Under the rubble of collapsed buildings, and in the darkness of rubble and blood, the Palestinians of Gaza write tragedies with details similar to dramatic events that rival imagination in their ugliness.

Mohammed Al-Sabbagh speaks on his phone while crying, imploring his niece, Hala, on the other end of the line, to “stay strong” until she is pulled from under the rubble of her home in the Gaza Strip.

This was the beginning of a suffering that lasted 3 days for the 15-year-old girl, who was finally rescued on Tuesday, but lost 6 members of her family, including her father and mother.

Hala Hazem Hamada, while on her hospital bed, explained to Agence France-Presse on Wednesday how the Israeli army asked last Saturday to evacuate the residence in which they were staying in the Hamad area in the vicinity of Khan Yunis, south of the besieged Palestinian Strip.

The girl adds that before she and her relatives, who were displaced from northern Gaza due to the fighting, could leave, “The building that was destroyed by the bulldozers began collapsing on us. They started taking the rooms, so we went to other rooms and called them (the army members), but no one responded.”

For its part, the Israeli army said in a statement that it carried out an operation against “terrorist infrastructure” in this area, arresting “terrorists.”

Hala says that all her family members were killed except for her sister Basant, who kept calling her and asking her to save her because she was suffocating.

She adds: “But I was unable to move because the rubble was on my feet and the door was on my feet.”

Her sister died, and Hala spent long hours waiting alone to be rescued. Basant, 19, was one of the six members of the Hala family who died.

"We'll get to you" 

The war broke out following an attack launched by Hamas members in southern Israel, which led to the killing of at least about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, according to a census conducted by Agence France-Presse based on official Israeli data.

The Israeli retaliatory attack led to the killing of more than 30,000 people in the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians, women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

While Hala was trapped under the rubble, an Agence France-Presse journalist was able to film her uncle, Muhammad Al-Sabbagh, speaking to her on the phone.

He said to her, “Try to remain well and keep your breath. Stay strong, if there is something completely beside you, so you can persevere until we reach you.”

Hala then gave him terrible news, saying, “My father is all blood.”

When speaking on Wednesday about her rescue, Hala explained that the people who rescued her “began cutting through the stones and iron around me until they took me out. When they took me out, they put me on a stretcher.”

Although she has begun to recover physically, after being deprived of food and water for three days, Hala feels devastated by the loss of her family.

She says, "I left, but I want to see my family for the last time. I only saw my sister and my father, but they didn't see them. They are still under rubble. The least of it is that I will see them for the last time."