Palestinians Chase Safety Across the Border to Egypt

Palestinians Chase Safety Across the Border to Egypt

Tens of thousands of Palestinians fleeing the war in Gaza arrived in Egypt within the last two years, clutching stamped visas, papers that offer shelter but little else. As they try to establish new routines in their new refuge, guarantees of stability feel like a distant hope.  “We watched in horror the war, destruction, and devastation that took over Gaza,” Nael Youssef Abzaanin, a 42-year-old Palestinian father of three boys, told Egyptian St…