Calgary woman shares long journey from Gaza to Alberta [Video]

After fleeing Gaza City last October, time was ticking before Ashjan AbuRabee had to give birth to her fourth child.

“It was so scary, and I was pregnant — in my fifth month at that time,” AbuRabee said through a translator, her brother Tamer Jarada. “My main worry was that we would be losing our lives — or our families.”

On October 25, AbuRabee and her brother lost their two parents, two sisters and 12 other family members during an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

In November, the family made their way to Central Gaza for a month and half before arriving at a refugee camp in Rafah in January. The pregnant mother stayed there with her husband, and three kids in a tent.

“(It was an) open area where people just put their tents,” said Tamer, translating his sister’s story. “There was no infrastructure there: no water,  no electricity.

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