Ismail .. Ghazzawi tells a smuggling trip to Algeria

Fatima Hamdi - Algeria

With a rough, cracked hand, Ismael holds his Palestinian passport with glittering eyes, not hope but tears. He tells the burning of his heart after his four sons. The young man tries to shorten the story of his departure from Azza and the way of death he took to reach Algeria.

"Name Ismail, the level of doctorate suffering, career looking for life, hobby swimming against the tide of despair, marital status married and father of four dreams, nationality Palestinian homeland researcher, address no place.

With these words, the Palestinian young man shortens his autobiography as he writes it on the back of his identity papers. He says that "his identity and his identity on a sacred land were looted and raped in the sight of everyone and under the shouts of everyone.

The Palestinian youth refuses to talk about dreams. He says: "We have been deprived of reality, let alone dreams." He despaired of conquering men. Is struggling in the difficult life in Gaza and how it has become easy in other countries, a difficult dream in the sector.

Dream Portal
Ismail decided to leave the Gaza Strip, went out of his house at night, deliberately did not bid farewell to his sons. He says his wife refuses to leave, while he insists on emigrating to provide a decent life for her and their children, even if the move is an adventure.

Ismail left on October 23 with a number of friends to Egypt, after the crossing was opened almost daily for months, and then headed towards Mauritania.

He smiles with hope as he talks about this state, which provided the Palestinian with the suffering of the movement between the consulates to obtain the visa, it is enough that you carry the Palestinian passport to obtain the visa immediately at Nouakchott International Airport.

Access to Mauritania was not the goal of Ismail and his friends, but Algeria as a transit area for some of them towards Europe, and for some others stable.

Palestinian youths continued to leave the Gaza Strip with the Mauritanian smuggler known to the Gazans. The sheikh, who assured them via the Fiber that he would ensure access to Algerian territory from Mauritania through Mali,

Caravan of the dead
Ismail and his friends were greeted at the Nouakchott airport, where he was contacted before they decided to leave Gaza. They stayed at his home for two consecutive days in the Mauritanian capital.

The smuggling of Palestinian youth from Mauritania to Algeria via Mali has cost about $ 1,000. Ismail says it is a high cost, especially because the dangers of the road were much greater than they expected, according to the guarantees that Ould Cheikh was trying to give.

Ismail says that the fear began with the Azan of the evening prayers when the boy entered to tell them that it was time to leave, where they faced death more than once, only hear the crow's voice and some of the wind of fear, especially at night where they were waiting for danger at any moment.

Crossroads of the Palestinians
Ismail describes the moment of his arrival and his companions to Algerian territory, saying he felt safe in the end. After a six-day trek through the empty desert, Ismael was surprised by the wisdom of the boy's birth, despite its lack of indications.

The Palestinian youths were separated after they arrived in the Al-Munea area, where they were "arrested" by the Algerian gendarmerie, and confirmed their identity, to release them with a paper allowing them to move around the states of Algeria.

Today, Ismail is at the end of his first month in the country of footprint, the term used by the United Nations to determine the destination of the asylum seeker. The latter Geneva law imposes on the State in which the irregular migrant is impregnated.

Travels between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Algiers and the National League for Human Rights, where he was accompanied by Al-Jazeera Net in his meeting with lawyer and lawyer Abdul Ghani Badi, who gave him the necessary directions for asylum as soon as possible.

Mass grave
"I fought against poverty, disease, war and loss, I fought life, and I still fight for my children to live a better life than I have ever lived," Ismail smiles as he narrates his diary in the Gaza Strip.

The young man sees it as "just too much weight on the planet." He uses the phrase, laughing with a laugh of defeat, saying he did not live a single day after thirty years of writing his name in the birth register in Khan Younis.

"I can not take my breath and I remember the moments of the attack on us with gas and we are under those tunnels," recalls Ismail, who spent six years working in tunnels in Gaza. He sees that he was imprisoned under the ground to provide a daily living, describing the details of his day as he puts his hand on his neck as if suffocating. "He said.

Ismail's basic mission under the tunnels was to smuggle food. He says that every time the tunnel came down he would bid farewell to the skies of Gaza, believing that it was his last day, wondering how he was still alive even though he had been in a coma three times during his tunnel work.

The young man does not fear death because he tries to provoke it every time. Was confused movements, avoiding the sight of the passerby sitting in the courtyard of the shrine of the martyr in Algiers.

Isma'il Zefira longs to draw a cloud in the air, due to the heat of his inflamed body that came across the cold air of Algeria, on the door of his swollen lips torn by fatigue. He tells about life in Gaza, saying it is like anything except life.

Do not suggest some of the wrinkles on the face of the young Ghazzawi in the spring of his age and gray hair that began to invade his hair and his trembling voice, all details resemble the Sheikh as he walks down life, sees that the main goal of his life today is to triumph peacefully for his past.

With four lives
The Algerian legend says that the cat has seven lives, as he dies only after the seventh confrontation with the death. Ismail sees that he is no different from the cat, except that the latter is struggling to win the death .. Is "Ismail" no.

He says that he did not escape a day of death, but was constantly "harassed" by, survived three wars, is the most fierce war. Survived the deadly F-16 missiles, picked up the flying shrapnel from the glass of his house and made it an exhibit in his home.

Tries to hide his tears as he describes the scene of the sound of the bombers falling in the building next to him in Rafah, where he killed 23 people from the house of Zo'rob, one of the most terrible massacres in the wars in Gaza.

Describes the reaction of his daughter, who did not exceed five years in the war of 2014, says that she entered hysterical case of laughter.

He is still surprised at the sight of his daughter, whom he described as losing her "small" mind for days after the bombardment. He says that he no longer has anything to fear and that she, now 11 years old, has become indifferent to everything that can happen, no matter how suspicious.

In the 2008 war, Isma'il lost three of his family, carrying the body of his cousin and a friend who was raised in his house from under the rubble. He was torn apart in the eight-day war in 2012. In Ramadan 2015 he fasted on the day he realized that the war in Gaza was a "Zionist" .

bottleneck
The Palestinian does not forget his case no matter how far he goes. Justifying his decision to leave Gaza for Algeria, Ismail is still lost in judgment on himself. He is still waiting for the final decision of his national conscience to separate the case.

Between the acquittal due to the escape from the inhuman situation imposed on the population of the Strip for more than a decade, and the sentence of life imprisonment with hard labor of conscience, on the charge of escaping from a wounded country in need of his children, Ismail stumbles waiting to speak in the case.

The Palestinian young man tells his suffering waiting for his role to get out of the Gaza Strip through the closed Rafah crossing, which is open only to patients every three to four months, with tens of thousands of exit applications accepting 400 cases.

Isma'il al-Maabar is like the narrow oppression. He says that the humanitarian tragedies that were written at the end of that oppression are more terrible than the bombing. "There are many forms of death in Gaza, including the physical, the easiest and the most difficult, the dead.

Ismail says that getting out of the Rafah crossing is like getting out of the neck of a blocked bottle. "Al-Ghazzawi goes out of the Strip to see life once, and finds that all the means are only for returning to the Strip, because everyone does not want to receive us."