“We no longer recognize our own city. The Israeli army has redrawn the map of Gaza,” the reporter of Guardian in Gaza opened their paper. No longer recognizing his own city This little place is so distorted that the previous map of its roads and landmarks is now useless. On the streets, crater-like bomb craters were scattered. Debris lay scattered on both sides of the road, or sometimes blocked the roads. The famous buildings here no longer exist. 11 days of shelling has displaced the city. The aerial attacks caused the ground to shake violently, to the point that at some bomb sites, buildings seemed to be pulled to the ground rather than being hit from above. The Al-Jalaa Tower in Gaza City, where Al Jazeera and the Associated Press were located, was leveled by an Israeli missile. Photo: REX. On one street, the curving walls of a kindergarten lean down at an angle until they disappear completely. Nearly a week after the attack, large concrete mounds still line Al-Wehda Road. A 7-story building is now just a giant pile of rubble on the corner of the street. In a house, all that remains is a stairway among the dust. Across the street are the ruins of another building. “It’s a very old medical clinic, possibly the oldest in Gaza,” said Abdel-Latif al-Hajj, director general of international cooperation at the health ministry in Gaza. “. Al-Hajj said the building is Gaza’s main Covid-19 testing center. “Anyone can imagine what would happen if we stopped testing,” he said. In addition, war means that thousands of displaced people are now crowded together, which can speed up disease transmission. The 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas has left more than 250 people dead, the vast majority of them Palestinians. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes against militia targets in Gaza, while Hamas has fired more than 4,000 rockets towards Israel. “The Al-Wehda Carnage” According to the Guardian , Al-Wehda Street, is the main street in the center of Gaza City. At one end of Al-Wehda, Gaza’s largest medical facility, Shifa Hospital, is home to many survivors. Amjed Murtaja, 40 years old, lying on a hospital bed, legs covered with scratches. He said he was in his apartment on the fourth floor of the al-Wehda building when the bomb hit the balcony. “The building shook. My only thought at that time was to get to my wife and children,” he said. Just as Murtaja ran to another room and was just in time to hug his family, a second bomb fell, causing the entire structure to collapse. “We fell together,” he said. People in Beit Hanoun, Gaza return to their homes after the truce. Photo: Anadolu Agency. After landing, Murtaja’s hand was sandwiched between patches of cotton wool. They were stuck for about four hours, before neighbors and rescuers dug down and pulled them out. His wife Suza broke her back. In the same building, several members of the Al-Auf family, including one of Gaza’s most famous doctors, once the head of the anti-Covid-19 task of Shifa hospital, also died. Mr Murtaja said that while he was trapped, he could hear the screams of neighbors who were also trapped in the rubble like himself. Murtaja’s wife, Suza, is in the same hospital, but in a different women’s ward. Lying in an IV hospital bed, she said that after the sudden tremor, she was disoriented and at first thought she had been knocked over by a cupboard. One hand was stuck, the other hand held the phone and turned on the light, only to find that the building had collapsed. During the four hours she was trapped, she tried to coax her 2-year-old to sleep, but debris kept falling and waking him up. Israel said Thursday’s attack on Al-Wehda was aimed at destroying a vast network of tunnels it called the “Metro”, because it believed Hamas was hiding its military resources. The military said it had no intention of knocking down the building. So far, there has not been any clear evidence that Hamas is hiding what is in this tunnel system. The shelling on Al-Wehda Street was the deadliest attack in Gaza in the 11-day Israeli-Hamas conflict. Photo: AP. Nearly a week after the attack, a sign was erected in front of the building, bearing the names of those who died and the words “Al-Wehda massacre”. It was considered one of the deadliest attacks in Gaza in the 11-day Israeli-Hamas conflict, claiming the lives of 42 people. According to the United Nations, violence in Gaza has destroyed nearly 260 buildings. 53 schools, 6 hospitals and 11 health care centers were damaged. Nearly 80,000 people are displaced in the region, and about 800,000 have little access to tap water. The strip’s two million residents live inside what they call the “world’s largest prison,” with unemployment rates over 50%, health care systems collapsing, water sometimes poisoned and power is cut off continuously. Gaza Strip in ruins as seen from satellite Satellite images show the severity of damage in the Gaza Strip during more than 10 days of intense fighting.

