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Hello from Gaza.

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I am Mohamed-i-Sharif. I live north Georgia, Strip in Palestine. I stay with my children.

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Mohamed sent us this video in early November from his home in Jabbaleea Camp, where the Israeli army has carried out some of its deadliest bombings. He told us he had been distracting his children with coloring and drawing activities to help them cope. But the picture outside was a harsh reality.

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That's how we wake up every morning. This is sound, everyday, palestarian. He told.

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Us he decided to stay back with nine of his family members because the road to the south was too dangerous and people were being killed along the way. Mohammed lives dangerously close to the Indonesian hospital, which, according to Human Rights Watch, has been struck multiple times by Israeli forces during October. The Israelis claim the structure sits above a network of Hamas tunnels and a launch pad for the rocket attacks. The infrastructure around Mohammed's home had soon turned to rubble. And as the days progressed, he told us he was afraid to go outside to search for food and water. And when he did, all he saw was suffering.

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See in the sky.

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Meanwhile, reports of the sharp increase in the death toll terrified him..

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No food.

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Israel maintains that it warns residents to evacuate the areas it targets. But whenever the electricity and internet were cut off, Mohammed feared being isolated from the outside world.

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I sent big message for the world, we need to freedom. We need to free them. We need to free them. We need to save the place for me and for my children and for my family and for all the children in Kazakhstan. We need peace.

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But one night, he eventually dared to head outside and sent us this video on the 11th of November.

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That.

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Was the last time we heard from Mohammed.