It’s hard for Shouq Alnajjar to hold her anger in check when she talks about the the family she left behind in Gaza.
“They’re living in hell,” she said. “It’s so dangerous there.”
Alnajjar, a Palestinian-Canadian, was living in Gaza City with her Palestinian husband when Israel declared war on Hamas following Hamas’s brutal Oct. 7 attack on Israeli civilians.
After weeks of waiting and anxious phone calls to Global Affairs Canada, Alnajjar was able to get herself, her husband and her mother on the approved list to leave Gaza through the Rafah Gate border crossing.
Alnajjar and her mother fled Gaza on Nov. 12; they’re
