Palestinian civilians forced out of Jabalia recall terror by Israeli army

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 are calling 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.

On Monday, Krayem was in the area of the Yemen al-Saeed hospital, when a quadcopter appeared and began telling everyone to head to the southern Gaza Strip.

"We left around 2pm and there were around 18 children with me," he recalled. "On our way, we tried to cross from Yemen hospital, but a quadcopter attacked us with a direct bomb.

"A young man saw the bomb being dropped and started shouting, 'They dropped a bomb!' so we fled, and then they dropped another one about 10 metres away from us. Four of us were wounded, one around 50 years old shot in the back, and a child about 12 years old hit with shrapnel in his chest.

"Throughout the journey, the quadcopters were firing at us, and shrapnel was everywhere."

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