They'll pay anything to get out
Ahmed Jamal, 35, is an English teacher whose two small children wake up screaming and crying most nights, wet their beds, hide and won't come out because they are scared they are going to die.
"Our situation is getting worse each day," Jamal said in a phone interview Saturday from his sister's bombed out home in Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza.
Jamal and his sister Amal Nassar, whose challenges being pregnant in Gaza during the war were chronicled by Paste BN, are hoping that once they have sufficient funds, Hala Consulting and Tourism Services, a travel agency in Cairo connected to Egypt's military and intelligence agencies, will help their families cross the border.
They are among a growing population of Gazans who have lost everything are trying to raise tens of thousands of dollars to pay the Egyptian company help them evacuate their families across the border from Rafah.