“What kind of truce is this?”

'WE'D JUST STARTED TO BREATHE AGAIN... WHEN THE BOMBARDMENT CAME BACK, BRINGING WAR, EXPLOSIONS, DEATH'

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Palestinians try to recover a body from the rubble of a house destroyed in an overnight Israeli strike in Gaza City yesterday.

(AFP)

Their faces contorted with pain, relatives mourned two children killed in overnight Israeli strikes on Gaza, leaning over small bodies on the pavement wrapped in sheets, one stained blood red.

In the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza yesterday, Palestinians combed through piles of broken cement in a house that had been flattened by an air strike, trying to salvage what they could.

Like Judgment Day

“We had dinner and sat down, and then it was as if Judgment Day had come. All these stones were on top of us,” Muneer Mayman told AFP in the morning, pointing to a pile of cinder blocks and concrete under which he had been found. “We lay there for more than two hours while they were removing the rubble from over us.”

Behind him, men and children were at work sifting through debris, hauling off belongings wrapped in blankets for lack of bags or wheelbarrows.