Two Texans — a Jewish man, a Muslim woman — want more support from the federal government to bring their loved ones home. Their families are stuck in a war zone, along with hundreds of other Americans.
When Chen Dori-Roberts watched the TikTok video, his first thought was that it looked like a Hollywood movie filmed in a far-away land. The video showed several women sitting in a low vehicle, surrounded by armed militants.
The video, which appeared to be posted on social media by Hamas militants, broadcast some of the atrocities committed as part of a violent terrorist attack that split open a decades-old conflict between Israel and the Palestinian territories. A group of Americans, 32 members of the Nuestra Señora De Guadalupe church in Cactus, about 60 miles north of Amarillo, returned to Texas last week after becoming stranded during a pilgrimage to Israel, according to U.S. Rep.
Mahaleris did not respond to subsequent questions about Texans stuck in Gaza.The governor’s office did not answer a question about how many Texans are trapped in Gaza. Asher sent messages to family about how terrified she was, hiding in the safe room with her mother and daughters, Dori-Roberts learned later. But four hours after the warning sirens had jolted Asher and her family awake, all communication stopped.
The layers of Dori-Roberts’ grief has been intensified by the online debate surrounding the fraught, decades-old conflict. The complexity of the conflict, he said, is being reduced to sweeping opinions without sufficient nuance and understanding. Two months prior to the attack, Abushaaban’s mother and sister traveled to Gaza to help care for her sick grandfather. But with Gaza engulfed in violence, “Where were they going to flee?” the 22-year-old graduate student asked from Sugar Land, where she lives with her parents and four siblings. “What would safety look like for them?”
One week later, Abushaaban had just hung up with her mother when she spoke with The Texas Tribune. Her mother and sister are staying with about 70 others who fled south in two small apartments near the border with Egypt.
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