BBC Diplomatic correspondent
On foot or by car he started his way home.
For Gazana displaced in 15 months, the distance is not a far-tray of gauze is a small place-today’s journey is just the beginning of a desperate uncertain future for this war.
It is difficult to understand the extent of the continuation of the humanitarian challenge.
“No facilities, no services, no electricity, no water, no water, no infrastructure,” said journalist Gazan Ghad El-Kurd, as she prepared herself to go her own way in the north of Deir El-Balah, where she had removed for months.
“We have to re -establish ourselves from the beginning, from scratch.”
Immediate needs – food and shelter – they start dealing with.
“The help of levels we have not seen from the beginning of the conflict,” I said from the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency, UNRWA.
“So, we are able to fill the bare minimums in terms of food, water, blankets, hygiene items. But beyond that, this is a long, long path.”
Finding a shelter in apocalyptic gauze ruins will be the first of many huge, long -term challenges.
As many as 700,000 people escaped from the City of Gaza and the surrounding areas during the early weeks of the war. An unknown number, maybe as many as 400,000, was left.
Some areas that were left behind, while others had just survived.
The UN estimates that about 70% of the gauze buildings have been damaged or destroyed since October 2023, with most of the worst destruction in the north.
Jabaliya, a home of a pre -war population of 200,000, about half of which lived in one of the oldest and largest refugee gauze campsites, was almost destroyed.
Clearly, for many people, the days of life in the tent are far from the end.
Gaza’s government media office of HAMAS presented an emergency complaint for 135,000 tents and caravans.
The UN says that it is now able to bring 20,000 tents stuck on the border since August, along with large quantities of tarpaulins and mattresses. But he says he will fight to meet a sudden request for shelter.
“There is simply no so many tents produced to help anywhere in the world,” Mr. Rose said.
People who managed to stay in the north during the war fears that the pressure for accommodation, already acute, will worse as civilians return and watch them move to houses abandoned more than a year ago.
“There is a huge problem because people have been in houses of relatives or friends in the south,” says Asma Tayeh, whose family had to escape Jabaliya, but never left north.
“Now they have to empty these houses and bring them back to their owners. So a new type of displacement began.”
Asmaa says four families already live in her building with three more expected. Lack of space and privacy, he says, have already led to tension.
The return of refugees has other effects.
“Today I went to the market to buy frozen fish for the first time,” Asmah says. “But the sellers are already increasing prices.”
The pressure on already scarce water and electricity supply will be expected to increase.
But for all the widely expected difficulties, those who come back speeches, sometimes in a widely optimistic sense, their relief and a sense of expectation.
“We are overjoyed that we have returned to the north, where we can finally find comfort,” said one BBC woman.
“Leaving behind the suffering we suffered in the south and returned to Beit Hanoun’s dignity.”
According to the recent Beit Hanoun reports – in the far northeast corner of Gaza’s belt, near the border with Israel – the city is unrecognizable.
What about Donald Trump’s proposal for people, temporarily or permanently, move to Egypt or Jordan?
Egyptian and Jordan officials quickly condemned the proposal. Both countries are afraid of social and safety implications of a sudden appeal to traumatized refugees.
“Jordan is for Jordance, and Palestine is for Palestinians,” Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said. His country has already been home to 2.4 million registered Palestinian refugees.
Among Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a fellow farm, the proposal of President Trump received a enthusiastic welcome.
The Minister of Finance Bezalel Districh, which favors Israeli annexation and settlement of Gaza’s belt, called it a “great idea”.
Last year, speaking at a conference of supporters, he spoke about the creation of “a situation where the population would be reduced to half of the current size in two years.”
If the gauze is not quickly suffered and gazani see each other in a better future, the magazine may have its way.
“I think the first few months will see what happens,” says journalist Ghad El-Kurd. “If they lost everything and the renovation process is late, I don’t think people will stay in Gaza.”
About 150,000 people have already left since the war began in October 2023.
Ghada says he expects others to afford it, seeking the future in the Arab world or beyond, while the poorest and most vulnerable.
“I agree with Trump that people deserve a better life,” she says. “But why not in gauze?”
