It is unclear whether Mr. Trump will try to use $ 1.3 billion that Egypt should get annually as a lever to try to force him to accept more Palestinian refugees.
The fear of expulsion from Gaza is deeply rooted among the Palestinians, who reject him as a repetition of what they call a nakba – or a “disaster” in Arabic – the massive displacement of Palestinians from their homes in 1948 during the war that surrounded Israel’s creation.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza try return With his homes as the interruption of the fire between Hamas and Israel enters the second week. It’s just another pause in the fight Between the two of them from October 7, 2023, when Hamas led an attack on Israel in which more than 1,200 Israelis were killed. Since then, the Israeli army killed at least 46,000 people PalestiniansAccording to health officials in Gaza, who does not make a difference between fighters and civilians. He also destroyed thousands of homes and buildings in Gaza and killed many Hamas leaders.
Most of the two million Palestinians in Gaza had to leave their homes at least once. And admittedly The help of the last days has been increasedThe humanitarian situation is still difficult, with water, food and medication near the end, and there are several hospitals left.
Noura Al-Awad, 29, and her family were some of those who remained in their homes in the city of Gaza for the last 15 months, persevere in air attacks, land invasions and conditions almost hungry because they were determined to not give their country to Israel, she said in a phone interview on Sunday.
She promised to outlive Mr. Trump’s plans.
“For a year and three months, we have been attacked from all sides, starved and humiliated, we have experienced killing, death and destruction, but we did not head south,” she said. “No way” to leave, she said.
They contributed to the report Andrés R. MartínezWho,, Iyad AbuheweilWho,, Isabel Kershner and Rania Khaled.
