Bombs had scarcely started falling on the Gaza Strip last month when Omar Mansour's family realized they had a crucial question to resolve: would it be better to face death together or apart?
One day after Hamas fighters stormed into Israel — slaughtering at least 1,400 people, seizing roughly 240 hostages and triggering a war that rages on to this day — Mansour's parents, brothers and sisters gathered in one of their homes to discuss the dilemma.
"So far the discussion is still the same but we are really running out of options," Mansour, a permanent resident in Canada since 2014, said in a telephone interview. "It's extremely unsafe. So even this option of distributing ourselves into different groups to go to different locations is invalid at this moment. But there's no other options."
The group made its way to the vacant home of another relative who was out of the territory when war broke out. "They finally got some water, but they haven't showered for the whole time," he said. "They can't flush toilets." “Today there is north Gaza and south Gaza,” Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told reporters, calling it a “significant stage” in Israel’s effort to stamp out Hamas. The group governs Gaza and is classified as a terrorist organization by many countries, including Canada.
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