How a group of veterans helped a U.S. service member's mother get out of war-torn Gaza

How a group of veterans helped a U.S. service member’s mother get out of war-torn Gaza

May 12, 2024 Benjamin Hughes

On this Mother’s day, we have a story from Gaza that’s unlike any we’ve heard before. Zahra Skaik, a 44-year-old Palestinian woman living in Gaza City, escaped the war thanks to her American sons — one of whom is an army specialist. Some of the things Zahra has to say about how Hamas and the Israeli army have been treating civilians are hard to hear — and even harder to confirm as the fighting continues and foreign journalists are largely barred from the area. But Zahra’s story, unlike so many that we’re learning about from the region, does have a somewhat happy ending.

We sat down with Zahra last month, and she told us she left Gaza in late December with nothing but a small backpack and the same clothes she’d been wearing since the war began.

Margaret Brennan: You didn’t bring anything from your home with you?

Margaret Brennan

Margaret Brennan is the moderator of “Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan” on CBS. She is also the Network’s chief foreign affairs correspondent based in Washington, D.C.

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