Tatyana, a Russian woman who managed to escape from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone and was evacuated to Moscow by a special flight organized by the Russian Emergencies Ministry, shared with TASS the distressing situation in Rafah, Gaza Strip. She described the presence of bodies left unburied in the streets of Rafah, emphasizing the lack of anyone to carry out proper burials for the deceased.
"Human bodies are just lying around, and the deceased children.... Who's going to bury them?" she lamented about the situation in the Palestinian town of Rafah. She shared that she lived there with her husband and owned a beauty salon. On the third day after the conflict started, their house was destroyed in a bombing raid. With no water or food in the town, she and her husband decided to seek safety. They reached a checkpoint on the border with Egypt and waited there to be allowed through.
In Russia, her initial plan is to take some time to rest. "Then I will come to my senses, and perhaps, I will open a salon for myself," she shared about her future plans with the news agency.
Shattah Mahmud Said, another Russian evacuated by an EMERCOM special airplane, expressed that his family's survival felt like a miracle. "This is not a war; this is a massacre. We thought we would not be saved. Thanks to Russia for not abandoning us," he told reporters. However, not everyone was able to leave with their relatives. One man, identifying himself as a doctor, explained that he had to leave his family in Gaza involuntarily. "It's hard for me; I left my relatives, brothers, sisters there. I don't know what's happening because they are bombing everywhere. They say it's a precision strike. It's not a precision strike; children are dying. We have to stop; people are dying," he expressed.
Families arriving in Moscow from the Gaza Strip, who have relatives in Chelyabinsk, chose to spend some time at a temporary accommodation center in Volokolamsk. This decision was made before proceeding to Chelyabinsk. Some evacuees will stay there until their documents are restored, while others, particularly two pregnant women, require medical supervision. The IL-76 aircraft, organized by the Russian Emergencies Ministry, transported 98 Russian citizens, accompanied by EMERCOM doctors and psychologists, who landed at Domodedovo airport on Wednesday night.
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Based on materials from TASS