Days of terror in Gaza’s ‘Block 76’

In Al-Fukhari, my town in southern Gaza, we had known this moment would come since April, when the Israeli army began systematically clearing and leveling the land between Khan Younis and Rafah to create their so-called “Morag Axis.” On May 19, the order arrived. With a single stroke of the keyboard, Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee stripped our hometown of its name, reducing a vibrant agricultural community of 7,000 people into a number on a military…