According to the 23-year-old, her brothers, sister, nieces and nephews she was forced to leave behind are either stuck in the region, have been killed, or are injured or missing.
Here in Canada, it's so hard to continue. It's so hard to do anything... she's fighting just to get by here.
El-Khalidy is one of the lucky few able to leave because she has family in Canada. But like many others, she arrived with no belongings and no money.
Rani Hemaid advocated for the creation of a family reunification program for Palestinian Canadians, which he says is currently slow and discriminatory.
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