According to the United States, Benjamin Netanyahu supports the American plan for a truce in Gaza. More than 100,000 residents have already fled the enclave since the start of the war between Hamas and Israel to go to Egypt.
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Since October 7, more than 100,000 Gazans have fled Israeli bombs and taken refuge in Egypt. Most pay a toll of $5,000 per adult to end up in Cairo, without a residence permit and simply tolerated by the authorities. They survive thanks to the help of associations but have difficulty finding employment and their future remains very uncertain.
This is the case of Dalia and Baha, a couple from Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, who now live in the Egyptian capital. These young parents fled the war to save their baby’s life. Their daughter was born at the end of October at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis under Israeli strikes. “My husband and I drove to the hospital and it was bombing all around us,” says Dalia.
“Even when I was giving birth, I heard the bombs all the time.”
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She leaves the hospital with her daughter, but the family is short of water and food. Flight is inevitable, according to Baha, Dalia’s husband: “At first I didn’t want to travel because I had to pay a 5% toll 000 dollars per adult. But for Nermine, there was too much suffering and bombing around us. I am her father and I could not protect her so I said to myself: ‘that’s enough, I’m going to travel’ and I paid”.
So they spend all their savings to cross the border at the end of February. A Palestinian aid association pays their rent in Cairo, but the allowance expires in August. “I don’t want us to be kicked out of here. If we’re on the street, what can we do with the baby?”Dalia wonders. They have no access to employment because they don’t have a residence permit. Baha despairs in the face of this situation: “Thinking about the future is tiring, psychologically tiring”They are safe from the bombs but stuck in Egypt. Their daily worry now is to provide a roof over their daughter’s head.
