across Gaza that they had fled. Not everyone has been able to return. Hanan Okal said her family’s building in Jabaliya was flattened. So they are staying in the nearby school-turned-shelter where they have been taking refuge.
Mariam Odeh speaks with her husband, Ahmed Odeh, sitting next to a small fire to warm himself in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Hanan Okal, 22, prepares tea for her children using an open fire inside a classroom at the Jabaliya Preparatory Girls School in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Hanan Okal, 22, prepares tea for her children using an open fire inside a classroom at the Jabaliya Preparatory Girls School in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Nylon covers holes in the destroyed walls of the Jabaliya Girls Preparatory School which displaced people are using as shelter in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Nylon covers holes in the destroyed walls of the Jabaliya Girls Preparatory School which displaced people are using as shelter in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
AP correspondent Lee Keath in Cairo contributed to this report.GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The main auditorium of the Islamic University of
is a gutted, burned-out wreck. Giant holes have been blasted through its blackened walls. The banks of seats are mangled and twisted.
And now the stage, once the scene of joyous graduation ceremonies, is crowded with the tents of the displaced. The campus has become a refuge for hundreds of families in northern Gaza since IsraelGianna Young, 7, right, and Isaac Young, 5, pose for a photo on their farm before going to vote with adoptive parents Mike and Erin Young on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Sunbury, Ohio. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Gianna Young, 7, left, Isaac Young, 5, center, and Lucas Young, 8, look at books in the back seat of the truck for the trip to vote with adoptive parents Mike and Erin Young on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Sunbury, Ohio. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Gianna Young, 7, left, Isaac Young, 5, center, and Lucas Young, 8, look at books in the back seat of the truck for the trip to vote with adoptive parents Mike and Erin Young on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Sunbury, Ohio. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
“Educating our kids why voting for leaders who honor and protect life is very important,” said Erin, who homeschools the children. She notes that she and her husband were told one of their children was born after the child’s biological mother took abortion medication that did not work.The Young children from left, Isaac, Lucas, and Gianna, attend the Ohio March for Life with their mom, Erin Young, at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. All three children are adopted. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)