HER life should have been so different. Six months ago she married her Palestinian husband and they’d planned to carve out a life for themselves in the beautiful Cape, in between the mountain and the sea.
Things looked rosy for Angela van der Merwe – but instead of watching the clouds roll in over Table Mountain, she now has to keep a wary eye on the sky for airstrikes from Israel.
“You feel like a hostage. You can’t go anywhere. You wonder if you’re going to be the next target,” she tells YOU over a WhatsApp video call from Rafah, north of Gaza City, where she’s