With both homes at war, a Ukrainian mother in Gaza struggles to find new place to go with her 5 children
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Tatyana Tapalova's home nation of Ukraine has now been at war with Russia for nearly two years. But as a longtime resident of Gaza with her husband and their five children, Tapalova has been left with a heartwrenching choice – stay in the territory to keep her family together, or flee to an entirely new place to take care of her children as a single parent from two war-torn lands.
Tapalova and her children, including a 9-month-old baby, have been granted access to leave Gaza through the Rafah border crossing. Her husband, however, was not.
"This is my husband, we've been married for the past 23 years. We have five children. How is he not on the list?" she told Reuters. "This is a family. Why do they want to separate our family? ... I have a baby, I can't do it alone in a new country."
