Not first flight.
Not other planes.
But on the third evacuation flight from Israel to Norway, Mazal Zarhin’s daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren arrived.
She and her daughter Kim Zarhin waited anxiously for the little family when the plane landed at 9.06pm at Gardermoen.
Kim Zarhin and Mazal Zarhin are very relieved to have finally brought their family to Norway.
– It has been very tough, I haven’t been myself, says Mazal.
She and her daughter back home in Norway have been very worried about their relatives in the south of Israel.
– Our whole family lives in Israel, near Gaza. It has been horrible to wait, says Kim.
Now they are very happy to have them back in Norway, and mum Mazal hopes her daughter and her family will stay in Norway.
– I have felt like a roof collapse
Elfi Edsberg (79) from Arendal was also on the third evacuation plane.
– I have felt like a roof collapse, says daughter Ellen Anita Duedahl as she waits for her mother at the airport.
Ellen Anita Duedahl is waiting for her mother Elfi Edsberg at Gardermoen airport.
Photo: Johan Moen / NRK
– There has been a lot of chaos, newspaper reading and text messages. We have been in contact almost every hour in the past week, Duedahl continues.
Edsberg had plans to run an Israeli sailors’ boarding house in Ashdod for seven weeks, before the war broke out after the second week and she had to look home.
She became worried when she heard about terrorists knocking on doors, says the daughter. She felt abandoned by the Norwegian authorities because of the few flights and the fact that she had to pay for the return journey herself.
Here, Elfi Edsberg (79) meets her daughter.
The war escalates
But not only Duedahl has traveled today. Many Palestinians are traveling down the Gaza Strip to seek shelter from Israel’s expected counter-offensive in northern Gaza.
It is the Israeli authorities who have ordered the evacuation to spare Palestinian civilians. But the UN advises against evacuation and the Norwegian Refugee Council calls it collective punishment.
Israeli military forces are moving in the direction of Gaza.
Photo: AFP
The Israeli authorities have given the Al Awda hospital in Gaza a postponed deadline until 6 o’clock Saturday morning to evacuate. At first the deadline was only two hours.
– The extension of the extreme deadline does not change the reality at all. In any case, it is an impossible task to evacuate the hospital within that deadline, writes Doctors Without Borders in an e-mail to NRK.
The Israeli Defense Forces say they understand that it is taking longer than stated to evacuate, but stress that it is urgent for them to act because this is a war against their existence.
A group of young Jewish men put up posters showing kidnapped or missing Israelis after the Hamas attack in Israel, in Stamford Hill, London on October 13, 2023.
Photo: DANIEL LEAL / AFP
The war broke out after the terrorist organization Hamas carried out a surprise attack last Saturday in Israel where they killed more than 1,300 people. Up to 150 in Israel are said to have been kidnapped and taken hostage in Gaza. At the same time, around 1,800 have been killed in Israeli airstrikes against Gaza, according to the Palestinian authorities.
2023-10-13 20:36:22
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