Bittersweet Homecoming for Palestine returning to the city of Gaza | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
Pale Palestinians who carry what they can head to the northern Gaza, after Israel allowed their passage in accordance with the permanent interruption of the fire.
Israel allowed hundreds of thousands displaced Palestinians to start returning in their homes in the north this week. Although the crowds walked somewhat to Tuesday, thousands of men, women and children were still on their way, they are completely aware that they are waiting for a little, but the ruins.
“I’m happy to go home,” said Saif al-Din Qazaat, who returned to the northern Gaza, but had to sleep in a tent next to the ruins of his house.
“I kept a fire all night near the kids to warm them … (they) slept peacefully despite the cold, but we don’t have enough blankets,” said the 41-year-old.
Mona Abu Aathra was able to travel from Central Gaza to the City of Gaza, although she had not yet evaluated the full extent of the influence of the war on her home.
Her hometown, Beit Hanoon, was among areas that hit the most severely hit months of Israeli military operation, which continued until the trial this month.
“We returned to the city of Gaza with nothing and no drinking water. Most streets are still blocked by ruins of destroyed homes,” said the 20-year-old.
Despite the devastation, Abu Aathra expressed relief that he reunited with his family.
“The first night is together again, me, my mother and my father. Last night we gathered with my three brothers who were here in the city of Gaza.”
More than 375,000 Palestinians they moved to the north gauze Since Israel opened its way to return on Monday morning, the United Nations said on Tuesday. This represents more than a third of millions of people who fled the north in the first weeks of the war at the end of 2023.
Increasing basic stocks to people is a focus. Although help help They have increased since the beginning of the ceasefire began, the need remains irresistible.
The World Food Program has announced that he has distributed more food in the first four days of tribute than in the whole month of December.
But the Office of the United Nations for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said that those who return to the north will need other basic supplies, such as drinking water, shelter equipment and hygiene kits.
