Terrified families fled their homes in Gaza yesterday – as aid agencies warned that it was being reduced to a ‘hellhole’.
Women carried children in their arms as they fled on foot, fear and desperation etched on their faces and their belongings piled high on trucks and donkey carts.
Families ignored official pleas from Hamas for them to stay in their homes and instead began an extraordinary flight into the unknown.
Many said they had no idea where they would go, only that they were desperate to leave before neighbouring Israel escalated its military retaliation for last Saturday’s terror attacks.
Civilians have already endured a week of punishing airstrikes that have seen entire neighbourhoods obliterated and killed 1,900 people.





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