“Help Me Get Out of Gaza”: when Despair Weighs More than Patriotism

“I need to leave. It doesn’t matter how.” Despair makes Qassem Awad spit without filters what he feels from the crowded tent in which he has been living for months in southern Gaza. It’s not common because, despite hunger, bombs and lack of hope, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are not allowed to verbalize their desire to flee. But now fear is increasing, daily difficulties are multiplying, and more and more people, especially young people, expre…