'There's nowhere to go'

Emad Shehada has felt helpless and hopeless since war broke out between Israel and Hamas. It's a hopelessness that keeps "creeping into my soul every day," he told the Detroit Free Press, part of the Paste BN Network.

The 47-year-old pulmonologist in metro Detroit is one of many people in the U.S. with ties to Gaza and Israel feeling the effects of the war. He hasn't taken a break from work at his private practice — in part because he says he has an obligation to his patients, but also because the second he comes home: "everything comes back."

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have killed thousands of people. Shehada has lost 20 family members, including cousins and their children. 

"There’s nowhere to go," he said. "Families are hiding together, and they are going to be targeted together."

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