Obliterated families
5 August 2015
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Ayyad Family, Al Sheja'iyia
At approximately 6:00 am on Sunday, 20 July 2014 Israeli tanks fired artillery shells around the house of the Nasser Helmi Ayyad family, whichis located on Al Mansoura Street in Al Sheja'iyia neighbourhood, east Gaza City. Some relatives of Nasser were in his house since the day before as there was also bombing in their area.
They were hiding behind the stairs, but because of the heavy bombings they attempted to flee the area and were attacked while fleeing down a street, just dozens of meters from Nasser's house which was also damaged.
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