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By Sebastian Silva
Santiago, May 24 (EFE).- Early on the morning of May 17, Jawad Al Samak, a 28-year-old Palestinian living in Chile, saw on television members of his family being rescued from the ruins of a six-story building in the Gaza Strip that collapsed after it was hit by an Israeli bomb.
“I felt something that I can’t explain to you,” he told EFE.
Jawad arrived in Chile after being shot in the right leg on March 31, 2017, and it was not at random that he came here, given that this South American country has the largest Palestinian community outside the Middle East and with the increase in violence there in recent weeks, thousands of its members have taken to the streets of Santiago to demand that the Chilean government levy sanctions against Israel.