Wedding music mixed with shouts. I watched over the balcony edge as armed men in black poured out of vehicles.
I grew up in Gaza, where my parents worked for the Baptist nursing school from 1989-1995.The past months have been agonizing as I watch my childhood home destroyed. With the war unfolding in the news every day, many are calling for an end to violence, and to liberate Gazans from Hamas.I share these calls, and deeply wish our current involvement there had a chance of doing either.
My dad, who managed payroll at the nursing school, traveled to Israel monthly to retrieve cash for employee salaries, and to get any mail for our team from the Ashkelon post office. Sometimes we made these trips as a family.The crossing—both out of and back into Gaza—was scary and unpredictable. The border might be closed, or the wait long, and the good-cop-bad-cop routine was tense at best.Jittery though we were, we girls learned to smile charmingly through the car window.
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