Monday, January 12, 2009

'Soon we'll have nowhere left to run. Nowhere in Gaza is safe'

Our correspondent and pregnant wife forced to flee Israeli onslaught

By Fares Akram in Gaza city
Monday, 12 January 2009
The Independent

"We've left our home. Like 60,000 other Gazans, we've taken our belongings and fled. Once again, we've become displaced people. Soon, there will be nowhere to run to, since nowhere in Gaza is safe. In the early hours of Saturday, the bombing got louder and closer to our home, and the rattle of machine-gun fire became more intense. The tanks were not far off....."

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