Adam, a youth worker, and his sisters, Saja and Shaiman

Adam, 29, is a youth worker in Gaza. His two sisters are Saja, 25, and Shaiman, 26. They were among the four families who kept video diaries for the first year of the war, for a BBC documentary, “One year of war in Gaza: Life, Death, and Hope.”

The two sisters are sheltering at a United Nations school with many other displaced Gazans. “We’re trying to imagine ourselves playing with our cats in our garden at home, or on the beach in Gaza, sipping coffee,” says Saja. “We hope peace comes to Gaza soon.”

The school has already been bombed once, with Adam inside. There were many dead. It is attacked again and the family decides to leave. But nowhere is safe.

Adam’s brother, who lives in Ireland, manages to raise enough money through an online appeal — $21,000 — to pay an Egyptian travel company to get Adam and his two sisters through the Rafah Crossing with Egypt. They get out before Israel occupies the Palestinian side and Egypt shuts it down. At the end of the film, they are in Cairo.

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