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  • en these complicated procedures, we understand that Syrians are not welcome in Egypt anymore."
  • Three weeks later, the new military government that took over imposed new, stricter rules for Syrian refugees trying to cross the border. They now needed a visa, as well as national security approval to be in Egypt.
  • "I wish I had been killed in Syria rather than lead this humiliating life in Egypt," says Amer Feras, who came to Cairo after he lost his wife and youngest daughter in the jet attack that Assad's forces launched this January on Homs city, 161 kilometers north of Damascus.
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  • The building's Egyptian owner, Tarek Marzouk, runs a dry cleaning business and has offered a free room for each helpless family coming in from Syria.
  • My girls can't join government schools and I don't have the money to put them in private schools," he says. "We lost our properties, home, dignity and our right to live as human beings or at least as war refugees."
  • "Now I'm begging in front of mosques in Egypt to support my family. I have to carry my passport to prove my identity, and sometimes I earn sympathy and assistance from the Egyptians," she adds.
  • Gad also thinks they were better off under Morsi. "Under the Muslim Brotherhood, we got better treatment, free education and healthcare," she says. "Even when Morsi decided to cut off relations with the Assad regime, we were getting proper and supportive governmental treatment.
  • "families and individuals started to think of illegal immigration to Europe, even if it meant drowning to death."
  • "The situation of Syrian refugees in Egypt has reached a critical stage since the revolution of June 30," says Abdel Karim Rehawi, head of the Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights, referring to the Egyptian protests that led to the overthrow of Morsi.
  • the military regime has tightened screws on Syrians after individuals were accused of being in collusion with Islamist groups and working against the state.
  • "There is some aid from a few Egyptian families and volunteers, but no official support from the Egyptian state," he says.
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