1 in 2 foreigners cross the Gaza Strip border in Rafah Photo: Hatem Ali / AP Photo Foreigners cross the Gaza Strip border in Rafah Photo: Hatem Ali / AP Photo
The State Department is working with 86 names that could leave the region in the coming days. The operation depends on negotiations with local authorities and other countries involved in the confrontation in the Middle East.
Among the families waiting for confirmation to leave the Gaza Strip is that of the Brazilian Mohammed Adwan. The businessman from Florianópolis has been in the region since February following the deaths of his mother and brother. Accompanied by his wife and two daughters, aged six and nine, he waits in the city of Rafah for the ticket to Egypt to be released.
2 of 2 Mohammed Adwan and his family Photo: Personal archive Mohammed Adwan and his family Photo: Personal archive
There will be changes to the repatriation
The federal government’s repatriation operation to save Brazilian families in Gaza will bring changes compared to the second list. The group is larger almost three times as many as the first group that arrived in Brazil on November 13 and requires more bus structures and teams to receive them after crossing Rafah.
In addition, the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) aircraft will fly towards Egypt only after the Egyptian authorities publish the list and confirm that the group will cross the border. As the first families waited to be released, the presidential plane remained in Rome for weeks and then in the Egyptian capital to complete the operation.
Then families perhaps they should go to Cairo and from there to Brazil. After crossing Rafah, the group has 72 hours to leave Egypt. Diplomatic teams are ready to receive them as soon as the list is published. Diplomats in the conflict region and sources from Itamaraty are reluctant to give a possible date for the withdrawal, but speak of “the next few days”. Lists appear daily