Displaced multiple times, Palestinians wonder how long they can escape the bombs and bullets in the besieged enclave.
Israel's military has called for the evacuation of Palestinians from eastern Rafah, ahead of a long-threatened ground invasion of the southern Gaza city. / Photo: Reuters
and threatening through the radio to evacuate to so-called safe zones in southern Gaza, including the Al Mwasi area in Khan Younis and Deir al Balah. Before the latest Israeli evacuation order, Rafah was home to more than 1.3 million people, most of them displaced from other parts of Gaza, which has been reduced to aClose to 35,000 Palestinians – most of them women and children – have been killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7, the day the Zionist Israeli state’s invincibility was shattered by Hamas in an unprecedented operation.
Since Monday, thousands of people have been arriving in the"safe" zones in central Gaza and Deir al Balah. However, these places haven’t been spared by Israel, as the Al-Zwayda area and Salah Al-Deen Street, north and east of Deir al Balah, have faced heavy bombardment. Many among those who fled Rafah say that they arrived in the Israel-designated ‘safe zones’ only to find them packed with tents of people displaced from other areas.
Displaced multiple times in the past seven months, Abu Khdair has helplessly watched his boy suffer from malnutrition due to a lack of food. He himself has lost about 20 kgs, unable to afford the costly food in the besieged enclave.“Being displaced all over again and again breaks my heart. Places are too overcrowded, so finding a place or a tent is cumbersome,” he tells“People have to understand that tents are uninhabitable. They’re too hot in the day hours and too cold in the night.
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