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19-year-old Jumana, who goes by the nickname JoJo, was in her first year of university studying IT. Over the past month she has been in close contact with the ABC, documenting her hazardous journey through Gaza.

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The eastern outskirts of Gaza City used to be the home of Jumana and her family.

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Much of Gaza City has been intensely bombed by the IDF and reduced to rubble.

(Photo: AP / Fatima Shbair)

The Rafah border crossing, as seen from the Palestinian side, near where Jumana is staying with her family.

(Photo: Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Escape from Gaza

Jumana and her family are hoping to flee the war in Gaza and come to Australia.

They’ve been displaced at least 12 times, but have stopped counting. Since this phase of the war escalated in October 2023, they have lost 20 family members.

Months after fleeing her home, Jumana is now caught in a perilous waiting game as she attempts the final leg of her journey — out of Gaza, into Egypt, and onto the first available flight to Australia.

It’s been a race against the clock to escape before the impending ground invasion of Rafah by the Israeli military.

Jumana and her family’s desperate journey shows how more than half of Gaza fell into a state of ruin in the Israel-Hamas war.

Their journey through Gaza to the brink of escape is as astonishing as it is heartbreaking.

By Zena Chamas, Kevin Nguyen, Mark Doman and Katia Shatoba / ABC Investigations and Digital Story Innovations

ABC News - 22 March 2024

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