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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Rafqa Touma and Mostafa Rachwani

For the Palestinians who fled to Australia, the home they deeply miss no longer exists

A young woman looks directly at the camera; the image is half tinted red
Asmaa Elkhaldi in her apartment in Sydney: ‘My body has this kind of trauma – I feel there is going to be a bombardment any time.’ Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

Asmaa Elkhaldi was waking up early to pray. It was a Saturday. Light spilled through the windows of her apartment in Gaza’s north.

Then came the sounds of rockets and everything was on fire. Elkhaldi and her husband fled, taking only a laptop and key documents.

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