A Gazan man who could escape the war thanks to his Polish citizenship has instead chosen to stay in his damaged home in Khan Younis, framing his decision as part of a historic struggle for Palestinian rights in their homeland, Reuters reports.

Abdul Raouf al-Farra’s name was on a list of people authorised to leave the bombarded Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing to Egypt, but said his emotional bond to Gaza as a place, a people and a cause prevented him from leaving.

“My soul is attached to this homeland. This homeland is where I grew up, where I was born,” he said. “This is my country and they (the Israelis) have no option but to leave our land,” he said.

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Abdul Raouf Al-Farra, a Palestinian man with Polish citizenship, who refuses to leave Gaza even after his neighborhood was targeted with Israeli strikes that damaged his home, displays his passport at his home, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip November 15. — Reuters
Abdul Raouf Al-Farra, a Palestinian man with Polish citizenship, who refuses to leave Gaza even after his neighborhood was targeted with Israeli strikes that damaged his home, displays his passport at his home, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip November 15. — Reuters

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