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First person: ‘I woke to the suffocating smell of blood and dust, my ears ringing with the…

After 57 days of fragile calm and a cautious return to homes, families are again being forced to flee

A boy sits amid rubble as Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday. Photo: Hatem Khaled/Reuters

A boy sits amid rubble as Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday. Photo: Hatem Khaled/Reuters

Farida Algoul

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The sound of airstrikes shook the ground beneath me in Jabalya in northern Gaza early on Tuesday.

I woke to the suffocating scent of blood and dust, my ears ringing with the sound of collapsing buildings and distant screams. Panic overtook me as I tried to understand what was happening.

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