‘A long, long road ahead’: Gaza reconstructs zero

By walking or car, the trek house has started.

For displaced ghazans for 15 months, distance is not far away-Jaja Strip is a small space-but today’s journey is the beginning of a strict uncertain future for this war-destructive place.

Lumping is difficult to understand the scale of human challenge.

Ghazan journalist Gada al-Kurd said, “There are no facilities, no services, no electricity, no water, no infrastructure.”

“We have to re -establish again from the beginning, from zero.”

Immediate needs – food and shelter – begin to be addressed.

“Help is flowing at the levels that we have not seen since the introduction of the struggle,” said Sam Gulab from UnRWA, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA.

“So we are capable of completing bare minimum in terms of food, water, blankets, hygiene items. But beyond this, it is a long, long road.”

Finding shelter in the apocalypse ruins of Gaza is going to be the first of many huge, long -term challenges.

During the initial weeks of the war, 700,000 people escaped from Gaza city and surrounding areas. An unknown number, perhaps as many as 400,000, stayed.

Some areas left behind were destroyed, while others have survived.

The United Nations estimates that about 70% of the Gaza strip buildings have been damaged or destroyed since October 2023, with the worst destruction in the north.

Jabalia, the house of the 200,000 war, almost half of which lived in one of the oldest and largest refugee camps in Gaza, virtually destroyed.

It is clear that for many people, the days of living in a tent are over.

Gaza’s Hamas-Interested Government Media Office has made an immediate appeal for 135,000 tents and caravan.

The United Nations says it is now capable of bringing 20,000 tents which have been stuck on the border since August, as well as a large amount of Tarpalin and mattresses. But it says that it is going to struggle to meet the sudden demand for shelter.

“It’s not just that there are many manufactured tents for help operations anywhere in the world,” Mr. Rose said.

Those who have managed to stay in the north during the war are afraid that the pressure for the housing, already intense, the return of citizens and returning to the homes left a year ago will deteriorate.

Asma Tyah says, “There is a big problem because people lived in relatives or friends’ homes, which are in the south,” whose family had to run away from Jabalia, but never left the north.

“Now they have to vacate these houses and give them back to their owners. So a new type of displacement has started.”

Asma says that four families are already living in their building with three more expectations. She says that the lack of space and privacy has already created stress.

Return of refugees is other knock-on effect.

“I went to the market today to buy frozen fish,” says Asma. “But already vendors are raising prices.”

The pressure on rare water and power supply is also expected to increase already.

But for all widely anticipated difficulties, people who return, sometimes in widely optimistic terms, speak of their relief and expectation.

A woman told the BBC, “We are very happy to return to the north, where we can get rest in the end.”

“We were tolerating the south, leaving the pain behind and the beat was returning to the dignity of Hanoun.”

According to the recent accounts of the Beat Hanoun – in the northeast corner of the Gaza Strip, the city is unfamiliar with the border with Israel.

What does Donald Trump suggest that people should go temporarily or permanently, Egypt or Jordan?

Egyptians and Jordan officials were in a hurry to condemn the suggestion. The two countries are afraid of the sudden social and security implications of the influx of painful refugees.

“Jordan is for Jordan and Palestine is for Palestinians,” said Jordan Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi. His country is already home to 2.4 million registered Palestinian refugees.

Among the far-flung cabinet colleagues of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump’s suggestion received an enthusiastic reception.

Finance Minister Bezelle Smotrich, who is in favor of the disposal of Israeli Annexation and Gaza Strip, called it a “a great idea”.

Last year, speaking at a conference by supporters, he “talked about creating a situation where Gaza’s population will reduce its current size in two years”.

Until Gaza is rehabilitated quickly and Ghazan is given a glimpse of a better future, Smotrich may have its own way.

“I think for the first few months, they will see what will happen,” journalist says Gada al-Kurd. “If they lose everything and the reconstruction process is delayed, I think people will not live in Gaza.”

About 150,000 people have already left since the war began in October 2023.

Gada says that she expects from other people who can follow it, seek futures in the Arabian world, while the poorest and weakest people are left behind.

“I agree with Trump that people deserve a better life,” she says. “But why not in Gaza?”