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Ahmed Abufares holds his phone during a video call with his father, Fares, who is currently in Gaza, in his home in Clifton, N.J., on Oct. 12, 2023. As bombs fall and phone batteries run low, Palestinian American families caught in the Israel-Hamas war wonder whether the U.S. government will help them escape.Duaa Abufares, 24, a psychology student from Clifton, New Jersey, has been anxiously awaiting word from her father, Fares, each day this week.
On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces said civilians in the northern part of Gaza should evacuate to the south “for their own safety and protection.” On Tuesday and Wednesday, there were nonstop airstrikes and bombs around the building, causing the windows in their apartment to shatter and their front door to break open because of the pressure of the bombs, she said. She said she had reached out multiple times to U.S. authorities and the U.S. Embassy in Israel but that she had not received a clear answer about what was being done to help them.
Palestinian Americans in the United States were already worried and have been frustrated by statements in recent days from government officials, universities and employers that expressed solidarity and sympathy for Israeli loss of life but did not mention Palestinian civilian casualties. Her parents tried to cross to Egypt on Tuesday, she said, but they were unable to leave when the border crossing was shut down. They are now moving from apartment to apartment as evacuation orders are given.
Haneen Okal and her three children were at the border Tuesday when it was bombed. The neighborhood where they were staying was also bombed. Now they have moved into her sister’s apartment, Abdulla Okal said.
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