Departure time is approaching. The government of Canada’s travel pages (voyage.gc.ca) tell us to ‘avoid unessential travel’ to Egypt, and absolutely ‘avoid all travel’ to Gaza. Is our travel unessential?
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After a messy and expensive rebooking due to Antoine being sick and being misdiagnosed for having pneumonia (was not true), we finally arrive a couple of days late in Cairo. Here is the story of our voyage in chronologically orders links to blog entries.
October 17 & 18: The story of our day at the pyramids, our travel to Rafah, and the crossing into Gaza: ‘We are in Gaza!’
October 18: Our arrival
October 19, second day in Gaza: ‘Khan Younis’
October 20, third day in Gaza:
‘At the University; and the Estelle‘
October 21, fourth day in Gaza:
‘Sister Power. Visiting the families of Palestinian prisoners‘
October 22, fifth day in Gaza:
October 23-27:
Eid al-adhar among missiles strikes
Maya and Hani, and their pharmacy
music 4 gaza 