‘Without any warning, the rockets hit’: the families fleeing Gaza

When it was time to flee, Soad Al Halbi told her children told they could each carry one object. “Take only one thing that is so precious to you,” she said as they left their home in Remal, a relatively upmarket neighbourhood in Gaza City. “We can’t take everything with us, for sure.”

Like many of the 2.3 million people who call the coastal enclave home, Al Halbi , 29, was on the move on Monday with her two sons, but had little idea where they would go next. As she sat outside her brother’s home, also now under threat from Israel’s aerial assault, she conceded that she might end up at a refugee camp. “I am so confused. What should I do? What should