Chicago-area Palestinian Americans overwhelmed by grief as family members face death and destruction in Gaza

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The Muslim community feeling helpless as many relatives and friends are killed, injured or buried under rubble by Israeli airstrikes.

Two rows of men sat in near silence, ignoring the plates of dates on offer inside the Mosque Harlem Center in Bridgeview as the first snow of the year fluttered outside the window. Others trickled in, by twos and threes to embrace Mohammed Aburealh, who was mourning more than 30 extended family members killed days earlier by Israeli bombs dropped during fighting between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas.

” Aburealh, the former head nurse at Stroger Hospital, said he has witnessed trauma and disastrous injuries, but nothing like the images he’s seeing recently out of Gaza. “I’ve never seen body parts of children all over the scene,” he said. Many Palestinian Americans with relatives in the West Bank and Gaza told the Tribune that their lives have ground to a halt as they try to keep up with the destruction in their homeland.

 

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