Gaza resident Hossam Wail Abu Shammallah told Al Jazeera that he has lost 120 members of his family since the war began. Despite having lived through four wars with Israel already, he said “combined, they’re all nothing” compared to what the besieged strip is going through now.
“The amount of massacres, ethnic cleansing and displacing people multiple times. If we look at the statistics, we are already past the number of the Nakba,” he said, referring to the mass displacement of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, known as the “catastrophe.”
“We are at the point that it’s quite impossible to find someone that hasn’t lost anyone, whether from his family, friends, relatives, or someone from work or school.”
