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Trapped: the Palestinians trying to get back into Gaza

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  The Rafah border, seen from the Egyptian side. It is one of two main crossings points for inhabitants of Gaza, located along the 12km-long border that divides the Gaza Strip from Egypt (Photo: Free Gaza movement)

By BIANCA CARRERA

CAIRO, TODAY, 07:25

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As war rages in and above Gaza, Aylol Abu Elwan continues to be trapped in the Egyptian city of El-Arish, as he waits to be finally able to cross the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip — and be reunited with his family.

He is one of the thousands of Gazans for whom the war erupted while they were outside the Israeli-occupied territory, and whose situation now gets more hopeless by the day.