Palestinians reject Trump's proposal for gaza development
Palestinians reject Trump's proposal for gaza development
Life in northern Gaza is desperate - there is no water, no electricity and so many debris that there is hardly enough space to set up tents.
Return of Palestinians in the Gaza strips
Nevertheless, according to the government there, over half a million Palestinians returned to the region last week. Most are determined to stay and rebuild-even if US President Donald Trump wants them to leave the enclave to create a "Riviera of the Middle East".
Trump's controversial statements
"I don't think that people should return to Gaza", within just one week that Trump said Gaza.
his proposal was criticized worldwide and met with unbelief and outrage among the Gazans.
determination of the people in Gaza
Amir Karaja told CNN that he would "rather eat the debris" than to be forced to leave his home country. "We are steadfast here," said Karaja on Wednesday, while working on the remains of his house in the Nuseirira camp in Central Gaza. The building looks like a doll's house after the entire front wall has collapsed and the interior has become visible.
"This is our country and we are the honest and true owners of the country. I am not driven out. Neither (Trump) nor someone else can drive us out of Gaza," emphasized Karaja.
resistance to displacement
nearby said Iyam Jahjouh, who is at home in her badly damaged one, that she does not think about moving. "We will not leave our country or our houses, despite the great destruction and everything that happened in Gaza, we are here and will stay here," she assured.
The roof and several walls of your modest house are destroyed, which Jahjouh only leaves one room with a makeshift roof. But in this neighborhood their house is one of the least destroyed.
"Why should I leave my country? Do you want to send me to Egypt or Jordan? No, we won't accept that. We will set up a tent, and no matter what you do, we will not leave our country. We are not interested in Trump or Netanyahu's threats," she said. <
The refugee Situation in Gaza
About 70 % of the 2.1 million inhabitants Gazas are already by the United Nations as refugee Registered, many of them are descendants of the Palestinians who were driven out in 1948 when about 700,000 Palestinians were forced to leave their homes during the foundation of Israel. They were denied the return to their traditional houses in today's Israel. The Arabs describe this event as the "Nakba" (catastrophe).
resistance to the Nakba
The determination of not repeating this displacement, regardless of the current difficulties, was spread among the dozens of people with whom CNN spoke in Gaza on Wednesday and last week.
in the vegetable market by Khan Younis, a city that was badly damaged by Israeli bombing, Ahmad Safi explained that it was "impossible" to bring people from Gaza. "We lived under bombing for 1.5 years. After all this suffering, hunger, bombing and death, we won't leave Gaza so easily," he said. "We prefer hell Gazas to the paradise of another country ... Even if the whole money in the world is offered, we don't leave this country."
AWATEF Abu Sitta expressed similar feelings towards CNN: "All houses of our children are destroyed, and our house is half destroyed. Rain comes into the house, the cold penetrates and we stay no matter what happens, even if we live in the tent. Even if they give us locks and villas, we don't leave our country."
Many people in the Gaza Strip have returned to what has left of their houses after the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel came into force between Hamas and Israel last week. The Gazar government's media office stated that around 500,000 displaced Palestinians - almost a quarter of the population of the enclave - returned to the devastated north in the first 72 hours after the approval of their return last Monday.
celebrate the return
Many of them celebrated their return home with joy, despite the far -reaching destruction. Saleh al-Sawalha from Jabalya in northern Gaza said to CNN that the Palestinians are people who refuse to give up. "I was driven out 12 times," he said to CNN last week while waiting to take the trip to the north. "We went to a place, they (the Israelis) said it was bombarded. We went to another place; they said they were bombarded. We moved from one place to another. We are so exhausted. There is nothing better than being at home again. That is all we want."
"I will not go," he said in response to the comments of the US President. "Please send this message to Trump: This is the last thought that would go through our heads."
secrets of the past
During the Nakba, many Palestinians were left in the belief that their expulsion was temporary and that they should return as soon as the war is over. But that never happened. Trump suggested last month that both Jordan and Egypt should record the Palestinians from Gaza and noticed that the potential accommodation could be "temporary" or "long -term".
On Tuesday he said that some Palestinians could return to Gaza in the future. He imagined that "the people of the world live" in what he described as "an international, incredible place". When asked whether Palestinians would live in Gaza, he said: "Palestinians too. Palestinians will live there. Many people will live there."
Awni al Wadia, who was forced to leave his home in northern Gaza last year, explained that the collective memory of the 1948 events is a reason why he will not leave the enclave. "These comments have already been made in the past. 1967 (in the Arabic-Israeli War) when they drove out the Palestinians, they said that it was temporarily until the situation has calmed down. And so far they have not returned. They remained expelled," he said Cnn.
like tens of thousands other rushes Al Wadia back to Nordgaza as soon as there was the possibility.
CNNS TARE HILOU reported from Khan Younis and Mohammad al-Sawalhi reported from Nuseirrat in the Gaza strip; Kareem Khadder and Abeer Salman reported and wrote from Jerusalem and Ivana Kottasová from London.
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