Early on Tuesday morning, brothers Mahmoud and Abdelrahman Kouta, each wearing a slim backpack, waited in line to board an idling white tour bus in Rafah just a few minutes’ drive from Gaza’s border with Egypt.
Abdelrahman climbed the steps and disappeared into the bus first, with Mahmoud squeezing through the crowd to follow close behind. After 160 days living under threat of bombing, starvation, dehydration and illness, the brothers from London., Ont., were getting out of Gaza.
“What we have been living the past six months is something unexplainable … living more than a horror movie, more than what you’d see in a Hunger
