‘My heart is divided into two parts’: Women are returning homes in North Gaza. Israel-Felistine Conflict News
Dir al -Balah, Gaza Strip – Inshira Darabeh has only one idea in his mind when she is preparing to leave her house of her in-laws near Dir Al-Bala and prepare to go to her house in Gaza city: Finding the body of her daughter Marram and burying her in a respectable manner. ,
She says, “I am not going back to find my house, I just want to find her grave and name her on samadhi.” 55 -year -old Inshira Ishira to reach her house. The middle will walk more than 10 km (6 mi). She thinks that it will take at least three hours.
Inshira is overwhelmed by mixed feelings of fear, pain and relief, because she eventually leaves Gaza from the brutal war of Israel where she took refuge since last year, in which more than 46,000 Palestinians died Went and many thousands of people went missing. Considered dead for and under debris. Most of the dead are women and children.
According to the terms of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which came into force last Sunday, the seventh day of the ceasefire – on Saturday this week – the internal displaced Palestinians allowed to return to their homes in north without inspecting by Israeli soldiers Will go , Which has been in a deadly military siege since October 2024.
In November 2023, when the Israeli ground entered the strip surrounded after the first month of the air bombing, Gaza was divided into two parts. This military partition – is known as the Netzerim Corridor – spreads in Gaza from east to west, which cuts Jabalia, Bet Hanoon and Bet Lahia towns with Khan Yunis and Rafa in the south.
Cut completely
Since the ground attack, no one has been able to return to the north. According to the UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, 65,000 to 75,000 people are believed to have remained in the Northern Gaza governor before the military operations and siege intensified – less than 20 percent of the war -erected population.
People will be allowed to return on foot through Al-Rashid Street, a coastal road to the west of Gaza city that connects the south of Gaza to the north. However, passing of vehicles has been a matter of controversy. According to a report by the United States website Exios, Hamas refused to agree on the appointment of Israeli posts with a major road, Netzerim Corridor to the south of Gaza city.
The report stated that the agreement was for American private security contractors to work as a part of a multinational association in Gaza, which was a vehicle post set up under a ceasefire agreement with the support of its American, Egypt and Qatari brokers. The “care, management and safety” of K. used to do. The main advice with al-din street.
After the continuous Israeli bombing for 15 months, 90 percent of the population of Gaza has been interrupted and more than 80 percent of the buildings are ruined, the survivors like Inshirah are not ready to give up.
He remembers the wretched Sunday of the end of October 2023, when he received a call at 4 am, as if it was yesterday.
Inshira told Al Jazeera, “In the first few weeks of the war, I and my husband were forced to leave their home in the north.” “We took our biggest granddaughter with us, but my three daughters and her husband are left behind.”
On October 27, the communication remained completely cut off for more than 36 hours.
“I did not even know that day that the marm was martyred, when my eldest daughter called me as soon as communication was restored.”
The fray was 35 years old. At the end of October, his four -month -old daughter was killed in the same Israeli air strike on Gaza city, soon after Marm’s life was lost.
‘All I want is to bury my tent on the debris of my house.’
The story of Inshirah is similar to thousands of women who have experienced the innocent pain of losing children, husbands, father and brothers, taking care of the survivors.
25 -year -old Olfat Abdarboh had three children. Now she has only two children: a daughter, Alma, 6, and a child, Mohammed, 18 months.
Olafat told Al Jazira, “My four-year-old child died in my arms in Dir al-Balah, where we were displaced a year ago.” On October 27, 2023, when Israel carried out an aerial attack on the mosque, Olfat’s father took him for Friday prayers. She says, “My father lost his legs.”
She took her son home from Al-Aksa Shaheed Hospital, but had internal bleeding and died the next day.
Olfat’s husband first stayed at his house in Bet Lahia north of Jabalia in North Gaza, so he took a difficult decision to send his body back to his uncles so that her husband could bury her near her house. Now, after all, she can go there herself – and is planning to travel on Sunday.
She says, “I have not seen my child’s grave.” “My heart is divided into two parts: half is with my martyr child and the remains of my house, and the other half with my two children Who has been deprived of his father for months.
Olfat says, “All I want to do is to bury my tent on the rubble of my house and unite my family again.”
‘Torture to stay in tents’
Although not all people are celebrating due to long distance from dead children or husbands, women like Zulfa Abushanab feel trapped and worried.
Two daughters, 5-year-old Salma and 10-year-old Sara’s 28-year-old mother were displaced at the end of October 2023, North-West of Gaza city and then displaced in Dir Al-Bala in Madhya Gaza . , Where she is living in a friend’s apartment with other refugees. It has only less equipped bedrooms with mattresses on the floor – one for men and the other for women and children.
Zulfa told Al Jazeera, “I and my two daughters live in a small room with two other women and four of her children, while my husband is in a separate room. We have been away from each other for more than a year; We cannot sit together or eat food.
Although she has still heard from the people in the north that an Israeli tank was shot at her house, she says that she is counting those hours until her small family returns to her destroyed house. And once again resides as a normal family.
Hayam Khalf’s face lines reflect the trauma of many of the disposals he sose.
His four children – Ahmed, 12, Dima, 8, Saad, 6, and the youngest, Sila, 5 – Hayam, 33, were forced to cross Gaza seven times – Khan Younis, Rafa, Nusit and finally now now In a tent in Dir al -Bala – since the onset of the war in October 2023.
His old face is a proof of living in temporary tents for more than a year, living with elements and struggling to feed his family.
“I can’t describe the torture of living in a tent filled with sand, insects and diseases in a tent filled with sand, insects and diseases.” He soon managed to get out of there so that his mother, who was a cancer patient, could take immediate medical treatment in Egypt.
She says, “If necessary, I will sleep on cold, hard tiles and will not take anything back that will remind me of this cursed tent.”
‘I will bury my son with my hands’
For Jamat Valley – known as Um Mohammed – 62 -year -old mother of eight children, no matter where she travels, will never disappear the marks of this war.
Um Mohammad, originally from the Jabalia refugee camp in the north, was displaced in October 2023 with her husband and seven daughters at Dir-Al-Balah. His 25 -year -old only son Mohammad decided to stay in Jabalia to protect his house.
Um Mohammed told Al Jazeera, “He came to meet us during a temporary ceasefire from 24 to 30 November, 2023, but then insisted on returning to the north despite the warning that he was risking his life.”
She now admits that her son is dead and till now she is waiting in the hope that her body will come back there in the hope that her body will come back there.
“A few days after his departure, a friend, a free prisoner, who had returned from the Netzerim Outpost, told me that Mohammad and four other youths were shot at the outpost, and his body was released on the road. . “
Since then Um Mohammed says, it has been a year since – one year working on how to find out what his son is left. She is confident that if she finds her body, she will be able to identify her.
She says, “I will find him.” “A part of his leg was cut off when he was injured at the beginning of the war. I will go back on the same path; I will find him and bury him with my hands.
“For me, returning to northern Gaza only means finding the body of Mohammed.”
This article has been published in collaboration with Agab
