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Some of the contents of Menna Hijazi's emergency bag she packed to escape her house during an Israeli attack in May 2021. It included a piece of embrodery from a roommate during a study abroad in the United States.

Menna Hijazi and her family were forced to escape their home and shelter with neighbors during an Israeli attack on Gaza in May 2021. “Personally, I do not believe any place will feel safer than the other, ” Hijazi writes. “It is just a reflex to save our souls from an imminent attack, not our lives.”