'Am I in a nightmare?': Palestinian recounts evacuating from Gaza while her brothers, father stayed behind
Following the 24-hour Gaza evacuation notice, Amel Safi said the women in her family and her youngest brother fled to Khan Yunis while the men stayed behind. Amel Safi did not say goodbye to her brothers before she fled Gaza because it would have made it harder to leave, the 22-year-old Palestinian told ABC News. Following Israel's warning to evacuate northern Gaza Friday ahead of a potential ground incursion, Safi said her mother came to her and asked her to pack her "most precious" items in a small bag and the women in her family went to Khan Yunis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, while the men stayed behind. MORE: Israel-Gaza live updates "I was crying from the moment that my mum told me I have to prepare my bag. I feel like I couldn't talk with my brothers because I'm going to cry more," Safi told ABC News in a Zoom interview on Friday. "I don't want to see them because I know if I have seen them, I would cry more." "I don...