On Tuesday night, a six-year-old girl called Marlin and her grandmother were finally able to make the journey from the Palestinian city of Rafah to Cairo in Egypt.
Marlin’s mother, Israa, is a postgraduate student at St Andrews University in Scotland. Before the war started, she was forced by Britain’s strict visa rules to make the toughest decision of her life – choosing to take the academic opportunity of a lifetime while leaving her daughter in the care of her mother in Gaza.
Israa could never have imagined that Marlin would spend four horrific months forced to see, hear, feel and smell Israel’s slaughter day and night. In Scotland, she has spent the same four months helplessly praying for her daughter’s survival.
