Displaced Palestinians have nowhere to return to after their homes were destroyed

Описание: (26 Feb 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 24 February 2025
1. Various of thousands of tents
2. Various of Zoroub family sitting inside their tent
3. Various of Tahrir Zoroub feeding her baby
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tahrir Zoroub, displaced from Rafah:
"Life there is difficult. Rafah is completely destroyed so we’re not able to return. The house is destroyed. The situation is very difficult there. There is no life there."
5. Various of cat sitting near Tahrir who is preparing food for her family
6. Various of Tahrir cooking on fire
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ammar Zoroub, displaced from Rafah:
"The situation in Rafah is difficult and I couldn't return when the Jews withdrew from the Philadelphi Corridor because there is indiscriminate fire. I have children and I am concerned that the fire could hit them. We’re waiting to see what will be the situation during Ramadan. And of course, I had my house destroyed and I can't live there. There are no windows, no doors, as well as a water supply outage."
8. Various of Zoroub, daughters sleeping and sitting inside tent
9. Various of Zoroub's tent
10. Various barefoot children carry empty bowls to get food
11. Various of children standing next to their bowls
12. Various of children carrying empty bowls
13. Various of worker filling food for children
14. Various of children standing out of their family tent
15. Various of Manal Abed cleaning out her tent
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Manal Abed, displaced from Rafah:
"It’s true that there is a truce, but it changed nothing for us. It’s as if the war is still raging. When we returned to our home, we found our home completely destroyed. It was completely destroyed."
17. Various of barefoot child sitting with his family inside tent
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Manal Abed, displaced from Rafah:
"The Jews always attack by warplanes and kill and wound the people. That’s why we didn’t return. I was forced to remain in this difficult condition because I am concerned about my children. I am concerned they could be killed by the Jews. Here, you can find food to eat, but if we return to Rafah, will we find food and water? There is no house to protect us from cold or heat."
19. Various of Abed family gathering near fire
20. Various of children playing in sand

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rafah, Gaza Strip - 24 February 2025
21. Various aerials of destruction
STORYLINE:
While hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip returned to their mostly destroyed homes over the past six weeks of ceasefire, Manal Abed has remained in her temporary shelter.

The 50-year-old mother and her eight children were forced to flee their house in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah in May, when Israel’s military invaded the city.

When the ceasefire started on Jan. 19, Abed returned to find that her house was destroyed.

“It’s true that there is a truce, but it changed nothing for us,” she said from her tent in the Muwasi area, west of Khan Younis.

She said the Israeli military has carried out attacks in parts of Rafah, and she was too concerned about her family’s safety to return.

“The Jews always attack by warplanes and kill and wound the people,” she said.

Many other families are in the same situation.

“Rafah is completely destroyed so we’re not able to return,” said Tahrir Zughrab, a 40-year-old mother of six children.

“There is no life there.”

The latest war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and abducting around 250 people.









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