Appeal launched for mother who watched daughter (5) die from gunshot wound as family fled Gaza
As fighting intensifies between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, a Co Wicklow teacher has started a GoFundMe to help a heartbroken mother, who now shares her harrowing story of escape to Ireland, during which her husband and five-year-old daughter died
Halla and Chahd Al Saqqa, in Bray. Photo: Leigh Anderson.
A teacher who lives in Bray is making a desperate appeal for a “brave and beautiful” young woman and her daughter from Gaza, who arrived here without the rest of their family, after they were shot while fleeing northern Gaza for what they were told by the Israeli Defense Forces was safe passage south.
Halla Al Saqqa (33), arrived in Dublin in February with her seven-year-old daughter, Chahd, after a harrowing four-month journey, during which her youngest daughter, Rahaf (5), was shot and injured in the back seat of the car, and her husband was subsequently shot dead when he stopped and left the car to attend to his stricken daughter.
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