A shelter room in the basement of a building in Tel Aviv. Photo: Van Ung – P/v VNA in Tel Aviv During the conflict that has been going on for the past week, Hamas in the Gaza Strip fires hundreds of shells and rockets into Israel every day in retaliation for the Israeli army’s attack on this force. According to Israel’s Civil Defense Law, enacted in 1951 and subsequently amended several times, all homes, residential areas, offices and industrial buildings must have additional shelters built. In addition, Israel has also launched many propaganda campaigns, instructing people on how to stay safe whenever the sirens sound. In recent clashes with Hamas, the bunkers along with the Iron Dome (Iron Dome) interceptor missile system have helped Israel very effectively limit the number of casualties from Palestinian shells. The idea of ​​shelter was born after the First Gulf War, to help people quickly reach a safe place from bombs, bullets, missiles or chemical weapons. Later, with the development of the construction industry, Israelis tend to build shelter rooms right in their apartments. Whenever there is a missile alarm, people just need to quickly enter the shelter, close the door and wait until the alarm is over for 10 minutes to be able to go out safely. Currently in Israel there are some basic types of shelter works as follows: Shelter: All homes, residential areas and industrial buildings in Israel are required to have shelters built. The law also allows several houses or apartment buildings to share a bunker. In the event of war, the garages can be requisitioned as shelters or makeshift hospitals. The bunker must always remain closed so that anyone can quickly and easily access it when the sirens sound. Israeli children in a bunker. Photo: Jerusalem Post Shelter room: This is the most common form of shelter in Israel. Shelters are built right into apartments, floors of buildings or other public areas. The shelter room, built of reinforced concrete, is located near the entrance to the apartments. Usually these rooms are used by residents as storage, but when there is an incident, this place will be required to be cleaned up to be ready for people to enter the shelter at any time. Fortifications: Neighborhoods near the Gaza Strip often build fortifications, which are dome structures over buildings to avoid being penetrated by rockets. Since 2008, the Israeli government has built a solid bus stop with reinforced concrete to avoid being hit by shrapnel. Since 2009, all schools in the South have been fortified with anti-missiles. Migunit: This is a concrete structure shaped like a bell or box, with enough space for a small group of about 10 people to shelter. Migunit can be moved to place in vacant lots or near roads so that people can easily access when there is an alarm. Sewer pipes is a pipe several meters long placed near a house that can provide temporary shelter. At the request of the agency in charge of civil safety, the minimum size of the shelter room is as follows: Covered area 13m2 (3.6m x 3.6m), clear area 9m2 (3m x 3m) . Thickness of outer wall 25cm, thickness of inner wall 20cm, thickness of ceiling 30cm. The room must be built of solid materials, with metal-reinforced doors. Israelis take refuge in a sewer when rockets are fired from Gaza. Photo: Getty Images Normally, the shelter room will be the innermost room of the building, with limited wall area exposed to the outside, no windows or small windows, and the walls are not covered with fragile materials. shot causing injury such as porcelain, brick, mirror, glass… For old apartment buildings, the law stipulates that there must be shelter rooms with reinforced concrete walls at least 12 cm thick or at least under concrete stairs. cardboard with enough supports to keep the building safe enough from bombs and missiles. In the past, when there were no clear regulations, each shelter room was only 5m2 wide and was often used as a laundry room or storage. Later, the law stipulates a minimum area of ​​9m2, but most families still use the shelter room as an extra bedroom or office. In the event of a war, in each shelter people usually keep some items such as canned food, emergency lights, communication equipment, fire extinguishers, copies of important documents, phone chargers, and batteries. batteries, bottled water. There are also some personal items such as money, clothes, candles, medicine, first aid kit and important phone numbers.