Abood Okal and Wafaa Abuzayda were visiting family with their 1-year-old son, Yousef, when Hamas launched a surprise attack in Israel.
Okal says resources are limited, and everything his family does now needs to be strategic, from the amount of water they drink to risking going out to find food, to using the fuel they need to get to the border crossing with Egypt, the only land path out of Gaza that doesn't go into Israel. He says they are in survival mode as the fighting reaches closer to them.Sign up for NECN newsletters.
"Glass shattered the walls of the house cracked. Doors popped out of frame. It was so close by that we thought this was supposed to be a safe zone but that’s not the case." "We feel abandoned. We feel this is not fair, we feel like the U.S. with all its mighty influence can actually get us home, yet we are not seeing that translate on the ground," he said."We feel like if we were US citizens, Americans on the other side of the border in Israel a lot more attention would have been given to us."
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