And they shot me.”From a dark room in Gaza’s Al Quds hospital, Farah Abuolba speaks matter of factly into the camera.
Israel’s siege of Gaza has been the unexpected coda to her first trip to see extended family in the enclave.
I feel like I’m dead.”His daughter celebrated her 17th birthday from her hospital bed in Al Quds, in Gaza City.
Farah Abuolba was among the patients evacuated, her father said, and was on her way to southern Gaza. CNN has been unable to reach her.
Abuolba, who has lived in the US since 2007, said he thought the United States should do more to protect American citizens in Gaza like his daughter.
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