Well, first of all, how are you doing?

I am okay, as okay as it can be.

So, where are you right now? I am in our apartment in Egypt and Cairo.

So you're no longer in Gaza, you made it out? Yes, I made it out. Made of April.

What was that like? What was it like leaving Gaza?

Oh, uh, uh, uh answer, a question to answer actually.

Back in February, we shared an episode where I talked with Henna El Beyumi about her life in Gaza.

She shared what it was like growing up there, the financial struggles she faced, how she worked

really hard to build a better future for herself, and how so much of that crumbled last fall

when Israel began its ongoing assault on Gaza after the attack from Hamas.

Hanna's life forever changed. She was forced to evacuate her home. She fled with her husband and her cat, trying to find shelter where they could.

Like most Palestinians in Gaza, she's lost family members and friends from Israel's bombardment.

According to the United Nations, more than 37,000 Palestinians have been killed since last October.

Meanwhile, Israel's military operation has led to a devastating humanitarian crisis.

Mass displacement, extreme shortages of food, medicine, and fuel,

hospitals, schools, entire neighborhoods have been destroyed by more than eight months of

bombardment. Experts say it'll take decades to rebuild Gaza.

When I last talked with Hennem, she was in Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip.

She was living in a crowded house with other

displaced families. She considered herself lucky that she still had a job working for a humanitarian

organization, but each day she was finding it harder to stay hopeful.

She felt depressed and she was sick from the contaminated water and from eating canned food every day.

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