From the sky, Gaza seemed to be the ruins of an ancient civilization, which was revealed after centuries of darkness. Concrete blocks and broken walls, neighborhoods covered by drilling, and roads that end without a destination. Entire cities, not because of an earthquake or flood, but as a result of an Israeli military campaign that destroyed everything.
A rare trip over a closed area
In a rare precedent, the British newspaper “The Guardian” was accompanied by a Jordanian military plane during a aid process over Gaza. Since October 7, foreign journalists have been prevented from entering the Strip, making this trip a rare opportunity to monitor the situation from the air.
From above the rubble: the absence of life and the existence of death
Almost 600 meters, the effects of the bombing appeared on the neighborhoods of Gaza: crushed buildings, shells engraved with shells, and housing areas on the ground. Only a close lens, a small group of people was monitored in ruin, as if they were the only life remaining in this scene.
Aid is falling from the sky
An hour and a half after the flight, the plane approached the Nuseirat camp, and 3 tons of aid slide on umbrellas. Despite the symbolic importance of these supplies, their size is not sufficient, according to relief organizations, which confirm that hunger is spreading quickly, and that weather projections are not equivalent to what can be transferred by land.
Painful human losses
The plane passed over the monastery of Al -Balah, where the influential girl, Yakin Hammad (11 years old), was killed while watering the flowers. Then he passed near Khan Yunis, where the house of the doctor Alaa Al -Najjar was destroyed, and her husband and nine of her children were martyred. These stories represent an aspect of the human catastrophe experienced by civilians.
Gaza: A small land tape for a huge tragedy
From the air, Gaza seemed smaller than being a battlefield with this bloody. Despite its small area, more than 60,000 people were martyred in Israeli raids, and thousands of others are still under the rubble.
Rafah … the end of destruction
When the plane approaches the southern horizon, a soldier refers to Rafah, the destroyed city where hundreds were martyred in search of food. A few kilometers away, a Palestinian ambulance procession was bombed in March, in which 15 paramedics were killed.
Question stuck: What is left to destroy?
Upon landing at the King Abdullah II base, a question remained among the journalists: When will we see Gaza again? Is nothing left to destroy after all this ruin?
