‘Smiles have returned to our faces’: Palestinians in Gaza return home after forced displacement

Описание: “It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. Even if the house is destroyed, even if we have to return to a tent, what matters is my homeland, the air of my homeland.”

Palestinians in Gaza return to their homes after nine months of forced displacement from southern Gaza during Israel’s war on the enclave.
One displaced Palestinian from Rafah said: “Even if a thousand wars come, we will remain as we are. We will rebuild it with the strength of our people, wherever they may be.”

Palestinians congratulated one another upon their safe return with one Rafah resident saying that “smiles have returned to our faces despite the pain we’ve been through”.

However, others expressed how shocked they were with the destruction that has occurred. One man said he feels “destruction and ruin, corpses, children in pieces, children as young as a year old, torn into three parts,” before stating that “even the Nazis didn’t commit such massacres”.


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