members wounded before they were forced out of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.

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