Tired Palestinians Gaza arrived in the city without any house, killed family. Israel-Felistine Conflict News

Al-Rashid Street, Gaza City, Palestine- There are several stories among thousands of people running with Gaza’s al-Rashid Street, which are moving north.

There is a white bearded man with determination with his family in the crowd. In one hand, he carries a blanket and some little property. In the second, he catches his adult son, who has Down syndrome.

Refot Joda does not pretend that he is not tired. He began a morning journey at Southern Gaza in Al-Mavasi, Khan Younis, where his family was displaced for 15 months during the Israeli war on Gaza.

Its purpose was to reach Gaza City, a journey is possible at the end as Israel allowed the Palestinians to travel north on Monday in the Southern Gaza Strip after the ceasefire began on 19 January.

But this is a hiking travel – some 30 kilometers (18.6 mi) with a coastal road – and the family of refatat was forced to stop every hour.

“The journey is over and is very difficult,” Rifat told Al Jazeera, after all reaching Gaza city. “Despite this, we were firm to return.”

Refight is no longer sure about his plan that he has returned home. His physical house in North Gaza city is no longer present – he says it was destroyed in an Israeli attack in October.

“They (contact with Rifat in Gaza City) say that the situation is very difficult, with no water, no service, and there is no comprehensive destruction,” says refortal. “But what difference does it make? We are becoming more difficult than a difficult situation. We will rebuild what we can do. But (traveling to return) has taken back our souls and renewed our hope. ,

Regreting displacement

Before the war began 15 months ago, most of Gaza’s population lived north, centered around the city of Gaza, the largest urban area of ​​Enclave. But it is also that Israel has focused on its attacks, and issued forcible withdrawal orders at the beginning of the war, asked people to flee for “safe areas” in Central and Southern Gaza.

Due to this, about 2.3 million populations of Gaza were displaced in the middle and southern regions that are under a corridor outside the central Gaza, which Israel called Netzrim.

While the destruction in the north was heavy – about 74 percent of the buildings of Gaza city have been damaged or destroyed in the war – it is believed that safe areas were not spared, and areas where people fled, are also destroyed. It was – 50 percent of the buildings had buildings in the middle. Gaza’s dir El-Bala was damaged or destroyed, while in Southern Gaza, the Khan Unis had 55 percent of the buildings and 48 percent of the buildings in Rafa.

Constant Israeli attacks – which killed at least 47,300 throughout the war – forced Palestinians to flee from place to place and many people felt that they should never leave Gaza City and North in the first place. .

“The days of displacement were the most difficult and most exhausted,” refers. “We cannot imagine our lives to continue our lives as displaced people away from our homes.”

“Whoever sees these crowds is well understood that no plan for forced displacement will be successful, no matter what it is,” he says, before he suggests a city in the north of Gaza – now A city in Israel – a city can also come – still may occur – out of which their family was forcibly displaced, which Palestinians nose nose, or “destruction”, with the creation of Israel.

Dislocation is a central motif for Palestinians – at least 750,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes due to the 1948 nose. Many people in Gaza are refugees, their families are basically part of the towns and villages now. And so, especially after the current Gaza War experience, there are many regrets that ever left their home in the north.

The 39-year-old Sami Al-Dabbag, who returned to Sheikh Redwan in North Gaza, states that he was displaced in many different regions before settling in Central Gaza. Father-four, walking for hours, says that he will never make such a mistake again.

“We will never repeat the displacement experience, no matter what happens,” says Al-Dabbag.

It is a feeling shared by another person traveling to North Gaza, Redwan al-Ajoul.

“Displacement has taught us not to leave our homes again,” they say, as he takes his belongings on his shoulder.

The eight-year-old 45-year-old father is living in Dir al-Balah, but like Al-Dababag, he is also from Sheikh Radwan.

“The feeling of returning is indescribable, especially when the situations are not different between the north and the south,” they say.

Returning without family members

The conversations on Al-Rashid Street are fleeting-people who are moving here for hours, are trying to keep an eye on their family members, helping weaker people compared to those, and some items After being moved, they are able to hold a grip after more than one year of war and displacement.

But shared details suggest that Palestinians have suffered in Gaza.

Khalid Ibrahim, 52, came from Khan Yunis and Gaza is near Lahia to the north of the city.

His family – they have four children – there is no house to return. He is planning to install a tent instead.

But more than a house, he has lost those people close to them; Ibrahim’s wife, granddaughter, and her two brothers were killed in a bombing near their tent at Khan Unis in the last June.

“Our life is difficult. We have lost everything in every way, ”Ibrahim says.

Another returns, Nada Jahjouh has also lost the family. Prior to the war in 2018, one of his sons died during Gaza’s great march. Another was killed in May during an Israeli attack. She now has a son and a grandson – she walks.

“We are tired, physically and mentally,” Jahju says. “I feel very sad without my sons. My pleasure is incomplete. ,