More than three decades after Palestinian Samir El-Barawy and his new Bosnian bride fled to Gaza to escape bloody fighting in Yugoslavia, the couple has been forced out again by war.
The flight back to Bosnia from his home in northern Gaza was filled with peril, and their house was hit by an air strike just days after a Hamas onslaught across southern Israel triggered conflict anew.
“I left everything behind, but I’m alive”, the 59-year-old Palestinian told AFP just days after arriving at a refugee centre in Bosnia’s Salakovac.