“My immediate concern is the safety of my family, my siblings, all of them, but eight of them in the Jabaliya camp,” award-winning Palestinian novelist Ahmed Masoud told us on Monday’s livestream. Ahmed, who lives in the UK, explained that he spent all day messaging with his family members, trying to help them decide whether or not to leave the northern Gaza Strip.
“Neither option is any good at all: Leaving is not an option, staying is not an option,” he said.
His elderly mother is not in good health, and his sister is heavily pregnant, meaning neither of them are able to walk long distances.
“What we know from people who have left and have fled to the south is that you have to walk for at least 10 [kilometers] in order to find a donkey cart to transport you up to the point where the Israelis have installed checkpoints” on the main north-south avenue through Gaza, he said.
"This is not possible for my mom – it’s practically impossible, she will die walking. And as we know, and the reports have come that there are many, many incidents where they’ve been shooting at people who are fleeing to the south, not just shooting, but also bombing. If that happens, my mom will die. So all options are incredibly, incredibly tough."
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