Musa Al-Madhoun was watching TV at home in the suburbs of Melbourne when he learnt an Israeli missile had destroyed the Al-Madhoun family compound in Beit Lahia, killing 14 people.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Hadeel Al-Madhoun, like so many Palestinian Australians, has hardly slept for three weeks. Her face carries an exhausted hollowness as she scrolls through her phone in a Craigieburn cafe, looking for something that will help explain what is happening in Gaza.
, which operates in Gaza independently of Hamas, confirmed the Beit Lahia homes were owned by Mousa’s cousins, Mohammad and Ahmad. They were killed alongside their wives, children and their grandchildren. In Australia, the escalating humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is still largely, and necessarily, viewed through the prism of Hamas’ killing and abduction of Jews in southern Israel three weeks ago, which has muted criticism of Israel’s reprisals.More than 1400 Israelis were killed and 229 taken captive when Hamas carried out its killings, prompting the Israeli government’s vow to eradicate the terror group from the Gaza Strip.
The details of deaths in Gaza are also difficult to independently verify, with increasingly few journalists reporting from the territory and Palestinian and Israeli authorities fiercely contesting basic information about the conflict.Omar Dawwas, a 37-year-old engineer and father of three children living in Melbourne, tells the story of his cousin, Munir.
Nadia says she first saw news of the missile attack on a Facebook post from a family member living in Sweden. She immediately told her distraught father. “It is soul-shattering,” Nadia says. “Every day we wake up and when we see the news, it is like someone steps on your heart. I don’t even know what words I could use to describe this period. I think we are all just desperate and sad and exhausted. And scared of what’s to come.”
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