As Israel turns the screws on the strip’s population, Aziz Hamdi Al-Masry writes from Gaza about how armed factions tread a fine line to avoid an outright assault.
I write from Gaza City in the besieged Gaza Strip, where I was born and have lived most of my life, and which is once again being bombarded by Israeli forces.
On Tuesday 9 May, myself and other residents of the strip awoke terrified, in mid-sleep. 40 Israeli warplanes had launched a military assault. The attack killed 12, including women and children; among them, the doctor Jamal Abu Khaswan, his son and his wife.
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