I finally heard from my friend Majdi in Gaza. Our conversation was very brief. Here is a transcript of what he said before we were cut off.
We faced death for more than 2 weeks. The tanks were just few meters from my apartment. Every Palestinian in Gaza says that he didn’t face such a crisis like the last one, even a 90 years old one told me this.
But believe me Hamas is a very big problem for us. I don’t want the word Gaza to be associated with Hamas.
Do you know on one day when the tanks were around us very closely I was afraid that one Hamas fighter could enter our building. Then a massacre could happen
Furtunately, there were no Hamas fighters.I know that what I am telling you is strange, but even the chance of having Hamas fighters gives excuses to them to massacre.
I can tell you that there was not a resistance. The resistance was minimal and if it was more you could expect more victims.
Hamas people now say that at a neighborhood where Israelis occupied at the center of Gaza City there were only 6 fighters.
