'I would have preferred not to leave, to have stayed at home and died there,' said a Palestine child.
"I would have preferred not to leave, to have stayed at home and died there," said a Palestine child.UN says "over one million people, almost half the total population of Gaza, have been displaced" with some 600,000 in the central and southern part of the enclave, which is home to 2.4 million people. / Photo: AP
Najjar said she left the north with nearly 90 members of her extended family who were forced to walk because they couldn't pay the 1,000-shekel fare demanded by a bus driver. The tents, which can hold hundreds of people, were set up by the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees on the western edge of Khan Yunis.Inside one of the tents is Umm Bahaa Abu Jarad, 37, who used to live in the northern town of Beit Lahiya in a building with"about 150 people who are now scattered between Rafah and Khan Yunis".
"We started to run, and we ran a long way until we found a truck carrying cattle," said Abu Jarad who is in her 40s, adding they"begged the driver to take us south" and paid him 400 shekels."We got here in a pitiful state."
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