Deir el -Balah, Gaza Strip, Palestine – Listening to the radio a few days ago outside the tent, he must now call at home, Mohammed Al-Nabahin, 77, heard of an Israeli plan to establish a “voluntary” migration office for the Palestinians in Gaza.
The report gave details of Al-Nabahin. An agency planned by the Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, and approved by the cabinet. Its objective was to organize and secure the exit of the Palestinians “wishing to migrate” to third countries. The Palestinians returning to their villages of origin in historic Palestine have not been mentioned.
The plan follows similar suggestions from US President Donald Trump earlier this year.
“The idea is completely out of the question,” said Mohammed categorically.
“If they want to move us voluntarily, then let them allow us to return to our land in occupied Palestine, from which they expelled us!” He said to Tel Aviv Tribune. “Why should we leave our country?”
Mohammed has already known to be forced to get out of his house.
When the genocidal war of Israel against Gaza began 17 months ago, Mohammed was forced to flee and leave his home in the Bureij of the center of Gaza.
He always thinks that living in a tent in Gaza is better than leaving.
“All my children agree with me. They are all against the departure of Gaza, whatever happens,” said Mohammed.
While waiting for death
In the opposite tent, Salwa Al-Masri, 47, prepares food for his family, attracting wood fire to continue.
She shares Mohammed ‘disdain for the idea of leaving Gaza.
His difficulties in war are the same as so many others in Gaza. Forced to move, she is barely able to find enough food to feed her family since Israel has decided to block the entrance to Gaza.
She must count on the search for food for edible plants like Mallow and spinach, which become wild nearby. Hunger, as well as the bombs of Israel, left it “to wait for death”.
But for Salwa, it is this very suffering which means that she cannot bear the idea of leaving.
“Have we endured all of this to leave?” It will never happen, ”she said.
“We have lost everything. I lost all my house in Beit Hanoun (in the north of Gaza), and I chose to live the rest of my life as a person in the south, enduring the tests and hunger, but I will not leave, “she added.
Salwa thinks that Israel uses bombings and famine to put people pressure on, waiting for despair to be built before offering “output options”.
“Where would we go, wandering in foreign lands?” Why is each option available, except for us to stay? ” She added.
Israel recently killed the eight children of Salwa’s sister in a strike on Beit Hanoun.
“Do you think my sister, after such a loss, would choose to leave? Of course not,” she said.
Desperate to leave
The attempts of Israel to bring the Palestinians to leave Gaza were denounced by human rights organizations as an ethnically attempted cleaning of the territory.
The Palestinians already have a long experience of being moved to the hands of Israel, from 1948, while at least 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleaned from their houses and villages by Zionist militias to make way for the statement of the State of Israel.
Ethnic cleaning has been mentioned several times during the War of Israel against Gaza, in different forms – many Israelis see it as an objective of war, in the hope of prolonging cleaning to include occupied West Bank.
The War of Israel against Gaza killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, and without a view, Israel bets that thousands of Palestinians will be desperate to leave, even if they are unable to return.
And in Gaza, while many older Palestinians are determined to stay, many young generations see no future in the enclave.
In a street corner, Mahmoud al -ii, 25, repairs kick tires in a small makeshift workshop.
When he was told about the migration agency, which he had not heard of, Mahmoud replied with a broad smile: “Where should I register?”
“I want to leave Gaza as soon as possible,” he told Tel Aviv Tribune. “We are exhausted by wars – no human being can bear what we are going through here. There does not seem to be an end to this war and its tragedies. Every minute that we live here is like dying. “
Mahmoud said that he did not care where he is going and that he does not care that Israel would facilitate his exit.
He added that he was not alone – many of his friends and peers share his desire to leave Gaza permanently.
“We all see that we have no future here. No life, no work, no education – only destruction, wars and blood effusions,” said the young man, who helps support his 10 -year -old family, including his parents.
“Just open level passages for migration and see how many people, especially young people, will leave Gaza immediately.”
