Families in Southern California wait anxiously for their loved ones to return home from Gaza amidst the war.
from SUN 3:00 AM PDT until MON 10:00 PM PDT, Orange County Coastal, Orange County Inland, Riverside County Mountains, San Bernardino County Mountains, San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire, Santa Ana Mountains and FoothillsLoay Elbasyouni, a Palestinian-American engineer who helped with NASA projects like the Mars rover, is spending most of his time trying to reach his father and mother. His parents were visiting their birthplace in Gaza when the war broke out.
The last time he heard from them, they were hiding with family members at an abandoned clinic where the now-retired surgeon used to work.His parents hold passports from Germany, where they currently live. They were given a map to an evacuation route out of the war zone established by the Israeli government. There are about 1700 foreigners now stuck in Gaza, including about 600 Americans.
Their families watched the efforts President Biden made to evacuate hundreds of Americans from Israel when the war began.State officials said they are negotiating to get the Egyptian side of the border open, but so far, there are no reports of people being able to get out that way.
The Council said that the majority of the casualties in Gaza are civilians. They want a full stop to the Israeli attack. "We went from phone conversations about vacation visits to how to identify their bodies," says a teary young woman, whose family members are hiding near central Gaza. "And that’s when we can get a call through, which is every couple of days, if we are lucky."
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