On October 30, 2023, Youmna Elsayed, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza, received threats from Israeli forces to vacate her home in Gaza City.

“The phone call that we received was from a private number. The caller gave my husband his full name and told him that ‘this is the Israeli army, we are telling you to evacuate south because in the coming hours, it is going to be very dangerous in the area where you are at’.

*In the midst of all this bombardment, I don’t know how safe it would be to actually take our car and leave and drive under this heavy bombardment. It’s very risky, it doesn’t seem safe at all; in the past days, we’ve been seeing videos of cars that were directly targeted while they were on the street going to the south. So it’s really a very tense situation, I don’t think that if I risk my life and the life of my kids to take this journey that this could be a right decision. And at the same time, they called us directly and warned us telling us to leave now but the bombardment is relentless, how are people like me and others are going to be able to leave?” *

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