With no centralised relief effort in Egypt, Palestinians are relying on grassroots charities for food, rent and clothing
he last thing Rania sold was her jewellery. In the weeks after her family first woke up to heavy shelling in northern, they lost everything as they journeyed south to escape the bombs. “Wherever we went, the houses would be destroyed,” she says. “We were sent running from place to place.”
Rania and her family are relying on grassroots charities to help them pay for food and rent for an apartment in Cairo. It stands in sharp contrast to her old life when, Rania says, she was the one people came to for support. Her husband earned a good salary working for an aid organisation – they owned two houses, two cars, and her children attended university. The family spent nights out in restaurants and cafes. In the summer, they would drive to the beach.
Like many, Layla’s family in Europe launched an online crowdfunding campaign to raise the $25,000 needed for their evacuation. They are now living in temporary accommodation in Egypt. Their efforts to join relatives in Europe have so far come to nothing.– similar to the one put in place for people fleeing the war in Ukraine – has amassed the required 100,000 signatures needed to trigger a parliamentary debate.
Dawn Chatty, professor emerita of anthropology and forced migration at the University of Oxford, says she is not surprised by the lack of a coordinated response to Palestinians entering Egypt. One volunteer is Amira, an operations manager from Cairo who joined a local group at the outbreak of the war to send food and aid packages to Gaza. Since Palestinians began arriving in Egypt, Amira has focused her efforts on supporting them with food, clothing and accommodation. “People are coming here with nothing,” Amira says. “They are starved and hungry.
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