As she left Gaza through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, 11-year-old Farah Salouha was relieved to be out but sad to leave her father, still living in the tiny, crowded enclave under Israeli bombardment.
Palestinian-American Farah Salouha speaks to a reporter before boarding a bus to Egypt, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at a border crossing in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 3, 2023. REUTERS/Arafat BarbakhGAZA, Nov 4 -
"My Dad told me to be safe. He held me and he kissed my forehead because he is very worried about me," said Salouha, a Palestinian-American Salouha, as she stepped down from a bus that had taken her across the frontier with her mother and siblings. Israel last month ordered all civilians to quit the northern half of Gaza, though it continued to bombard southern areas. In Khan Younis, the main city in southern Gaza, residents searched the rubble for survivors after an air strike on Saturday.
"The start of the war was very hard because I was sick and I couldn't sleep in my room, but then they told me to get out of Gaza and I didn't want to leave Gaza," said Salouha. On Friday, video taken on a road running between northern and southern areas showed seven bodies, including a child, lying apparently dead surrounded by their belongings. Neither Israel nor the Hamas-run authorities in Gaza have commented on the deaths.
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