When Rana Nassrawi got to a hotel room in Cairo, nearly 24 hours after fleeing from Gaza with her two young children, she finally allowed herself to cry. The Mississauga, Ont.
When Rana Nassrawi got to a hotel room in Cairo, nearly 24 hours after fleeing from Gaza with her two young children, she finally allowed herself to cry.
The federal government said 75 people connected to Canada were able to leave Gaza through the southern Rafah crossing with Egypt — the only way out for foreign nationals — on Tuesday as the war entered its second month. Nassrawi said she had travelled to Gaza for the first time in two decades to visit her parents – she left Gaza to live in the UAE when she was 17 and moved with her husband to Canada in 2009. She said she arrived in Gaza four days before the war began on Oct. 7.
"They were born and lived in Canada and they don't know what bombings, what injured people mean, what is destroying the houses," she said, adding she will tell them when they're older that they were trapped in a war. On Monday afternoon, her husband told her Global Affairs had said she and her children were on a list of Canadians and other foreigners who would be allowed to leave Gaza on Tuesday.
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