She said they finally left after hearing the voice of the army calling for those inside to leave immediately.
“We left the house, walked in the area to reach the checkpoint. In every area there were people on the ground. The area smelled of gunpowder from the bombing. Some streets smelled of people’s corpses.”
Others evacuated included Rawya, 45, who has five children, who found her and her family trapped in the the Al-Fakhoora area of the camp.
“We endured hunger, siege and all kinds of punishment in order to stay in the camp,” she said. “I thought it was a temporary military operation and would end, but then it started to get worse. We had little food and water.
“We could hear the sound of bullets from every direction. When we moved around the house, we crawled on our feet. If we wanted to go to the bathroom or the kitchen, we could hear the screams of people who were injured.”
She said they left their home on Wednesday, after soldiers approached with loudspeakers urging them to evacuate.
“We left our homes with simple things,” she added. “They did not allow us to take anything with us. I was very afraid, would we survive them or not?”
She claimed the military arrested “all the men and young men” including her husband and two sons Omar, 24, and Salim, 20.