TESTIMONY. War between Israel and Hamas: for Palestinians who manage to leave the Gaza Strip, Egypt can only be a step
With the threat of the Rafah offensive, more and more Palestinians are seeking to leave Gaza. According to the Palestinian ambassador in Cairo (Egypt), more than 80,000 people have already fled the enclave since the start of the war. But the exit ticket costs a fortune and the status of the Palestinians is then precarious.
With his entire family, Khaled took 24 hours to cross the border, before driving towards Cairo, where he is now staying in an apartment. “Exhausted”, he whispers. Until the last moment, this Médecins du monde employee believed that he was going to get stuck. The first thing he did when he left was buy what is overpriced today in the Gaza Strip. “We all went down to a supermarket,” he says.
To get out, Khaled had to pay almost 40,000 euros to the Egyptians. Most Gazans today are looking for financial support to offer themselves a future elsewhere. “Most don’t want to stay because there is no life there. Even if the war ends tomorrow, there are no schools, no hospitals, there is nothing .”
However, the road does not end there. The status of Palestinians in Egypt is precarious. Khaled has 45 days to find a new home port. “I’m thinking: what’s the next step? Where to go? We don’t have anything legal here in Egypt, unfortunately. They don’t want to consider us refugees.”
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