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"Many times after a bombing, I felt like I was standing over a mass grave... but of people who are alive and stuck there." Al Jazeera Gaza Correspondent Youmna ElSayed recounts her family's harrowing journey south after being forced to flee their home, in this excerpt from our documentary, GAZA. 🧵

Youmna's own family was still in Gaza City at the time. "A call comes from a private number... and he was like, 'We know who you are. Take your family and leave your home, otherwise your lives are in danger.'"

"They said that we have five minutes to leave the building... So we grabbed our children, and we left."

Thousands of other families were trying to flee Gaza City at the same time.