"They kill us like rats and cockroaches"

No.

8864

Date

7 November, 2024

Location

📍 Gaza - Gaza City - Al-Shati Camp

Original Social Media Post

""بقتلوا فينا زي الفئران والصراصير..ولا راحمين حدا" تصفُ هذه السيّدة برعب ما عاشته في مدرسة شحيبر في مدينة #غزة قبل قليل، بعد قصف الاحتلال لها وانتشال الشهداء وهم أشلاء من تحت الأنقاض! أطفال ونساء وعائلات نازحة تضطرُ إلى الركض تحت النّيران هربًا من الموت.."
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Archivist Notes On This Video

Translation of the caption: "They kill us like rats and cockroaches..and they don't have mercy on anyone"

This woman describes with horror what she experienced in the Shuhaibar School in Gaza City a short while ago, after the occupation bombed it and pulled out the martyrs in pieces from under the rubble!

Children, women and displaced families are forced to run under fire to escape death.


Summary translation: The distraught woman is saying that it was all so sudden she only knows that the rubble collapsed and fire broke out burning people. Some people were torn to shreds. There are women and children in the school including a baby next to her who's barely 4 day-old baby being nursed by his young visibly distraught mother. "*They have no mercy on the elderly, the children, the disabled. They have mercy on no one. They kill us as if we're rats and cockroaches. Yet no one is taking any action. None of the Arab countries is helping Palestinians. "*They watch us (being killed) as if we're strangers and have no connection whatsoever. We're flesh and blood (human) like them, we're all Palestinians, all Arabs, all Muslims. I don't know whay no one is doing anything."

Archivist Notes: Shuhaibar school / Shabat family massacre

Around 3:15 pm, an Israeli airstrike targeted the Shuhaibar school (Al Shati Boys Primary School) in Shati camp, west of Gaza City. The school was used as shelter for displaced persons ans is located next to another school and a clinic.

About one hour after the first strike, the IDF threatened a second strike.

Casualty reports minutes after the massacre indicated 12 people were killed and 30 injured. 11 of the dead were from the Shabat family, cousins of journalist Hossam Shabat

Names of the martyrs:

  1. Asmaa Alaa Shabat
  2. Awni Youssef Shabat
  3. Ruqaya Alaa Shabat
  4. Mayar Awni Shabat
  5. Mohamed Alaa Shabat
  6. Sara Awni Shabat
  7. Iyas Awni Shabat
  8. Rana Awni Shabat
  9. Khansa Awni
  10. Ruqaya Awni Shabat
  11. Youssef Shabat
  12. Majd Moataz Adwan

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Photos Hossam Shabat checks on his aunt and killed cousins: Hossam Shabat's cousins: Injuries at Al-Ahli Hospital: Bereaved families:

The details for each video come from social media. None of it has been verified.