Crime & Safety
Medway Family Desperately Trying To Evacuate Gaza Stuck At Egyptian Border
The U.S. State Department says nearly 1,000 Americans and their families have been flown out of Israel so far.
October 17, 2023
BOSTON - Some families in Gaza say they're trying to comply with Israel's evacuation orders but the border crossings are closed and the air strikes keep coming.
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One of them is the Okal family from Medway. Wafaa Abuzayda and Abood Okal and their one-year-old son Yousef are all U.S. citizens. They were visiting relatives in Gaza when Hamas attacked on October 7 and they've been scrambling to get back to Massachusetts ever since.
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Wafaa Abuzayda and Abood Okal and their son Yousef/CBS Boston via Sammy Nabulsi
The U.S. State Department says nearly 1,000 Americans and their families have been flown out of Israel so far. The Okals' friend, Sammy Nabulsi, thinks the American effort to get citizens out of Gaza has been lopsided and insufficient.
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