t was mid-afternoon on October 14 when Ayman Alsayed got the call. It was his brother, Diaa, on the phone from Gaza City, seven hours ahead of where Ayman was in the U.S. Diaa was OK, but there had been an airstrike on their family house in Jabalia. Some of their loved ones had been killed, including their mother, Zahia. Others had survived — and were now stranded in the remnants of the building.
“He told me about my brother: ‘He can’t move and he’s wounded,’” Ayman recalled of Diaa’s desperate pleas for their injured brother Ashraf. “He told me, ‘Please, please — if you can do anything from America to help the family.’”
Ayman did not have many options.
“I didn’t know what to do,” he said. “We know it’s impossible to find somebody to help from here. But we did our best.”….more
