Posted on 10/23/2023 7:25:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Yousra Abu Sharekh’s days begin in the southern Gaza Strip often after sleepless nights amid blaring ambulance sirens and the clamor of neighbors in the brief pause between relentless Israeli airstrikes.
By daybreak, the 33-year-old mother is on the hunt for bread, lining up for hours at bakeries to buy one bag to feed her two children. Without electricity, disconnected from her relatives and terrified by the sounds of warplanes overhead, she rushes in the afternoon to see her sick mother at a crowded U.N. shelter 20 minutes away.
Only two weeks ago, Abu Sharekh had a thriving life, working enthusiastically at a coveted new job and caring for her family.
“I feel either we were dreaming then or we are in a nightmare now,” she said. “Everyone was making plans, enjoying their lives the best they could. Suddenly we are wandering the streets without fuel to drive our cars, electricity, water or food. Homes are lost, people are being killed.”
It’s a view shared by many among Gaza’s tiny but budding middle class for whom hard-won progress despite Israel’s 16-year blockade and the slow erosion of Gaza’s state institutions was reversed in a matter of days.
“All my furniture, all my memories, windows, doors, everything is broken,” she said.
She didn’t want to leave, either. But her husband persuaded her, telling her at least the children should be spared the horror of airstrikes, and that they should stay together.
“But as we discovered, there are airstrikes everywhere.”
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AP=BS read no further.
She chose poorly. My give a damn meter is stuck on zero.
Totally expected that AP would feature an article of a Hamas woman over an Israeli survivor.
I hear music from a miniature violin.
Did the AP write similar puff pieces on Germans, Japanese, and Italians during WWII?
And two foreign azhos working for the Ass Press are worried about her. They didn’t say much about the dead Israelis and their children. These two pixies need to be sent home.
Human interest stories from Nazi Germany circa 1944.
The AP is the enemy.
Tiny violin
I’m sure the “good” Germans in 1944-45 felt the same way.
She voted for Hamas.
Tough.
😭
lol…the media with their “terrorists just want to survive” sob story.
Pravda’s got nothing on our propagandists…
To use a 60s expression, my heart bleeds purple peanut butter.
Instead they kept quiet and even cheered in the streets when Hamas killed any Jews. I have no sympathy.
Has Yousra Abu Sharekh condemned Hamas for turning her world upside down? I didn’t think so.
You’ve got nobody to blame but your own people for everything that has happened to you. Handle it.
So?
They should do with Palestinians what they did with the German civilians, and force them to view, and clean up the murderous rampage their own people performed in the name of Allah.
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