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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Nedal Hamdouna

My evacuation from Gaza City: ‘I told my terrified toddler we’re going camping’

“We’re going south to camp in a tent. You can play in the sand. It’s just a trip and then we can go home.”

This is what I was forced to tell my three-year-old daughter last week, as I prepared to evacuate her, my wife, and our newborn baby girl out of Gaza City, while Israeli forces advanced.

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