“The question is survival” in Gaza, says a French woman worried about her family remaining in the Palestinian territory

“Living conditions are impossible” in Gaza, testified on franceinfo Anaïs, a 30-year-old French woman whose family is currently in Gaza. “Yesterday we tried to call all the numbers we knew, she explains. We just had a cousin who answered and was panicked. She was packing her things to go south with her children.”

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“However, we don’t know where to go in the south, adds the thirty-year-old. We have no particular knowledge. It means leaving your house, all your memories, where I spent part of my childhood and my studies. So it’s very hard. We say to ourselves: do we stay there or do we go down? But risk is everywhere. There are no more shelters.”

“These are people who are leaving in exodus, we are there.”

Anaïs, a French woman whose family has to flee Gaza

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She claims that her relatives are not “safe“, “bombs fall all the time“. And immediately, “the question is survival. It’s the only obsession. It’s simply knowing where we’re going to go, where we’re going to keep our children safe. Should we leave? Should we stay? This is really the question that is super important. (…) These are people who are leaving on an exodus. We are there”adds Anaïs.

Especially since in these conditions, she says she is very worried about the members of her family who are sick: “I have two cousins ​​who have cancer, who can no longer take their medications or their chemo. They can’t go check on our Aunt Leila.“

On Friday October 13, the Israeli army requested the evacuation of all civilians from Gaza City to the south of the territory, within 24 hours. “A massive population displacement in such a short time is illusory“, reacted on franceinfo Frédéric Joli, spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross.