© Mohammed AsadPalestinians walk through rubble after Israeli forces struck the al-Yazji building in the Gaza Strip overnight Monday, November 13, 2018.
Israeli forces leveled six buildings overnight Monday in the most serious escalation of hostilities since the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas. By Tuesday afternoon, Israel and Palestinian factions had signed to an Egyptian brokered ceasefire, yet worry remains across the Strip.
Hours before the agreement was reached, Suhair Habboush, 39, was panic-stricken, fleeing her apartment in the middle of the night after a relative received a warning call from the Israeli military at 11:30 p.m.
"I fell asleep early Monday night and about 20 minutes into my sleep everything turned into massive chaos mixed with my brother-in-law loudly screaming," Suhair said who shares a flat with her six children, "I rushed to my children's bedrooms to check if they were alive."
"My brother-in-law received a warning call from an Israeli officer telling him to evacuate the six -story building within 10 minutes," she said,
"The scene was similar to the 2014 war. We are scared that those black and bloody days might repeat themselves again. Nobody wants to lose their beloved."
Comment: To really tackle the issues involved here there has to be a multi-prong approach. There needs to be a stress management program that does more than give students crayons and puppies. They need to teach the students to deal with stressors of all kinds effectively in order to make the students more resilient, and that will make them less likely to panic in any emergency situation. The schools and the media need to stop feeding the school shooter social contagion by no longer naming the shooters. The list goes on, but the point is that having students take these courses aren't really helping the students and won't prevent future shootings.