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DIARY: In Gaza, bombs drop and the conflict again hits home

by Fares Akram
| May 16, 2021 12:03 AM

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — On Friday morning, a military airstrike smashed my family's farm in the northern Gaza Strip into a jagged mass of metal and splintered trees. An Israeli bomb had slammed into the yard, carving a crater into the dirt and leaving rubble in its wake.

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