The people of Gaza hope to stop the war and return to their homes in 2024
“Enough with the displacement, we want to return to our homes, even if they are destroyed.” In Gaza, wishes seem modest in a sector whose people feel that they have no right to celebrate the dawn of a new year while they live under fire, destruction, and siege. They see their children dying before their eyes, without being able to To protect them, they lose their homes without finding any shelter except dilapidated tents that do not protect them from the cold of winter.
The people of Gaza welcome the year 2024 with hearts suspended between wishes for peace and an immediate end to the pain of war, while the last moments of the previous year resonated with the echo of the Israeli war machine, as military aircraft continued to play melodies of death in the skies of the Strip, recording new chapters of pain and devastation.
A displaced Palestinian family fleeing Israeli raids in Rafah (dpa)
Tanks infiltrate positions in the center of the Strip, as if they were dancing on the strings of constant tension, amidst the anticipation of the Gazans, who deep within them carry earnest wishes to stop the war and return to the homes from which they were displaced.
The wishes of the people of Gaza rise to the sky, accompanied by prayers for this war and suffering to stop and for the transition to a more stable life. Palestinians raise their voices with passion and sincerity, declaring their desire for peace and the return of life to normal, as every destroyed building is seen as a story of a long wait that does not know when it will end.
The displaced person, Abu Hassan Al-Khalidi, says: “I hope that peace will come and this problem will end and we will return to our homes. Enough of this. Enough of death and enough of blood. Your little son is not congratulated. If your wife gives birth, you are not congratulated on her. We are in a life that we have never experienced before at all. We hope.” “The year 2024 will be a new birth.”
* Displacement is a “slow death”
Naji Hamad, a citizen who was displaced from north to south Gaza, accompanied by his family, raises his palms to the sky, praying to God that the beginning of the new year will witness an end to the Israeli war on Gaza.
Hamad told the Arab World News Agency: “I lost many of my family members. Now I hope to return with the remaining children and grandchildren to Shujaiya in northern Gaza. We are tired of living here in these torn tents. Here we are not living at all, but rather going through a season.” Fresh from slow death.
For Hamad, his wishes are no different from those of all the displaced Palestinians who left northern Gaza for its south.
He added: “Everyone here hopes that the war will end and people will return to their homes, which they know are destroyed, and yet they want to return to them.”
Displaced Palestinians in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, amid continuing Israeli bombing (dpa)
Ayat Al-Najjar has the same concern, and wants to return to Jabalia, even if she pitches a tent there and lives there. Al-Najjar says: “Here we do not find anything to eat. Here we do not live at all, and none of the necessities for human living are available. I want to return to our destroyed house in Jabalia, and I will set up a tent there and live in it better than in this deadly asylum.”
Meanwhile, Muhammad Hamouda, who was displaced to Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, says that he is forced to beg to buy some of the necessary needs that keep his children alive. He added: “We have reached the point of starvation. We do not want to die in these tents. We want to return and die on top of the rubble of our homes that were destroyed in Gaza City.”
Statistics published by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics indicated that more than 22,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 7, 98 percent of whom were in the Gaza Strip, including 40 percent children and 30 percent women.
Central Agency statistics indicate the displacement of 1.9 million people inside the Gaza Strip, away from their places of residence, out of 2.3 million people who constitute the total number of the Strip’s population.
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2024-01-01 13:42:18
