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‘There is nothing that can hide a family’: Palestinians take advantage of the truce to rummage through the rubble of their homes

  • November 26, 2023
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After seven weeks termination Continued bombing of Gaza by Israel to achieve a truce, Tahani al-Najjar took advantage of the lull on Saturday to return to the ruins

After seven weeks termination Continued bombing of Gaza by Israel to achieve a truce, Tahani al-Najjar took advantage of the lull on Saturday to return to the ruins of his house, destroyed by Israeli airstrike killed seven members of his family and forced her to take refuge in a shelter.

More than 24 hours have passed since the four-day pause in fighting. thousands of Gaza residents make the same difficult journey from public shelters and temporary camps to find out what happened to their homes.

“There is nothing to shelter a family”

Where will we live? Where will we go? We try to collect pieces of wood to build a tent for shelter, but to no avail. There is nothing to shelter the family,” Najjar said, rummaging through the rubble and twisted metal of his home.

Najar, a 58-year-old mother of five from Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave, said The Israeli also demolished his house in two previous conflicts, in 2008 and 2014.

Wonderfully intact cups

He pulled out from the ruins, where a bicycle and dusty clothes lay under the rubble, several mugs that miraculously survived.

“We will rebuild again,” he said.

For many of the 2.3 million people living in the Gaza Strip, the pause in almost constant Israeli air and artillery attacks offered the first chance to move safely. take stock of the destruction and achieve access to assistance.

At open markets and aid depots, thousands of people lined up to receive some of the aid that began to flow in large quantities as part of the truce.

Israel launches bloodiest offensive in Gaza Strip

Since Hamas militants launched attacks on Israeli cities on October 7, killing 1,200 people, the response Israel carried out its bloodiest and most destructive offensive yet never visited the Gaza enclave.

Palestinian health authorities say the explosions More than 14 thousand people died in Israel, 40% of them girls and boysand razed rows of residential neighborhoods to the ground.

They claimed that Thousands more bodies may remain under the rubble, the number of deaths has not yet been recorded in official figures. (Reuters)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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