Huda Abu Abed feared only long waits and Israeli checks when she was told she could return to Gaza after two years in Egypt.
The 57-year-old Palestinian heart patient expected delays at the Rafah crossing, but she never imagined being blindfolded, interrogated for hours, witnessing her daughter beaten, and having her belongings confiscated.
Abu Abed had been evacuated to Egypt during the genocide for urgent medical treatment, accompanied by her daughter.
She was among the first group of Palestinians contacted by the Palestinian embassy in Egypt to return on Monday, following the partial reopening of the Rafah crossing – the first since May 2024.
The crossing reopened under heavy Israeli restrictions and monitoring, limiting the number of people allowed to enter or exit, and subjecting returnees to physical searches at a checkpoint in Rafah.
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