GazaHerald – Gaza resident Ahmed Dremly says he has lived through many terrifying nights, but nothing compares to the shockwaves of Israel’s explosive-laden robots now being unleashed across Gaza City.
“These blasts are the most frightening sound I’ve ever known,” he said. “It feels as though the world itself is cracking open.”
The Israeli military has increasingly deployed remotely operated armored vehicles stuffed with explosives, sending them deep into Gaza neighborhoods before detonating them. For survivors like Dremly, the experience is as disorienting as it is life-threatening.
“You first feel the vibration under your feet, then a rush of air as if it’s been sucked from the room. A second later, the explosion slams into you, a shove so powerful it leaves you stunned. Even kilometers away, your bones shake.”
Dremly recalls how the sound alone leaves him reeling. “It’s so loud you can’t think, can’t move. You just freeze. For a moment, you wonder if you’re still alive.”
Night Turned to Fire
In recent days, he says, the detonations have not come one at a time. “Sometimes there are two, sometimes three in a row. The pain in your head lasts for hours. You feel something break inside you.”
The blasts often strike in the dead of night, amplifying fear and exhaustion. Dremly described standing in the street past midnight when fire suddenly lit up the horizon. “The sky glowed red like a volcanic eruption. I dropped to the ground and covered my head. I knew it was another robot.”
Just days earlier, he had witnessed a similar scene before dawn. “At 5:30 in the morning, I saw fire rise outside my window. I barely had time to fall to the floor before the explosion came, then another, and another after that.”
For him and countless others, the pattern has become cruelly predictable: robots at 3am, airstrikes at 6am. “We never sleep,” he said. “We wait, for the blasts, for the bombs, for death.”
Living Under Relentless Fear
Dremly says he tries to prepare himself when he senses a blast approaching. He opens his mouth to ease the pressure or turns up the volume of whatever noise he can find to blunt the sound. Still, nothing makes the fear easier.
“When one of these things explodes, everything stops. Eating, walking, even breathing, you freeze. The house trembles, and for a moment, you believe your life is over. And then you realize you’ve survived, only to wait for the next.”
His story, echoing across Gaza, reveals the relentless impact of Israel’s war on civilians: sleepless nights, collapsing homes, and children waking to fire in the sky.
“This is what genocide feels like,” Ahmed Dremly said. “You live every moment as if it might be your last.”
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