Julia Abu Zeiter, whose tale is being followed by News, was moved with her family from a tent in the southern city of Rafah to a purportedly safer zone to the north, further away from the border they planned to cross.
Her mother, Maha, told News that they were going through travel processes to leave Gaza. When it was time for us to pass through the Rafah crossing, the Israelis occupied it and told us they wanted to invade Rafah.”
She continued, I was caught between two fires and didn’t know where to go. Do I try to travel to treat my daughter or flee to another location? “I didn’t know where to go.”