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Published 13 May, 2024 07:38pm

Palestinians desperate to flee Rafah as Israelis bear down

Mai Anseir and her extended family of 25 — who already had to move three times in the face of Israeli bombardment — say they have run out of options as Israeli troops get closer to the last sanctuary on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, Reuters reports.

“We are here, we do not know how to leave. Our financial capabilities do not allow us to get transportation so that we can leave,” said the mother of five at an abandoned UN school where the family had taken shelter.

“And we cannot stay in [this] place because it is ‘zero’. The place is miserable. There are no services, no water, no electricity. There is no life in the place that we were at.”

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