Palestine, Gaza, Al -Rassid Street in Gaza -Gaza’s Al Racid Street, there are many stories between tens of thousands of people heading north.
In the crowd, there is a man walking with a white beard with his family with his family. With one hand, he has a blanket and some of the small property. On the other hand, he embraces an adult son with down syndrome.
RIFAAT JOUDA is not pretending to be tired. In the morning, he started traveling with an armpit in Gaza in southern Gaza. The family was expelled for 15 months during the war between Israel and Gaza.
After the ceasefire began on January 19, it has arrived in Gaza since Israel permitted the Palestinians in the southern Gaza area to move north on Monday.
However, it was a long walk, about 30 km (18.6 miles) along the coastal road, forced to take a rest every hour.
“The journey was tired and very difficult,” said Refart after finally arriving in Gaza. “Nevertheless, we decided to return.”
Rifaat is not convinced of his plan now when he returned home. His physical house in the northern part of Gaza has no longer exist. He explains that he was destroyed by Israel’s attack in October.
“They (contact information of Rifato in Gaza) say that the situation is very difficult, and there is no widespread destruction in water and service,” Refart says. “But what kind of differences do you create? We are shifting from difficult situations to even more difficult situations. Restoring what we can do. Released the spirit and updated our hope. “
Disqualification of regret
Before the war began 15 months ago, most of Gaza’s population lived north and focused on Gaza City, the largest urban area of the flying area. However, it is a place where Israel focuses on the attack, issues a forced evacuation order early in the war, and tells people to escape to the “safe zone” in the central and southern part of Gaza.
It was avoided by most of the population of about 2.3 million in the central and southern areas of Gaza under the corridor engraved from the central Gaza, which was called Netzalim.
Destruction was overwhelming in the northern part, but about 74 % of Gaza -shi buildings were damaged or destroyed by war, but the safe zone was not spoiled and the escaped area was destroyed. Gaza’s Dare El Rose was damaged or destroyed, but in southern Gaza, 55 % of Khan Eunis buildings and 48 % of Rafa buildings.
With the constant Israeli attack that killed at least 47,300 people during the war, the Palestinians were forced to escape from the place to the location, and made many people feel that they would never leave the Gaza City.
“The era of displacement was the most difficult and tired,” Refat says. “We can’t imagine to continue our lives as a person away from home.”
“Everyone who sees these crowds is well understood that no matter what happens, the forced displacement plan will not succeed,” he says. In 1948, his family was forcibly expelled during the creation of Israel while the Palestinian was called Nagba (catastrophe. “
Evacuation is a central motif for Palestinians. In 1948, Nakba was forced at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. Many of Gaza itself are refugees, and their families originally came from some towns and villages in Israel. And after the current experience during the Gaza War, I regret that many things have left the house to the north.
Returning to Shake Radwan in northern Gaza, 39 -year -old Sami Al Dabug explains that he had evacuated to several different areas before settled in central Gaza. Four fathers, who were walking on foot for hours, say they will never make the same mistakes again.
“No matter what happens, you won’t repeat the experience of displacement,” Al Dabug says.
It is the emotions shared by another man traveling to North Gaza and Radwan Al Juru.
“The displacement never told me to leave the house again,” he says.
Eight 45 -year -old father lives in Daia El Rose, but like Al Dubbug, he is from Shake Radwan.
“I can’t express the feeling of coming back, especially because the conditions are the same between the north and south,” he says.
I will come back without a family
The conversation on Al Racid Street is in a fleet -the people walking here are moving for hours and trying to track their families. More than the year of war and evacuation.
However, the details have revealed the loss that Gaza’s Palestinians had to endure.
52 -year -old Khaled iBrahim comes from Khan Younis and heads to Beit Lahiya, north of Gaza.
His family -he has four children -there is no home to return. He plans to set up a tent instead.
But he lost the closest to him than the house. Ibrahim’s wife, granddaughter and his brothers were killed in June last year by bombing near Khan Eunis tents.
“Our life is difficult. We have lost everything in every way,” says Ibrahim.
NADA JAHJOUH, another returnee, also lost his family. One of her sons was killed during a large return march in Gaza -Before the war in 2018. Another was killed during Israel’s attack in May. She has one son and grandchild now.
“We are both physically and mentally exhausted,” Jajoe says. “I feel very sad to come back without my son. My joy is incomplete.”
