On October 7, Leila (a pseudonym, as are the other names in this report), an Israeli woman in her 40s who was born in Jaffa, was in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. She had arrived there only a few days earlier, and was in the midst of gathering documents ahead of her permanent return to Israel with her children – all of them Israeli citizens. « The girls had gone off to school, » she recalls. « We didn’t understand what had happened or which side had attacked. That was very difficult. All I wanted was for my children to be beside me. »
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