What is Good What is Evil? It's all for profit! Writer Tariq Hajjaj, in a report by the American ** "Mondois", recounted the journey of two Palestinian families fleeing the city of Rafah due to Israeli shelling and siege of the Gaza Strip, that is, the families of Jamila Ariva and Naima Laq.
Jamila Ariva, 66, collected the remaining small items for herself and her two surviving granddaughters and packed them in several bags, and after hearing that Israel was about to invade Rafah, she decided to return to the Nuserrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and leave her current shelter.
Since the beginning of the war, Jamila has lost 90 family members, all of whom are first- and second-degree relatives, most of whom died during Israeli airstrikes on their homes in Nuserat and Zuweida villages, long before residents of those areas fled to Rafah in early December.
Her greatest concern is her two little granddaughters, Jamila, like many others, displaced from one place to another, her displacement includes many stations, some uninhabitable places on the way, such as storage rooms and shops, while enduring hunger, thirst; Lack of access to health care.
But what she has been most worried about is her two young granddaughters, Yara and Laura, who lost their mother and sister after being targeted at their home in Nuserrat, and when their grandmother asks them to prepare to leave Rafah, the girls think the war is over and turn a blind eye to their move from hell to hell.
When Jamila packed her bags, she tried to call a car to take them to Nusserrat, and after many attempts, she got a truck driver's number because she had a lot of belongings and belongings, and when they first fled Nuserath, they brought solar panels, clothes, mattresses and pillows with them because they thought they would stay in Rafah for a long time. Jamila agreed with the truckers to take them to Nuserrat the next day and demanded to pay $500 for **, whereas before the war, such a distance would have cost only $70.
The night before leaving was tough for Jamila, as Israeli forces attacked several homes in Rafah, killing 150 Palestinians, making it one of the most terrifying nights for girls since the war began. Over the past few weeks, Israel has made repeated statements threatening to invade Rafah soon, terrorizing civilians there, and thousands of people have fled back to the north to cities and refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip.
The process of forced displacement from north to south was filmed for all to see and repeated throughout the war, but the most recent difference was that there was nowhere to escape as large swathes of the central Gaza Strip had been razed to the ground and turned into open grounds for IDF operations.
"We had a terrible night in Rafah before we decided to return to central Gaza, screaming my granddaughters when bombs fell near us, trapped under the rubble all day last October when their sister and mother were killed while they were sleeping," Jamila said.
Laura, Yara, and Judy's mother, Wad Abu Shuk, were killed along with Judy in the airstrike, and when their bodies were found, they were unable to pull Judy out of Wade's arms, so they wrapped them in the same shroud and buried them together.
Jamila said the decision to return to central Gaza was mainly due to the need to reassure Laura and Yara, who were afraid to remember the day their mother was taken away, but that did not make the camps in central Gaza safer, as the threat of invasion by the army also included these areas.
Jamila said: The coastal road from Rafah to Nuserrat is terrifying, although thousands of people walked on it, we walked under the watchful eye of Israeli soldiers not far away, and Israeli reconnaissance planes were above us. We passed Khan Younis on our way there, where we could hear gunshots and shells, and we thought we couldn't get to the other side.
Jamila likens the Nuserrat neighborhood to a ghost town: the residential area was not only bombed, but bulldozed and demolished, and the neighborhood where I lived became an empty field with only sand left, and neither the neighbor's house nor our family's house remained.
As far as the eye could see, there were ruined buildings everywhere, some still standing, only a few floors remained, some completely collapsed, some partially destroyed, like ghost towns, and at night, I felt no signs of human life. There is no supermarket, no bakery, and no indication that there might be people in this place.
Upon arrival in Nuserrat, they went to Jamila's sister's home, where she survived the bombing but had much worse access to food and water than Rafah, whose basic necessities were relatively easy to obtain. Jamila said her son spends most of his time walking around the area with a gallon of empty water tanks in search of water for his family of 13, but Jamila feels that fighting for necessities every day is better than waiting for death in Rafah.