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About a thousand Palestinians are trapped outside Gaza Strip When war between Israel and Hamas They returned to their homes during a seven-day truce, ignoring the prospect of
About a thousand Palestinians are trapped outside Gaza Strip When war between Israel and Hamas They returned to their homes during a seven-day truce, ignoring the prospect of more explosions, a Palestinian border guard said on Thursday.
At the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, yellow taxis with suitcases and cardboard boxes stacked on their roofs and trunks so full of luggage that they could not be closed were carrying Palestinians back to their devastated homeland.
One of them was Abu Nader, who said he traveled to Turkey on October 4 to accompany one of his daughters who was starting to study there. The war began three days later when Hamas militants attacked southern Israel.
Nader flew to Egypt on October 24 but was unable to return to Gaza because the Rafah border crossing was closed. He was trapped in Egypt until the armistice.
He said the Israeli strike destroyed his home in the Al-Nasser neighborhood of Gaza City and that he had lost family members, but he was desperate to return home to be with his other children and the rest of his family.
No one abandons his children and his country, even if he loses his home. All of Palestine is my home, not just Gaza or the house of al-Nasser, my home is the whole nation.
Egypt announced through the Palestinian embassy in Cairo on November 23, the day before the truce took effect, that Palestinians who wished to do so would be allowed, but not forced, to return to Gaza.
The border guard who spoke to Reuters Today reported that the transitions began on November 24 and have continued since then.
When the Palestinians return, they will find a Gaza very different from the one they left behind. Much of the northern half of the strip, including Gaza City, has been reduced to a desolate lunar landscape after seven weeks of Israeli bombing, while in the south hundreds of thousands of displaced people are taking refuge in tents and schools.
Hospitals have collapsed, food, water and fuel are scarce and disease is spreading in what the United Nations has called a “humanitarian catastrophe.”
Gallery made from photos Reuters.
Nevertheless, Intisar Barakat He says he still wants to go home.
You cannot leave your country, your children, your home, your husband. God willing, everyone will return and peace will remain
The truce was initially agreed to last for four days, but was then extended several times, each time by 24 to 48 hours. On Thursday, mediators were still trying to extend it.
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(according to information from Reuters)
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