The Abu Jarad family lost the stability and comfort of their northern Gaza home when Israel launched its campaign in retaliation for Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. They did exactly as the Israelis ordered in the devastating weeks and months of war that followed. They obeyed evacuation calls. They moved where the military told them to. They fled seven times.
Members of the Abu Jarad family pose for a photo in their tent camp, where they now live after being displaced over five times since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, in Muwasi, Gaza Strip , Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. FILE - Palestinians flee from the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza after an Israeli ground and air offensive on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. FILE - Palestinians flee to the southern Gaza Strip on Salah al-Din Street in Bureij, Gaza Strip , Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023.
“The area would always smell nice,” he said. “People would say we have perfume because of how beautiful the flowers are.”The Abu Jarads knew that the Israeli response would be swift and that their house, only about 2 kilometers from the border fence with Israel, would be on the front line. As the explosions got closer, shrapnel pierced water tanks at Majida’s parents’ home. Windows shattered as the family huddled inside.
The day after they arrived, a strike smashed into a house a few hundred meters away, killing a prominent doctor and some two dozen members of his family, many of them children. The bathrooms were the worst part, Majida said. Only a few toilets served thousands of people. Getting a shower was a miracle, she said. People went weeks unable to bathe. Skin diseases ran rampant.
“In the winter, it was hell, water drenched us,” Majida said. “We slept on the ground, nothing under us, and no covers.”
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