It’s been a week since Sami, Palestinian living in Santiago de Compostela for 16 years, has not slept in his bed. “Daily life none. We sleep on the couch, at times, because we want to find out what is happening“, account.

He and his wife spend entire nights in the living room listening to the latest news from the ‘Al Jazeera’ channel. His mother, 75 years old, her brothers and nephews, and Up to 55 members of his family are in the StripUnder the Israeli bombings. Some have lost their homes, but are still alive, she says.

His three children they live with anguish the conflict. One of them has even had to stop going to his master’s classes because he cannot concentrate. They are very sad because they have left behind many beautiful moments with their family, explains Sami. Excited, he says that for them family is fundamental and that everyone misses them very much.

Furthermore, it is increasingly difficult to maintain contact with them. Right now Gaza is without electricity. “It is difficult for us to receive news as a sign of life. that says: we are still alive,” he laments.

They just need a reassuring signal. That sign that Jaldía has also been waiting for for three days. She is Palestinian, an activist and lives in Madrid, but almost all of her family is still in Gaza. He He received his last text message from his sister and nephews on Monday.. They told him that thank God, everyone was fine.

His family, like many other Palestinians, resists in their home, they do not want to leave despite having nothing: “They prefer to stay at home, if a bomb is going to fall it will fall anywhere“he explains. The objective, to survive the bombs. Sami’s family shares a home with 150 other people fleeing the attacks.

Mussa’ab Bashir’s mother, an Israeli affairs analyst and journalist, is also resisting in Gaza. Mussa’ab has recently been able to communicate with her: “He told me that they had finally managed to buy water mineral,” he says.

All of them have already experienced expulsion from their land and do not want to leave. Now they ask that the international community pressure Israel to stop attacks and to the Spanish Government to cut off relations with the Israeli regime.