Al-Rashid Street, Gaza City, Palestine- There are many stories from tens of thousands of people who walk along the Al-Rashid Street of Gaza.
In the crowd, there is a man who walks on a white beard with his family. On the other hand, he has a blanket and several poor possessions. On the other hand, he holds an adult son with down syndrome.
Rifaat Jouda doesn’t pretend to be tired. In the morning he started his trip in the Alawasi of Cannes, in the southern part of the country, and his family was kicked out for 15 months during the Israeli Gaza War.
The goal was to arrive at Gaza City after the truce on January 19 allowed Israel to travel north of Monday on Monday.
However, it is a long walk of about 30 km (18.6 miles) along the coastal road. RifAat’s family had to rest every hour.
Rifaat told Al Jazeera, “The trip was very tired and very difficult. “Nevertheless, we decided to come back.”
RIFAAT is no longer convinced of his plans when he returns home. His physical house in the northern part of the way does not exist anymore. He explains that he was destroyed by the October Israeli attack.
RifAAT says, “They (Gaza City’s contact of Rifaat) is very difficult to have no water, no service and widespread situations. “But what is the difference? We are moving to more difficult situations in difficult situations. We will rebuild what we can. But returning behind (the return journey) has raised our spirit and renewed hope. ”
Displacement
Before the war began 15 months ago, the majority of the Gaza population lived north and centered on Gaza City, the largest urban area of Enclave. But it also focused on the attack and ordered an evacuation order at the beginning of the war.
As a result, about 2.3 million people in GAZA moved in the central and southern regions, leading to the corridor carved from the central gaza called Netzarim.
About 74 % of the Gaza City buildings were damaged or destroyed in the war, but safe areas were spared, and the area where people ran away was damaged or destroyed by 50 % of the building in the center, and in southern Gaza It was 55 %of Younis buildings and 48 %of Rafah’s buildings.
The constant Israeli attack, which killed at least 47,300 people during the war, forced the Palestinians to run away from the place, and many people felt that they should not leave Gaza City and the north for the first time.
“The era of displacement was the hardest and most tired. “We can’t imagine our lives as displaced people far from home.”
“Anyone who sees this crowd understands that the plan for forced displacement cannot be successful. In 1948, the Palestinians were forced to be driven out with the creation of Israel and called Nakba or” Disaster. ” It was.
Displacement is a key topic for Palestinians. In 1948, when Nax was forced at home, at least 750,000 Palestinians were forced at home. Many people of the go themselves are refugees, and their family originally came from parts of Israel, villages and villages. So, in particular, I regretted that many people left home in the north after the experience of the current Gaza War.
The 39-year-old Sami Al-Dabbag, who returns to Sheikh Radwan in the northern part of the Gaza, has been moved to several regions before settling in the center of Gaza. Four fathers said they would never make the same mistake again as they walked for hours.
Al-Dabbagh said, “We will not repeat the displacement experience no matter what happens.
Radwan Al-AJOUL, a feeling shared by another man traveling to the northern part.
“The displacement taught us not to leave the house again.”
The 45-year-old father, who is 8 years old, lives in Deir El-Balah, but like Al-Dabbagh, there is also Sheikh Radwan.
“I can’t explain the feeling of coming back. Especially because the conditions between the north and the south are not different,” he said.
Returned without a family
Conversation in Al-Rashid Street is running away. The people walking here have been carrying a small number of belongings that have been able to track their families, help weak people, and hold them later. One year war and displacement.
But the shared details reveal the losses that the Palestinians of the Gaza had to endure.
Khaled ivrahim at the age of 52 is from Khan Younis and is heading to Beit Lahiya, north of Gaza City.
His family -he has four children -no home to return. He plans to install a tent instead.
But more than home, he lost the closest people. Ibrahim’s wife, granddaughter, and two brothers were bombed in June in Khan Younis near the tent.
“Our lives are difficult. We have lost everything in every way, ”Ibrahim says.
Another returner, Nada Jahjouh, also lost his family. One of her sons was killed in March of Gaza before the 2018 war. The other died in May during the Israeli attack. She now has a son and a grandson. She is carrying around when she walks.
Jahjouh said, “We are tired physically and mentally. “It’s very sad to come back without a son. My joy is incomplete. ”
