With all of his family members safe, what he mourned most was a trio of majestic 25-year-old olive trees and the collection of steeplechase trophies won by him and two of his sons.
One of the trees landed on the roof of his brother's house next door. As for the trophies, they were the first thing he and his sons dug out of the wreckage. They proudly haul out the battered and dented awards for a visitor.
"All this from one rocket," Mamluke said. "A man spends his life saving money to build a house, and an hour later he's in the street."
Others have had their homes spared, if not their nerves.
Ibrahim Mahmoud, an appliance store owner in the Bureij refugee camp, said he received three calls in less than an hour. The first, answered by his teenage son, accused Mahmoud of working for Hamas and warned of an impending strike.
"I returned home to find my house in chaos. My son in tears, the women screaming," he said. Then came a second call from the same female Israeli voice asking for a different person. When Mahmoud identified himself, she said, "My mistake" in Hebrew and hung up.
As Mahmoud herded his panicked family into the street, he received a third call, this time asking, "Why are you so worried and scared? You're not the one targeted."
Nerves frayed, Mahmoud evacuated his 20-member family from their multistory building. He and his sons spent a sleepless night sitting across the street waiting for their home to explode. The next day, Mahmoud moved his family back home. He sat in his store, surrounded by washing machines and blenders, fielding worried phone calls from friends and relatives.
"I'm not afraid. I don't have anything to be afraid of. I haven't done anything," he said. "But with the Jews, there's no guarantee. They could do anything."
Other, less personal forms of warnings have also been used. Thousands of fliers have been dropped onto Gaza towns. One was signed by the "Leadership of the Israeli Defense Forces" and asked: "Will the residents of Gaza pay the high price for the behavior of those who arrogantly boast about solving the Palestinian issue?"
Last week, many Khan Yunis residents answered the phone and heard a recorded warning message in Arabic. The Israeli army also has broken in on the frequency of the Hamas radio station to broadcast warnings.
In all cases the message was similar: Don't harbor militant fighters or store weapons for them. Those who do will place themselves in harm's way.
"It's intense psychological pressure," said Abu Ahmed, a spokesman for Islamic Jihad. "They're trying to force the civilians to drive the resistance away from the civilian population centers."
