Palestinian-British girl, 6, dies after family drowns off UK coast

On a sweltering Tuesday in August, a Palestinian-British family of four drove to the Sussex coast seeking relief from the heat — and did not return. Hassan El-Khawas, his wife Zeina, and their daughters Sara and Saja, a family who had already traveled far from a refugee camp in Lebanon to build a life in London, were taken by the sea at Shoreham beach. Their deaths, complete and total, are a quiet indictment of a world in which extreme heat has made even the search for comfort a matter of survival.