Palestinians In Jordan Fear For Family Members In Gaza
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🗓️ 16 October 2023
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Summary
Tens of thousands of Palestinians are struggling to evacuate - as closed borders hamper those efforts. Others refuse to leave the areas Israeli military forces say they will target.
For Jordanian Palestinians who have family in the Gaza Strip their loved ones are just 90 miles away. But that distance can feel painfully close AND impossibly far.
NPR's Ari Shapiro traveled to Amman, Jordan. He spoke with two Jordanian Palestinians who have family in the Gaza Strip about their hopes and fears.
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| 0:30.6 | For more than a million people living in Gaza, the clock is ticking. |
| 0:35.9 | I was one of the luckiest people to get a car and basically move from Gaza to southern Gaza with a car. |
| 0:43.4 | On Friday, Israel's military ordered all residents of Gaza City and Northern Gaza to leave |
| 0:49.6 | for the southern end of the territory ahead of an expected ground invasion. |
| 0:54.1 | Nor Harrazine is a freelance journalist in Gaza. Her parents refuse to leave Gaza City, |
| 1:00.5 | but Harrazine fled south with her husband and children. We sow hundreds of people taking the |
| 1:06.5 | street on their feet and you're talking about tens of kilometers and I saw women crying and |
| 1:14.7 | children crying and people are shocked. The evacuation order came as Israel intensified its |
| 1:22.6 | bombardment of Gaza. This, after the militant group Hamas launched a brutal surprise attack on |
| 1:29.2 | Israel a week ago, which left at least 1,400 people dead. Here's Israeli military spokesman Daniel |
| 1:36.5 | Hagari. They knew that this would happen as a result of the brutal and ruthless massacre in |
| 1:44.4 | Israel. We're not fighting the people of Gaza. The civilians, the residents, we are fighting the |
| 1:51.5 | terrorist organization Hamas. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Israel's retaliation |
| 1:59.5 | against Hamas has left more than 2,700 Palestinians dead, at least 9,000 injured. Dr. Hassam Abu Safiya |
| 2:08.5 | at the Kamal Audwan Hospital in Gaza says he has seen things he never experienced in past wars. |
| 2:15.5 | He says the hospital received a man with his child. They both died holding one another, the father |
| 2:24.4 | holding his son. In another scene, he witnessed a mother died with her child on her chest. |
| 2:32.2 | And Palestinians who are still trying to flee may have nowhere to go. |
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