‘Bizarre and terrifying’: Israeli quadcopters harass and attack Gaza City residents

While sleeping in her home in Gaza City, MF was jolted awake at dawn by an unusual sight: an Israeli armed quadcopter hovering in her room.

Panicked, the 26-year-old Palestinian shut her eyes and forced herself back to sleep.

The next morning, she got up and went to work, wondering whether what she had seen was just a bad dream - a product of the ongoing attacks that had already triggered a psychological breakdown.

But when she returned home, MF, who asked to be identified only by her initials, overheard her father saying he had seen a quadcopter leaving their home earlier that morning.

It was then she realised that what she had witnessed was, in fact, real.

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