Journalist Fled Gaza To Save Her Family

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journalist fled gaza to save her family

Picture and Words: Matthew Hirsch / GroundUp

A week after Al Jazeera's Gaza-based journalist Youmna El Sayed fled to Egypt in December, her five-year-old daughter, Joury, asked her when they would return home.

I told her the bombs had not stopped, said El Sayed. She told me, it's enough. I've rested for a week. I want to go back.

In the process of fleeing, Joury had to leave her kitten behind, which broke her heart, she said.

Her family was displaced six times, El Sayed told GroundUp at an event in the Bo-Kaap during a Southern African tour arranged by Salaam Media.