“No more life is possible here.” Riad Rashwan refused to imagine leaving Gaza. But now, for him and his family, it is a matter of survival. From the Palestinian enclave continuously bombarded by Israel for almost two years, this translator has launched an aid call.
Every day, he writes to Marion Barailles, a French translator like him. She lives thousands of kilometers, in Fontainebleau. In March 2024, the one who met Riyadh in 2013 in Gaza, launched an award. Objective: Evacuate it, he, his wife and two children of hell that has become the Palestinian enclave. To date, he has raised more than 11,000 euros.
“He had been able to support a humanitarian mission in the Gaza Strip, with the Palestine Association of France. On that date, the population already lived in very difficult conditions, but they were still trying to apply to make the bad fortune a good heart,” recalls the Bellifontaine with the Republic of Seine-Et-Marne.
A family that survives
In the act, Riad, his wife Ahed, and his two children suffered the ravages of war. After the bombing of their building, they had to leave the city of Gaza. The little family took refuge in the south of the enclave. But there they also attacked Israeli bombs. In extreme, the translator and his wife managed to save their children, prisoners of the rubble.
For a year and a half that the prize was launched, the family has survived, despite the famine and bombings, hoping to leave Gaza. In March 2024, “an Egyptian agency still allowed it, but it was necessary to gather funds in emergency. Now, the exit door has closed, but I do not lose hope, hence the importance of continuing this collection of funds,” explains Marion Barailles to our colleagues.
The Bellifontaine translator does not lose hope. From France, it has noticed the compassion that the situation wakes up in Gaza. But few know how to act. “I tell myself to help a family is very concrete. If they could finally leave, I tell myself that this kitten will allow them to start.”
From the enclave, Riyad Rashwan claims to have made a request for humanitarian evacuation to the French consulate in Jerusalem. According to him, the latter, “now asked him to provide documents to instruct my request.”
Source: BFM TV
