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For the 68 orphans saved from Rafah, the road to recovery is likely to be a long one

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Palestinian children receive free food in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Feb. 23. More than a million Palestinians displaced by the war have taken refuge in Rafah governorate, including an estimated 600,000 children. (Fatima Shbair/AP)

TEL AVIV, Israel — It took months of negotiations for the charity group SOS Children's Villages International to get 68 children without parental care out of Rafah, in southern Gaza, to the relative safety of the Israeli-occupied West Bank last week.

Efforts began as soon as November — one month after the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas — to safely remove the children to Bethlehem, where they are now based, according to Angela Rosales, the chief program officer of SOS Children's Villages. The group also relocated 11 employees and their families in the move.

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