CairoA fake charity emptied one refugee’s mobile wallet of $1,200.
Palestinians in Egypt cannot get residency or legal work, and aid has thinned since the ceasefire.
Anonymous forms collect passport photos, callers then ask for a wallet code, and victims without residency cannot file police reports.
Mohammed Odeh Mahmoud, who paid $140 an adult for permits, has been unable to renew them.
How each outlet framed it
- Mondoweiss leans critical
- documents a fake-charity scheme preying on Gaza refugees in Egypt, using a $140-per-adult residency fee and a specific aid-fraud call as evidence
Sources: Mondoweiss