'Genocide stopped only in media': Gaza endures daily bombings a month into truce

A month into the ceasefire in Gaza, almost nothing has changed for Manar Jendiya.

Originally from Gaza City, the Palestinian mother has remained displaced in Deir al-Balah since the truce took effect on 11 October, as most of her neighbourhood, Shujaiya, remains under Israeli control.

Two weeks into the agreement, Israeli forces heavily bombed the area where she was staying, forcing her to seek refuge elsewhere.

One of the attacks killed her sister.

“Her husband was killed earlier in the war, so she had been caring for her children alone,” Jendiya told Middle East Eye.

“When the attacks in Gaza City escalated and evacuation orders were issued repeatedly, she didn’t want to risk losing her children as well, so she sought refuge in a makeshift tent in central Gaza,” she added.

“She never imagined she would be killed here too, leaving her children without a mother or father.”

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