Separated by politics, a Gaza family longs for Mother's Day reunion


Palestinian woman Niveen Gharqoud sits with her son Amir at their home in the central Gaza Strip March 15, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

GAZA/QALQILYA (Reuters) - Sunday is Mother's Day across most of the Middle East but, for the third year running, Gaza resident Niveen Gharqoud will be forced to spend it without four of her five children.

They haven't met since 2018, when she sent them to live with their father Sami in Qalqilya, a West Bank city east of the military wall that separates Israel from the occupied Palestinian territories.

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