Palestinians respond with anger, resignation on Trump’s gauze displacement plan | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
Deir el-Balah, a gauze bar, Palestine- Wasayef Abed woke up on Wednesday to murmur among his colleagues displaced Palestinians in Central Gaza Deir El-Balah.
The debate was focused on the President of the United States Donald Trump and his announcement that he would “take over” Gaza. In Trump’s comments, he gave as he stood next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – a man responsible for the Decision of Devastation of Gaza in the War of Israel – the US president even said Palestinians should be permanently moving from the enclave.
Some of his officials, including Secretary of State Marc Rubioa, suggested on Wednesday that each departure would be temporary, although Trump’s language was evoked by 19th century colonialism and a spectrum of ethnic cleansing.
The reaction of the 36-year-old Wasayef is one of the indifference.
“I didn’t pay a lot of attention,” she said as she ran into checking her tent soaked in rain.
“I don’t even own a mobile phone or any way to follow the news,” she added indifferent, and her tired face betrayed her exhaustion.
“What I know is that my mother and I will never leave Gaza, no matter what happened. All we wait now is a way to return to our destroyed home in the north.”
He sees Wasayef Trump’s statements as a form of pressure – both on the Palestinian people and on armed groups in Gaza, including Hamas.
“I can tell you that people will never accept forcibly displacing here,” she said. They can withstand the internal shift, but expel them from their country, as Trump suggests, they will never succeed. “
‘Will never happen’
Imad al-Qassas, a 60-year-old father of six, was displaced from East Deir El-Balah into her center, where he now lives in a tent after his home was destroyed.
His response to Trump’s statement was clear: “This is impossible.”
“No matter how much destruction, destruction and murder they endured during this war, it will never happen,” he added.
“Where would we go at all?” he asked. “Even if the border crossings and a voluntary migration were opened, I would never go, no matter how difficult my situation may be.”
He believes that regardless of the temptations of the relocation – whether the houses, fees or host countries are – the ultimate refuge of the person of their homeland.
“I lived in Sudan for four years and in Libya for six years in the 1990s. I was born in the United Arab Emirates. But in the end I got home, “he said firmly.” No matter what accidents are in Gaza, this is our homeland, and we keep it holy. “
“Life outside Gaza, even in normal circumstances, is not so easy for all people around the world. Licens for residence, renovation, documents – there is always a difference between refugees and residents,” he explained. “Imagine our situation: displaced, rejected and forced from Gaza. We would undoubtedly be humiliated and treated in the worst possible way.”
“I’d rather die where I stand. Even if they cut me into pieces, I won’t leave.”
Tears were poured down his name of his face as he questioned what the world wanted from the Palestinians in Gaza.
“We are educated and cultivated people. We have the right to live on our country and see it renewed. We have merchants, doctors, journalists, engineers – we have lives. Why are we forced to leave? “
Like many displaced Palestinians, he sees Trump’s remarks as part of the “wider effort to pressure the population”, especially in the midst of discussions about the exchanges of prisoners and the efforts to renovate.
“I’m ready to wait 100 years for renovation if I have to. I will never leave, no matter what. “
At the same time, I have still blamed the Hamas, Palestinian administration and neighboring countries that they failed to end the war at all costs.
“All of this was planned a long time ago. The US and Israel have been planning it for years. All parties were to turn off this plan from the beginning because people pay the price.”
‘We don’t care anymore’
Unlike the imad, Khaled Maqbel, 63, and his wife, Iman (52), did not show a reaction to the question of Trump’s statements.
“God willingness, he will take him away,” the 52-year-old Iman Maqbel murmured, turning his face.
“Since the two of my daughters and two of my grandchildren were killed in Israeli air strike during the war, I stopped taking care of anything,” she added, tears in her eyes.
Iman escaped from the neighborhood of AS-SAFTAWI in northern Gazi in Deir El-Balah with his husband, 63-year-old Khaled and their remaining children a year ago, enduring five times.
“We have no energy to process anything – Trump or his statements,” Khaled said. “Gaza people are drowning from sadness, illness and difficulty after the war. They don’t even have the ability to think about what’s next.”
The couple strongly rejected Trump’s displacement plan. “We already regret leaving the north, even though we were forced to weapons. Do they really think we will obey Trump now?”
Iman recalled that during the war, many displaced people around her were talking about leaving Gaza if they were given the opportunity. “But it was only from pure despair,” she said.
“Despite everything, people in Gaza still adhere to life on this earth, even while the whole world is fighting against us for reasons we cannot understand,” she adds.
“Even if they offered me the courts, millions and luxury homes, I wouldn’t leave Gaza – nor would my sons.”
Asked about the time of Trump’s statements, Khaled broke out in anger.
“Time? What time? We can’t wake up from this war! “He said.” People still pull the bodies of their loved ones from the ruins. They still clean their homes from debris, seeking any sign of life. “
“This world has lost all the sense of humanity.”
‘I’ll leave the first opportunity I get’
On the contrary, 23-year-old Mahmoud Abu Ouda, who in Deir El-Balah makes little coffee and tea, says he wants to leave the tape as soon as possible.
“In the end, Trump will force us from Gaza, just as people were forced from north to south during the war,” Mahmoud said.
“If the Rafah transition opens [with Egypt]A huge number of people will leave immediately. I’ll be the first to go. “
For Mahmoud, unbearable pressures of life in Gaza after the war make it unthinkable. “This is not life. There is no life here. After the war, we are left in this country there is nothing left that would keep us.”
Although Mahmoud wants to leave Gaza, he rejects the idea of being forced – but he also sees no alternative.
“We’re always forced,” he said. “We were forced to escape from the north to the south. We endured the war against our will. We endured bombings against our will. We never had a choice.”
“If departure is the solution to our problems, then let’s go,” he continued.
“If we prepare homes, jobs and real life for us, let’s leave and put the story of Gazi.”
Mahmoud told Al Jazeera that his views represent a significant part of the young Gaza young man who suffered immensely during the war.
“Our future is destroyed. I am responsible for six family members. I couldn’t have completed a university degree. I work for a mild salary all day. Our house was bombed. We were displaced.”
“Is that the life of a young man in the 20’s or the old man in his 90s?” he asked desperately.
“Gaza will never see peace. Gaza is dead,” he said, convinced that Trump is serious in his threats.
‘Psychological war’
Amir Taleb, Mahmoud’s friend, agreed that life in Gaza became unbearable after the war, but opposed to a forcible displacement or the idea of trading the right to stay in gauze for promises about renewal and a better life.
“Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric pushes many of us who once thought of going to go to change his mind-just to defy his plans,” said 24-year-old Amir with a sharp smile.
“No rational, a person who respects it would accept it. We are not obeyed by Trump or anyone else to manipulate how they want.”
Amir told Al Jazeera that he had left Gaza four years ago, immigrating to Belgium without intent to return.
“I couldn’t stay there for over a year, despite having friends and family there,” he admitted.
He returned to Gaza and opened a small clothing store.
“It is difficult to live in exile, and for us in Gaza, the return is never guaranteed. We have no privilege to come and leave so we can. That’s why many decide to stay despite everything, “Amir added.
“Arabic and Islamic countries must take an attitude against Trump’s schemes,” Amir said. “This is a psychological and moral war against us in every sense.”
