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00:00 At the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, these families with international passports are
00:05 desperate to get out of Gaza and reach safety.
00:08 But for now it`s closed.
00:10 Egypt says airstrikes by Israel near the crossing make it too dangerous to open and truckloads
00:15 of humanitarian aid remain backed up on the Egyptian side.
00:19 (In Arabic)
00:20 "I made a deal with the German Foreign Ministry to go out.
00:24 They told me to go out from 12 to 5.
00:27 Unfortunately, we found out that everything is closed.
00:30 Why do they laugh at the world and say this and that?
00:33 At least help people to go out.
00:35 We are not forced to go out from any place, we just want to go out."
00:39 "We came here to visit our families.
00:41 We are two months old.
00:42 The war started.
00:43 They lost us.
00:44 We have no money, no water, no food, no water, no water, no phone, no internet, nothing."
00:50 (In Arabic)
00:51 "After seeing the situation in Gaza, I was in despair.
00:54 The houses were being destroyed, people were dying.
00:57 Thank God, we got out of it safely.
00:59 I traveled and went to Amman.
01:01 I hope no one will harm our families, our homes, our clothes, our things.
01:05 Don't take our furniture and our furniture.
01:07 But everything is still...
01:08 There is no value in a person.
01:10 A person is a person.
01:12 A person is a person.
01:14 A person is a person.
01:20 If he becomes Muslim, he will become Muslim.
01:22 That's it."
01:23 As the humanitarian situation worsens in Gaza, Egypt is coming under more and more pressure
01:28 to open the crossing.
01:30 But Cairo says it already hosts 9 million refugees and it can't let in large numbers
01:35 of Palestinians.
01:41 Like every Saturday in Tel Aviv for the past 39 weeks, political activists have come together
01:46 to protest the government in front of the Israeli Defense Ministry.
01:49 But for the first Sabbat, the Jewish day of rest since Hamas' attack a week ago,
01:54 they have come to support the families of hostages and demand their immediate release.
01:59 "This is my daughter, Liri Elbad.
02:02 She was beaten up in her pajamas every morning to Gaza.
02:08 And I want her back now.
02:10 She was in the military.
02:12 She was in the army base.
02:14 She's 18 years old.
02:16 She don't want to fight.
02:18 I believe also in Gaza, they don't want to fight.
02:21 Nobody want to fight.
02:22 Everybody just want to live."
02:24 Avishai's wife and two children were abducted in their home near the border with Gaza.
02:30 He's not heard from them since.
02:32 "There is a reason that it has been done.
02:37 Somebody or something is trying to tell us something.
02:42 And what I want to believe is trying to tell us peace, not war.
02:47 We're all humans.
02:48 Nobody wants dead children."
02:51 "The fact that they're dehumanizing all the Gazans and all the Palestinians
02:58 is actually at the end, it will be against Israelis.
03:03 To be against Hamas does not mean that we have to kill one child in Gaza."
03:09 At least 150 hostages were abducted by Hamas last week,
03:13 and the militant group claims that more than 20 of them have since been killed
03:17 in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
03:20 "There's more than a lot of emotions here from the families who are demanding
03:24 the release of their relatives who are taken hostage.
03:27 But everyone we've spoken to are also demanding for the politics
03:31 which they say have contributed to what's happened to stop.
03:35 I'm Valerie Goria, I'm telling you the Euronews."
03:38 Polls are voting in what has been touted as its most important election in decades.
03:46 "Polish nationals went to the poll today.
03:51 They will decide whether they will elect the conservative,
03:53 low-injustice party government for the third time
03:56 or give the majority to the more liberal opposition coalition."
04:01 European participants, aid to Ukraine and abortion rights are some of the issues
04:05 that have deeply polarized Polish citizens who hope for a bright future for their children.
04:10 "What's important is that I want a better Poland than it has been so far.
04:15 I want my children to live in a free, democratic and smiling country.
04:20 I want people not to look at themselves as wolves
04:23 because they have different political views.
04:26 I think these are the most important elections and we all have to go to these elections."
04:31 Pre-election polls suggest that the ruling law on justice will win,
04:37 but it could lose the majority, forcing them to form a coalition with extreme right parties
04:42 if they wish to form a government.
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