Mustafa al-Farra, 46, is the manager of al-Iskan Bank in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. At the beginning of December, he heard rumors about possible break-ins in the area and he went to go check on the bank.
While there had been no robberies, he did notice something else: Eastern Khan Younis was a ghost town.
On 3 December, the Israeli military had ordered an evacuation of that area, home to over 350,000 people.
Now, a week after the evacuation order, the Israeli military was relentlessly bombing Khan Younis, including the al-Farra family’s neighbors.
When the family next door to the al-Farra home was displaced from their home by Israeli attacks, Mustafa suspected that his family might be the only ones remaining on their street.
What he did not realize then was that his family was quite possibly the only one remaining in the entire Sheikh Nasser neighborhood. ….more
