Since the beginning of the war in Gaza,

Yusef Hamas has been a master of good timing and good luck.

We did a story about him a few months ago,

and we remind you for a minute who he is,

and how capably he got his family from place to place.

Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th.

Youssef led his home on October 8th because he was afraid that Jabalia were from

was going to be bombed.

And the next day, October 9th,

Jabalia was bombed.

As the war moved, he moved a second time down south

to a city called Hanunus.

Then Israel dropped leaflets from the sky telling everybody

to evacuate Han Yunus immediately, gets safety further south in Rafa.

He used to pack up the car that day, his wife Manal, his kids, his mom, and made his third move.

And this is around the time that he started having conversations with one of our producers

here, Hannah Joffi Walt.

He told Hanna that he knew his sisters,

Nain Yunus, needed also to go to Rafa.

And he kept wheedling, arguing, pleading, making promises,

wearing them down, and they still did not move until an airstrike hit the building next to them.

Terrifying, right?

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