Palestinian citizen Samaher Ali Zaiyd Almassri, who was in the Gaza Strip with her family, arrived in Colombia, thanks to the humanitarian gesture of President Gustavo Petro, who authorized her naturalization as a Colombian citizen. teleSUR
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00:00 In Colombia, a Palestinian family arrived after national government mediation achieved
00:04 their departure from Gaza.
00:06 After long days of anguish and uncertainty in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian citizen
00:10 Samah Al-Masri and her family managed to escape from the Israeli siege.
00:17 A humanitarian gesture of the Colombian government made possible the naturalization of the whole
00:21 family.
00:22 They were first reunited in Egypt, where the Latin American diplomatic representation spent
00:25 exhausting hours of visual together with the father of the family, a Colombian Palestinian
00:30 merchant, until it was demonstrated that the whole family was going through a naturalization
00:34 process that made them Colombian citizens.
00:37 On their arrival, they told about the horror that's being lived in the coastal enclave.
00:43 "It is a very difficult experience, very painful.
00:50 Only God knows it.
00:51 The houses are destroyed.
00:54 The buildings are falling on the people who are inside.
00:57 In the street, there is no water because they have cut off the water supply.
01:01 Total destruction."
01:02 Let's take a short break.