Desperate Gazans Use Crowdsourcing to Bribe Their Way Into Egypt
- The costs are as much as $10,000 a person for ‘coordinators’
- Egypt denies that any payment or bribery scheme exists
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As they endure missiles, displacement, disease and starvation, some Gazans are raising money online to pay bribes to Egyptian officials at the Rafah border to get family members out to safety.
With the crossing essentially shut, few Palestinians have been able to leave Gaza since Oct. 7, when Hamas militants killed 1,200 people and kidnapped another 240 in southern Israel. That set off a war with Israel in which more than 23,000 Gazans have been killed, according to Hamas officials.