Twenty-one-year-old Palestinian computer engineering student from Gaza, Shaimaa Ahmed, says she’s hopeful, but at the same time very scared, that a ceasefire deal recently negotiated between Hamas and Israel won’t stick. Ahmed lives in the central city of Deir al-Balah. She tells The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler that she’s still deeply worried that she’ll wake up to find the people she loves are gone.
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