Ahmed Hamdan, who He has many relatives still in Gazasays that it is increasingly difficult to get some money into the Strip: “It is impossible for anything to arrive; neither merchants nor people who can send them money,” he says.

The last bastion of hope for Gazans was Rafah. However, the city is blown up and, with it, the few operational ATMs. Right now, there are no bills left in Gaza, which triggers the pettiness of the armed gangs. “If you want to send money, the commissions are 25%“Ahmed emphasizes.

To these expenses are added the ‘official’ commissions and the monetary exchange, so finally a tiny amount arrives with which family members are sometimes not sure if they are helping or simply prolonging their agony. “We are feeding you so you can survive until they bomb you,” laments Hadil, whose family lives in Gaza. Neither the woman nor she can consider the option of removing her family members from her, since, as she points out, to do so, “you have to pay almost 35,000 euros”. “And that’s just for three or four members,” she adds.

Before the conflict, Gaza had 56 bank branches and 91 ATMs. However, on May 13 There were only five branches left. and seven cashiers. Not even the 30,000 officials who depend on the Palestinian National Authority in the Strip manage to receive their full salary. “It is in the hands of Israel,” says Palestinian journalist Majed Dibsi.

Without direct help from family members, the only option left is to survive with humanitarian aid that does not arrive either. “There is really no life in Gaza; what there is are two million human beings who are without anything“, denounces the Palestinian journalist Majed Dibsi. The desperate cry of these people is for the International Community to wake up.