Fedaa Nassar says any time she has heard the phone ring in the last year, she becomes overwhelmed with anxiety. 'I hate phone calls now,' says the 34-year-old lab technician at an Ottawa-area hospital.
Fedaa Nassar says any time she has heard the phone ring in the last year, she becomes overwhelmed with anxiety.It's because she worries the person on the other line will tell her that her dad, mom, brother and two sisters have died in the Gaza Strip."I wake up three to four times during the night to check if they're still alive or not."
Nassar says her relatives in Gaza have been displaced seven times in the last 12 months. The home they spent their lives saving up to buy is gone. "Oct. 7 changed us. I sometimes miss the life I had before Oct. 7 … and I don't think we'll be able to go back," she says. " was an unidentified body in the street, and I recognized my cousin." Sultan says it was up to her to inform relatives in Gaza and Canada about his death.
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