Shaker Albuhaisi recalls the “shocked” faces of fellow students as they passed Rafah while being evacuated from Gaza to study in Ireland.
“We were able to see through the windows how much destruction is there. I’ve been to Rafah multiple times before the war, and I couldn’t even recognise the place, I couldn’t recognise where we were,” he said.
He was one of about 15 Gazan students on the bus, some of whom were Rafah residents before being displaced.
“They could not even recognise their own city,” he said.
It was one of several si
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