For many Palestinian Americans, there's a sense of helplessness and hopelessness as they struggle to hear from loved ones who face death in besieged Gaza — and now expulsion.
Israel has issued an ultimatum to nearly 1.1 million residents to evacuate or face land, air and naval invasion. / Photo: AFP
And now, Israel has issued an ultimatum to nearly 1.1 million residents to evacuate or face land, air and naval invasion.For many Palestinian Americans, there's a sense of helplessness and hopelessness as they struggle to hear from loved ones in Gaza. Amid a fuel and water shortage, no electricity, and now a forced evacuation in the north, administering and sending aid to civilians in Gaza is near impossible.
Mohammad AbuLughod, who lives in a suburb of Milwaukee, received fragmented updates from a cell phone his family in Gaza kept charged via a solar panel.An elder in the family died from an air strike. They tried to seek shelter in a United Nations school, before deciding to stay home. Schools were damaged by air strikes. Children died. Buildings have been reduced to rubble. They don’t know if the neighbors are alive. They are all gathered now, three generations, in one house.
But after experiencing a medical emergency, she delivered her baby in Gaza in August, and has remained there since. With the Gaza, a sliver of land only 40 kilometres long with 2.3 million people, essentially dark and the Israeli blockade making delivering humanitarian aid even more challenging, those who have family in Gaza are left watching from afar, feeling powerless as their families struggle to find safety.
Several years ago, during more peaceful times, Nahed Elrayes and his father tried for days to enter Gaza from Tel Aviv to catch his terminally ill grandmother’s final moments.
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