Palestinian Rim Abu Obeida from the Gaza Strip stashes food in her luggage in a small hotel near the Augusta Victoria Hospital in east Jerusalem, where she received treatment for cancer, on March 21, 2024. / Photo: AFP
"This week, we were suddenly told we had to return to Gaza. This is sending us to hell, to death!" Abu Obeida told AFP. But at the last minute, the Israeli Supreme Court, responding to a petition by the NGO Physicians for Human Rights, suspended COGAT's order. "I want to go back. But to my home, in my house! Not in Rafah, in the south, where they want us to go, I don't know anyone there," she said.
"We said we don't think it's the right thing to do but at the end of the day it's not our call," he added.While fighting rages, the patients facing a possible return to Gaza are conflicted.