Palestinian-Canadian Faiza Najjar was able to leave Gaza last year, but could not bring her four adult daughters with her. She watched from a distance as food shortages in the territory worsened.

From Canada, where she lives with her six other children, Najjar pursued a months-long effort to get those she had left out of Gaza.

She finally embraced her daughters and seven grandchildren when they arrived at Toronto's airport last month.

But when clips of the emotional reunion were posted on social media, pro-Israeli accounts mocked her physical appearance saying it disproved claims of starvation in Gaza.

"As a mother it just destroyed me," Najjar, 50, told AFP.

Najjar did not claim that she went hungry while in Gaza.

But as recently as this past weekend a post viewed more than 300,000 times across multiple platforms ridiculed her, erroneously implying she had just left Gaza.

"Did you see what that woman looked like?" the poster said, pointing out Najjar does not look undernourished.

United Nations agencies have warned that famine was unfolding in........

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