The children are back from school.
Ilane, 7 years old, Iyas, 4 years old, and their little sister, 3 years old, Naya watch together a video of “Pingu”, an old animated series featuring a penguin living with his family in an igloo in Antarctica.
The main character and his peers express themselves using funny noises and onomatopoeia.
A language surprisingly more understandable than the situation experienced by these three children and their parents, Ibrahim and Shaden Awad.
Living in a house in Rheu, near Rennes, this family of Palestinians from Gaza has been under threat of expulsion since they were notified in May 2023 of an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF).
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“We live in the anguish of having to leave Rennes while our families remaining there are being massacred by bombs,” laments Ibrahim, the 36-year-old father.
This former French teacher in Gaza arrived in the Breton capital 8 years ago on a student visa in order to follow a master's degree in French as a foreign language (FLE).
His wife Shaden, an English teacher, joined him in 2018, also to study, and after having braved many dangers.
His eldest daughter who accompanied him is still traumatized by the incessant bombings and is receiving psychological support.
“At the beginning, we did not intend to settle in France but we decided to stay to spare our children a life of violence and war,” explains Ibrahim.
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