In a thread on Twitter, a palestinian woman from Gaza narrated the story of her exit, and how her journey in Egypt “made her the person she is today,”

She began the thread by telling the story of an interaction she had with a vendor in Attaba, “In Al-Attaba, we were a group with Rita (2 years old). A vendor extended his hand and waved at her, so she shook his hand and blew him an air kiss as she usually does. He called us over and asked for her name. I looked at him and saw his face was covered in knife scars, so I got scared. But Rita went to him as if nothing was wrong. I greeted him from a distance. He asked, ‘You’re not Egyptian?’ I told him, ‘I’m from Gaza.’ He hugged the children, started crying, and gave each of them a wooden necklace, absolutely refusing to take payment for them.”

She continued, “There was a young man next to him, who turned out to be his brother selling shoes. We bought three pairs of shoes and paid enough to compensate for his brother’s loss from the necklaces. But then, the vendor grabbed his brother and swore at him, shouting at us to take the rest by force until we eventually did.”

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She then went on to narrate her Ramadan experience in Cairo, “The first days of Ramadan were the hardest for me. On the third day, I heard a knock at the door and found a Sudanese woman who introduced herself as Umm Musab and brought me “Asida. In the days that followed, we exchanged many dishes to the point where she would bring her kids and iftar to our place. One time, Haya got sick, and she was the one who went with her to the hospital and stayed until midnight, even though the next day was her daughter’s engagement.”

She also recalled the time a famous person from “X” visited her, “Sara, a well-known figure from Twitter, was someone I had never met before. To me, she was the first “celebrity” I encountered. On her first visit to our house, she brought around 16 meals that couldn’t even fit in the fridge, saying, “There’s no time to cook, take your time to grieve.”

Adding, “She facilitated the kids’ school admissions when no school would accept them and helped with a lot of legal paperwork. She did so many things I can’t mention because they’d put her at risk. When she left, I didn’t say goodbye—I couldn’t. Sara remains the most spiritual experience of friendship I’ve ever had.”