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Al -Jazeera Net Correspondents
Gaza- At the entrance to her tent on the ruins of her destructive house in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, the elderly Abu Saada lives again the same scene engraved in her memory when she put her feet in the same camp 77 years ago, after she was forced to leave with her families from her original Palestinian town occupied by Israel.
In the same tent, a larger pain that the elderly woman had been borne that the Zionist gangs had been accompanied by her family when she was a ten -year -old girl, where she traveled long distances despite her smallness at the time to escape fire and artillery shells.
Despite the wrinkles of time on her face, the memory of the elderly, dear, maintains the details of what happened to the Palestinian people during the Nakba, and how it moved from the village of Kartia to the town of Hamama and then al -Majdal, to Gaza City.
Kartia, northeast of Gaza, is located one kilometer northwest of Faluja, and is one of 530 Palestinian villages destroyed by the Zionist gangs in 1948, which led to the displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians, including 200,000 who resorted to the Gaza Strip.
Time line
From one village to another, the Abu Saada family’s displacement stations ended in the Al -Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza, before they moved to the west of the city and then took the Jabalia refugee camp as a place for their residence, after the Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian Refugees “UNRWA” prepared Khayamah who believed that it was temporary until the return.
The life of the child, dear at that time, began to rely on the aid provided by UNRWA, and today she is returning at the age of 87, waiting for aid in the destroyed camp itself, while the occupation forces prevented her from her.
And a burdened tongue, the Palestinian elderly woman talks about what she lived since her childhood, starting with the Nakba in all its details, the tripartite aggression in 1956, and then the occupation of the Gaza Strip in 1967, and through the first and second Palestinian uprisings, and the Israeli wars on the Strip, to the war of extermination these days.
She did not find the most severe of this war for the eight -year -old decades – as Aziza says – and she did not see her life like the density of shells and missiles falling on Gaza, and she did not pass before her atrocity like continuous Israeli crimes in Gaza.
Although she lived harsh scenes in a young age while she was fleeing with her relatives with a little their needs in the hope of returning, but the loss of dear to her grandson in this war, and her having to displace from one place to another was more severe.
Aziza refers to the development of life inside Jabalia camp, one of the five refugee camps inside the Gaza Strip, which has an area of 1.4 km and is inhabited by more than 100,000 refugees, and remember when the living turned from the tent to homes that damaged sandstones and covered by tiles, then expanded to homes with concrete stones that are ceiled by panels of aspost, and then rebuilding them with concrete layers.
“War is our guidance”
Since the beginning of the Israeli aggression, Aziza refused to respond to the threats of the occupation army to flee from the northern Gaza Strip to its south, and she remained steadfast at her home inside the alleys of the camp, which was broken 3 times during the war, until last November was forced to leave the corridor set by the occupation soldiers to flee towards Gaza City.
She did not intercede for her an old age in front of the heavily armed soldiers, who were stationed near the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, and asked her to walk for a single distance without facilities that help her, forcing her to crawl on her knees, so she could reach a safe place.
The Palestinian elderly woman says that for the first time in her life she watches large numbers of Israeli tanks and bulldozers and the soldiers who aim their weapons towards each moving, while the voices of the planes are high in the sky of the area.
The scary scenes, as described by the need, were dear to her since the occupation of Palestine, due to the massive destruction left by the occupation army in Jabalia camp, and the bodies that were scattered in the streets without anyone being able to retrieve them.
A few days after the departure of Aziza, north of Gaza, she was subjected to a heart attack that almost killed her life, in light of the inability of hospitals to provide health services, and after that it is no longer able to move.
“The war is our guidance,” Aziza says, as the deadly Israeli war on the Gaza Strip brought it back to the tent, after warplanes destroyed their home during the invasion of the northern Gaza Strip in October 2024.
The Palestinian elderly woman asserts that her tent that she lived in her childhood after the catastrophe was not worse than her current tent in which she lives these days, as she did not find what she eats after the occupation forces prevented the introduction of food aid to more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and she says, “After the Nakba, UNRWA has spent a little food, but now we do not find anyone standing with us in front of Israel.”