Following Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel on 7 October, the Israeli army launched a heavy campaign of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. The air raids have caused widespread damage, displacing more than a million people and killing more than 2,800 civilians, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Afaf al-Najjar, a resident of Gaza City, lived in a district that was bombarded by airstrikes, and, after Israel issued an evacuation order through leaflets dropped from the sky, she left with her family for Khan Younis. Najjar speaks to the Guardian about the impact of the war on her family US-led diplomatic effort fails to ease Palestinians’ plight in Gaza Gaza diary part two: ‘We decide to stay. Then I start crying’ Israel-Hamas war live