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I JUST WANT TO GO HOME

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

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