2023-10-16 13:45:14
Testimony from the field:
Ibrahim al Qarnaoui arrived in Gaza a few days ago to see his family. Now, surprised by the conflict, he hopes that his
Swiss passport allows you to leave
of the Palestinian enclave permanently bombed by Israel, while it remains blocked at Rafah, the border crossing with Egypt.
The Swiss embassy in Israel “told us yesterday to come to the Rafah border post”, the only exit point from Gaza that is not under Israeli control, he told AFP. A person responsible for
The United States announced an agreement with Egypt and Israel
to open that passage for a few hours to let the Americans out. Other foreigners or people with nationality must wait. “The border post is not open,” recalls Qarnaoui, who prefers not to return to his family’s home in the Bureij refugee camp, further north, while the Israeli bombing continues.
No taxi ventures on the roads, so this man,
77 years old
, he had to find a local resident who would agree to take him in for the night. «We all slept on the floor, it was very cold. Then, one of the residents (of the house) took me to the terminal this morning,” he says. “Half an hour later, we found out that his home had just been bombed,” he adds.
About thirty people with foreign passports wait near the terminal, bombed three times at the beginning of the offensive launched by Israel in response to the attack carried out by militants from the Islamist movement Hamas, which killed more than 1,400 people.
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