A Mississauga woman stranded in Gaza has revealed she is afraid she could die at any moment as warplanes of Israel drop bombs around her in the sealed-off Palestinian territory, and she’s crying for the government’s help.
The woman, Khloud Fayyad, cried as she spoke on phone from Khan Yunis, a city in southern Gaza. She said: “Please, please, please, please help us.”
The sound of exploding bombs was audible in the background while the 60-year-old mother of three paused and said she could hear an Israeli warplane flying overhead.
She said: “They can drop anywhere, any time. I’m very scared. I really need help. Everything is destroyed around us. Everything.”
Fayyad revealed that she left her three sons in Mississauga to visit her sick 85-year-old father in Gaza a week before Israel started its massive bombardment of Gaza in retaliation for a fatal attack by Hamas militants, which killed Israeli soldiers, civilians and children.
Hamas has said the attack was retribution for worsening conditions Palestinians encountered under Israeli occupation. The militants and another Gaza-based group known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad have claimed to be holding at least 150 hostages – soldiers and civilians.
While talking to The Canadian Press that she evaded Israeli strikes narrowly but three of her cousins were killed.
Fayyad said she called the Canadian Embassy in Tel Aviv when the war started to report that she was a citizen stuck in Gaza. They took her number and promised to call back but did not call her.
Also, the embassy told her to call a United Nations emergency line, she did but no one picked up.
While talking further, Fayyad said she has sought shelter in a school, which is ten minutes away from her family house.
She said she has been going to the house once a day, to eat a small piece of bread and sip of water with her family, before returning to the school, which has no water, food or electricity.
Msllam Fayadh, Fayyad’s 30-year-old son in Mississauga, revealed it has not been easy for him as he has constantly been on his phone talking to her to be sure she is okay.
In a phone interview, he said: “Every second I’m not sure if she’s gonna be alive. Then I’m getting a text message, ‘Oh, she’s alive now.
“I talk to her for five minutes. I hear bombs, bombs, bombs and she shuts down the phone. You can’t even hear her clearly. I’m very scared, I’m very frustrated. My mindset is all over the place.
“The whole city is shaking.”
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