I'm Raja Abdrahim, and I'm a reporter in the Jerusalem Bureau, and I've been covering

the Warren Gaza for the past three weeks.

On Friday, I was reporting out a story about, basically, it was a sentiment that I was

trying to hear a lot from people that death felt inevitable.

There is now more than 8,000 deaths in Gaza, more than a third of them children, and

we're hearing, basically, entire families are being killed in one strike.

I spoke to a woman in Gaza, and her name is Ulfatil Claret, and she told me that 70

members of her family had been killed, and uncles, cousins, you know, she'd almost

lost count of them.

And what she was telling me, and what I've been hearing a lot, is that these huge death

tolls, and when everybody around you, when everybody you love is being killed, it just

makes people feel that their turn is next.

The smell of death actually hangs in the air, because there's so many bodies, more than

1,000 that are under the rubble, because they don't have the equipment, or they don't

have the ability to get them out.

I also spoke with a poet in an essayist, Musab Abu Taha.

And he was telling me about how when you're sitting in your home or wherever you are, and

you hear the approach of a rocket, the sound feels like it's coming for you, like it feels

like it's intended for you.

And I asked him some more questions, but I suddenly noticed that the messages weren't being

delivered, and I wasn't hearing back, and it wasn't until a little later that we realized

that all phone and internet in Gaza were down.

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