As the war in Gaza grinds on, more and more desperate Palestinians are resorting to paying bribes to leave the territory. Some are crowdsourcing thousands of dollars to pay a network of Egyptian agencies that promise to coordinate their departure. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.
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