Palestinians return home to Gaza, but without their loved ones | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict

City of Gaza, Palestine – Aya Hassoun is a thin with a pale face. Her eyes are red and her voice is full of sadness.

She had her husband, Abdullah and two children, four -year -old Hamz and two -year -old Raghad. But as she returned with hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians to northern Gaza after months displacement In the south, she traveled alone.

Abdullah, Hamza and Raghad were killed in the Israeli attack on August 9, while preparing for a day trip to the beach, attempting to escape from the daily horrors of the war.

Aya described a strong explosion, smoke, and then her children who lay down dead on the ground with blood pouring from their heads.

Abdullah, who had previously gone to buy the cake ingredients and some beach snacks, was also dead.

“I have been trying to be strong from that time. I’m trying to endure separation,” Aya said. “But everything around me reminds me of them.”

Her journey home to the neighborhood of AS-SAFTAWI in the city of Gaza last week, as part of Participation Agreement Between Israel and Hamas, he had many of these painful reminders. Abdullah desperately wanted to bring back home. He would already single out the clothes he would wear for a trip. She took her husband’s clothes with her on a long walk north, as well as those of her children. And she walked alone.

“My sadness dishes in my heart,” Aya said. “Sometimes I cried. I looked at the families walking together, my mother, father and their children. As for me, I was alone without any of them.”

Aya arrived at her family home and reunited with her mother, but she is not sure how long the trip took. Her mind was preoccupied with the pain of losses still persecuted.

Shortly after, she decided to go and see everything left of her house, which was destroyed during the war. As she searched the ruins of any of their old things they would keep as memories, she found herself imagining how to seek her lost loved ones and finally find them.

“What can I do? This is my destiny. “

Obedient son

So many those who return to the north of Gaza had to go through the same pain as Aya, returning home, but without their loved ones.

Israeli war against Gaza has killed more than 61,700 Palestiniansincluding more than 17,400 children.

The son of Jawaher Shabeera, Walid, was one of the killed. At the beginning of the war, they fled the city of Gaza together, moving to Rafah, in the far south of comics.

Walid was Jawaher’s oldest son. He was 26 years old and “obedient and attached”. It was this love for his mother and his family that led Walid to leave the family tent in Rafah at the end of Ramadan in April last year, trying to find a job to alleviate the conditions such as hunger through which the family lived through.

“He found work with one of his friends near Khan Younis,” Jawaher said. “He promised to come back with the sideline to cook.”

But Walid didn’t come back. Jawaher was said to have shot him in Khan Younis.

The moon went strongly to Jawaher’s heart. She says she lost her speech ability. Instead, Walida painted in her head, imagining his return.

Jawaher returned to the north with the rest of her family. But before she left, she would make the last stop to visit Walid’s grave.

“I cried over Walid,” Jawaher said. “How would I get back without him? How will I meet my daughters and grandchildren in the city of Gazi without Walid, such a young man, my companion. “