I wonder if she was one of those out dancing in the streets just a few days ago ...
Posted on 10/12/2023 11:09:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Haneen Okal, a Palestinian-American who lives in New Jersey, reunited in recent months with family in the Gaza Strip for the first time in more than 10 years, she told ABC News.
Now, Okal and her three young children -- two of whom were born and raised in the U.S. -- find themselves caught in the Israel-Hamas war despite pleas to U.S. officials in Israel, Okal said in an interview.
"It's very terrifying because we all want to get out of here," Okal said. "Unfortunately, the U.S. embassy is not helping. We feel abandoned."
Okal's husband, Abdulla, is at home in New Jersey pleading for help getting his family back to the U.S. safely.
On Tuesday, Okal and her children, the youngest of whom is two-months old, drove to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt as bombs fell "everywhere," she said.
After Israel closed its lone border crossing with Gaza, the passage at Rafah stood as the last route out of the territory.
However, bombs dropped near the Rafah border crossing had forced the passage closed and left the area on the Gaza side of the border in disarray, Okal said.
"People were running and going back to the center of Gaza," she said. "It was a very bad experience."
The crisis faced by Okal and her family follows months of unsuccessful outreach to U.S. officials that had delayed a return home, she said.
During her visit in Gaza, Okal had given birth to her third child, leaving her in need of a U.S. passport for the newborn.
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Stay there.
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Shouldn’t be in Gaza in the first place.
Looks like you’re Palestinian first and American last so guess what
They are muzzie. Did they vote for the hamas?
The U.S. stopped fending for its own people a long time ago, about the time Brandon took office. Didn’t she get the memo?
Heritage Matters.
Maybe she should explain to them that it is the bitter fruit of endless hatred inculcated against Jews, and acting on that hatred has consequences.
My guess--if they do survive and make it back to the US, Okal will pick up where she left off, while benefitting from an overly tolerant/sympathetic US.
Need to check videos to see if they were dancing in the streets Saturday afternoon.
She went over there to have a baby so I think you’re correct.
Please, you are mooselimb first, stay there. It is where you belong. We didn’t want your kind here in the first place, we don’t want you back.
Ask Tlaib.
*Looks like you’re Palestinian first and American last so guess what*
Jooz are leftists first Jooz second. What’s the difference? Perhaps we should arm both sides.
I wonder if she was one of those out dancing in the streets just a few days ago ...
Jooz? Why?
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During her visit in Gaza, Okal had given birth to her third child, leaving her in need of a U.S. passport for the newborn.
It's been two months ... she certainly wasn't in any hurry before this to get the passport.
I’ll bet Haneen and Abdulla are glad they voted for Biden. (Legally or not) If Trump got into office he was going to start a war, CNN told me so. LOL!!!
WHO tf flies to Gaza to have a baby? I wouldn’t, not even if it was for my own mother’s funeral.
“Sorry, can’t make it, too pregnant.”
Anything past the hyphen deserves to be disregarded.
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