Many Israeli and Palestinian people in Australia know someone who has either been killed, injured, kidnapped, displaced, or is in hiding. As the conflict escalates, they fear more bad news.
Is this really happening? Has anyone I know been killed? Why aren't they answering their phone? What can I do from Australia to help? Am I safe here?
Israel retaliated by vowing to annihilate Hamas, putting Gaza under siege, and launching the most powerful bombing campaign in the 75-year history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "I put up an Israeli flag on our house to show my support and my kid was saying 'no, don't do that', because my kid is afraid of hate crime."Palestinians in Australia the ABC has spoken to said they were deeply disappointed to hear the anti-Semitic chanting, and wanted people to know those views are not widely shared in their community.
"I fear what's going to happen next – how these people, the collaterals of all of this, are going to deal with Israel's response," Ms Abdo Sultan added.She said she hoped a humanitarian aid corridor would be allowed into the blockaded Gaza strip as soon as possible to bring water, food, medicine, blankets, and shelter to the 2.3 million people trapped there.
The man, who did not want to give his name, said he told his children to hide their head coverings under baseball caps following theHe added that Jewish people he had spoken to during the week at his workplace were so anxious about the war they were not sleeping.
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