This family can leave Gaza within a week. They count every minute

After months of waiting and begging for help, a family of the Canadian Parents who adhered to Gaza was said to be besieged and bombed next week.

“We hope that we will stay safe this week … I consider every minute now,” said Karim Abushbak, 21, said. I spoke for the first time Current About the plight of his family last month.

Abu Shabak and his family in Gaza were when Israel began its military offensive, following the Hamas -led attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. The family was displaced several times due to air strikes and land attacks, as humanitarian groups warned against growth of the halls caused by the ban on Israel.

As permanent residents abroad, each of them needs a PR card or a permanent travel document (PRTD) on a return trip to Canada. His older sister was approved to travel to Canada in late spring, within a few weeks of serving. But the rest of the family has been forgetting since applying for PRTDS in May.

this week Israel warned the Palestinians to leave Gaza CityAnd the air strikes also escalated before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called A imminent “maneuver” land. This step caused panic and confusion among the Palestinians, who say there is no safe place for them.

The hopes of the ceasefire negotiating Israel conducted an air strike against Hamas political leaders in Qatar Tuesday, with Netanyahu said it was a revenge on Monday The shooting of the Jerusalem bus station that killed many people.

Abu Shabak and his family left Gaza City last week, and they are now in Deir Al -Bala, a nearby city in the center of Gaza. Talk to Current Galloway died about the reason they finally decided to leave, and whether he hoped to return. Here is part of their conversation.

How close are you and your family to the air strikes around you?

It is very dangerous. Air raids (they) are coming and upcoming. Like a few days at three in the morning, a house was injured only 300 meters from us. But, thank God, the house was empty … but it was very terrifying. We were strangled by dust and waves of explosion, and some small rocks fell on us.

It is very frightening, leaving from one place to another due to air strikes. He was going for 700 days. I can’t take it anymore.

Why did you feel that you need to leave Gaza City?

You cannot live there. Shelling, tanks, shots and shots that approach more and more every day. We couldn’t stay there anymore. It was very dangerous.

Who left with you? Who did you take with you to Deir Al -Bala?

My father, my mother, my little sister, my grandmother, was my grandmother. We had to leave the side of the whole mother of my mother.

How difficult is to reach Deir Al -Bala?

It was very difficult. It took three days … to get an agreement with the bus driver. He got nearly $ 1500 just to take us this small distance between Gaza City and Deir Al -Bala. It is about 15 km. It is very expensive. Thank God we can bear this … but many people cannot. For this reason, many people are still in Gaza City.

It should be really difficult to leave your part of your family there.

(It was) very emotional … We were very afraid … because the bombing is very close to them.

There is now an evacuation order for everyone to leave Gaza City. Where do people go?

I don’t know, this is the problem. Like people do not want to die there. Everyone wants to leave. But there is no place. There is no place.

And only many people do not have money, they cannot do so anymore. So people are simply stuck. There is no place. There is no shelf, no Khan Yunis.

when We talked to you a few weeks agoYou were waiting for the Canadian government to agree to your request to leave the documents. What news have you heard since then?

Yes, our PRTDS reliability has been approved (permanent resident travel documents), thanks to God, last week. If everything works well, we must leave Gaza on Wednesday. After nearly four months of email, communication and try, and reach everyone.

This is not the end because we will leave our ancestors, our family and friends. So it will remain difficult, emotional and physical.

So it is supposed to leave Gaza within a week?

Yes, we hope so. We hope to stay safe this week.

What do you think of this week will be like?

I count every minute now, just to leave. And I say goodbye to everyone I know here. I say goodbye (all) Gaza. Because, as you know, I may not see them again. So I say goodbye to my friends, to my relatives and my family.

So I will say goodbye to my pet. I have a parrot … He lived with us nearly 13 years ago … We called him Zohal, a very emotional loss to leave him. But this is life.

How do you understand that? How difficult is to leave all these things behind? You should be safe. But you leave a lot behind you too.

It will be very difficult for us. But our safety (comes) first.

I can no longer take my little sisters, my mother is crying and there is no food.

So we have to take this difficult option to leave everything and only go to hope, for a better life, a safe life. We pray for everyone who will remain here, and we pray (that) the war will end.

Do you think you will return to Gaza?

I hope that, if … they do not destroy everything, make it everything and analyze all its people, and I hope that.