Netanyahu’s plan to deprive and government in Gaza will not perish | Israel-Palestinian conflict

From October 2023 to January 2025. Benjamin Netanyahu managed to throw out about 1.9 million Palestinians – almost the entire Gaza population. He is certainly proud. The Israeli Prime Minister can now descend into the Guinness Book of Records as a man who unanimously displaced the most people in the smallest territory.

I’m, I, I’m one of those 1.9 million. I was displaced twice: the first time at the beginning of the genocidal war, then again a year later.

Many Palestinian families have been displaced several times, some 10 times or more.

She was a clear strategy of Netanyahu to share us. The north was cut off from the south. “North” are forcibly expelled south. Then the “Southerners” and others displaced were forced to move to the center.

But that was not enough for him. Israeli Prime Minister approved a large campaign to delete the living space via Gaza’s belt, especially north and south. He also ordered to block the humanitarian aid to smooth us.

According to the Office of the United Nations for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, 92 percent of the homes in the gauze zone or about 436,000 buildings were destroyed or damaged as a result of Israeli aggression. According to the Human Rights Center Al Mezan, the Israeli army did not stop demolishing homes in Rafah throughout the trial.

According to the World Food Program, more than 2 million people have completely depended on food from January, and hundreds of thousands are facing “catastrophic levels of food uncertainty.”

Netanyahu has now ordered all humanitarian aid to be interrupted again and plans to once again forcibly expel Palestine from the north to the south.

His goal is clear: to separate the communities, to separate us and weaken us, to turn us against each other through extreme deprivation. But his strategy has failed in the last 16 months and she will succeed again.

On the eve of the genocidal war, people from Gaza showed a huge solidarity with each other. Whoever had a home that stood would open it for the shelter of displaced, including their families, friends, neighbors and even foreigners. Who would have some food would also share.

When we were under the siege in our neighborhood, Sheikh Radwan, in December 2023, we threw bottles of water through the windows to our neighbor and his daughter to make sure they had something to drink. We also provided food to other people who need it throwing it over the wall that separate our home from other homes.

During our second displacement, my father’s friend opened his home for us in the south, and we stayed there for four months.

On January 15, when the trial was announced, the residents of Gaza won against Netanyahu and his strategy of “division and rule”. Four days later, some of the displaced from Rafah managed to return.

Then on January 27, a “big return” came. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians headed back to the north.

For most displaced, “return” meant discovering homelessness. People walked on foot to long distances just to find their houses damaged or destroyed. The word we currently use to describe destroyed homes in Gaza is a “biscuit” – a home broken flat like a biscuit.

The homeless returnees had several options: to go to schools to turn into shelters, throw a tent in open spaces, or besides the ruins of their homes, or try to repair any standing walls into living space.

The families suffer from heavy rain, strong wind and cold. Many, as they cleaned, repaired or searched the ruins to find their belongings, find the bodies of loved ones and dug them to bury them.

But even in the sharp reality of homelessness, Palestinians continue to find solidarity.

People share what little ones have from food, water and even space in overcrowded tents. Neighbors work together to repair the broken walls and roofs. Some with half -damaged houses offer shelters to those who need it. Volunteers run campaigns for food and clothing distribution in schools, shelters and tent camps.

Some young people gather daily to cook in municipal cuisine, ensuring that no one remains hungry. People provide emotional support through the WhatsApp group and mental health meetings. At night, families gather to share stories and comfort each other to reduce loneliness.

The men of our neighborhood have made a schedule to help each other make shelters in damaged houses. They helped us to set up tarpes and provide them with columns to the ground and repair the walls in our damaged home. We helped others providing electricity to power equipment through our barely functioned solar panel.

“Home” is now what most people in Gaza want. It should be a warm place of sweet memories that you can escape when the world becomes too much to handle. It should not be a tent, a school or a destroyed house.

But the Palestinians were here before. Three quarters of the Gaza population are refugees or descendants of refugees who lost their homes in Nakba. My own ancestors were expelled from their homes in the city of Al-Majdal.

Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders like him do not seem to understand that Gaza is not only a place for us, but also our home.

However, many times Israel interrupts help and attacks, destroying homes and displacing people, we will renew, not magic, but with our own solidarity, resistance and world support.

The unity transferred from generation to generation has built a community that refuses to delete. This will help to get Gaza again.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s and do not reflect the editorial position of Al Jazeere.