Tel Aviv Tribune Net correspondents
Gaza“We want to return to our homes in the north, and we reject displacement plans,” this is what the displaced people in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip agree upon after they were repeatedly forced to flee from one area to another since the outbreak of the Israeli war following the Al-Aqsa flood attack on October 7 of the year. the past.
In separate conversations with Tel Aviv Tribune Net, the displaced people from Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip reject any plans to displace them, despite the intensification of pressure on them as the occupation begins to intimidate and expel residents from areas and neighborhoods east of the city of Rafah, in preparation for launching a ground military operation, which may develop into a comprehensive invasion similar to what I witnessed. Other cities, the latest of which is Khan Yunis.
One question is frequently asked by the displaced: “Where do we want to go?” (Where do we go?) They have been exhausted by repeated displacement several times since the outbreak of war, and they say that the occupation is pursuing them to every area they seek refuge in.
The occupation warned the residents of eastern Rafah, estimated at about 150,000 people, of immediate displacement towards what it called the “expanded humanitarian zone” in the Al-Mawasi area on the sea coast. However, the displaced are not safe from what they describe as Israel’s claims regarding safe areas, based on the experiences of being pursued and targeted in these areas. Regions and others.
An atmosphere of fear and confusion prevails over the city of Rafah, following Israeli displacement orders. The city witnessed a movement of exodus from east to west, in scenes with which Palestinians recall the catastrophe of their fathers and grandfathers in the occupation of Palestine in 1948, the 76th anniversary of which falls in mid-May.
The Gazans refuse to repeat the Nakba, showing patience and steadfastness in clinging to their lands, despite the brutality of the bloody and destructive war and the processes of displacement and displacement.