First-person account of surviving Israel’s bombing of al-Mawasi in Gaza

Most people were asleep when Israel’s bombs made a three-storey-deep crater and started a large fire.

I’m Tala Herzallah, 22, from northern Gaza.

I’m currently displaced and staying in al-Mawasi. This is what I saw on September 10, the day of the explosion:

We were all asleep. Then suddenly, everything was turned upside down – the colour of the sky changed.