“Our conversations have shifted from daily vacation updates to proof-of-life updates,” family members of Palestinian Americans trapped in Gaza said.
Helal Kaoud, left, stands with her cousins, Dooneya Kaoud, and sister Shamiss Kaoud, as Shamiss speaks emotionally of family members trapped in Gaza, during a press conference at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR-LA, offices in Anaheim on Thursday, October 26, 2023. Dina Chehata, civil rights managing attorney for CAIR-LA stands at right. CAIR-LA and the family wants the U.S.
Dina Chehata, civil rights managing attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR-LA, speaks during a press conference in their offices in Anaheim on Thursday, October 26, 2023. CAIR-LA wants the U.S. government to get the Palestinian-Americans currently trapped in Gaza, out of the country and back to the U.S.
“Not only is he worried about surviving the air strikes, he is worried about whether or not his medication will last,” she said. “It is imperative that he gets back home.” The Kaoud brothers Hesham, Jamal, Esam and Nezam, with Esam’s son Ameer, pictured in Gaza. Family members say the brothers are now stranded in the war zone amid the Israel-Hamas war.
The Kaoud family, including father Esam and son Ameer, whom family members say are trapped in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war. The Kaoud family was planning the “trip of a lifetime” to visit relatives,” said Dina Chehata, CAIR-LA’s civil rights managing attorney. “All six men are now trapped in Gaza in what has become nothing short of a hellscape for them.
Helal Kaoud, from Riverside, said her father Esam Kaoud, Jamal’s brother, was visiting Gaza for the first time in more than 20 years. Knowing the risks, he had promised his wife he would be safe and home in a month.US presses Gulf allies to help stem fresh fundraising for Hamas“On Sept. 25, my dad, my 20-year-old brother and four of my uncles, who are all U.S. citizens, went to visit our family in Gaza,” Helal Kaoud, 28, said through tears. “Two weeks into their vacation, the attacks started.
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