Gaza- With a welcome, drinking water, some blankets and basic necessities, The thirty-year-old Muhammad Abu Rujaila Endowment receives delegations of displaced people from the north Gaza strip To the south, that is Like dozens of young people from the city of Khan Yunis who lined up on both sides of Salah al-Din Street to welcome and help.
The “terror of chivalry,” as Muhammad described it, had a great impact on the souls of the displaced, the majority of whom were women and children, after an arduous journey on foot, ranging between 15 and 30 kilometers, as the Israeli occupation forces forced them not to use any means of transportation during this forced journey.
Speaking to Al Jazeera Net, Abu Rujaila said, “The terror of dignity and chivalry was not by prior arrangement, but rather motivated by the chivalry and dignity of young people, including displaced people, who went through the experience of displacement and homelessness, and feel the same pain and oppression, as people forced to leave their homes and possessions, and to move, forced to wear their clothes.” Just”.
Displaced people from eastern Khan Yunis receive displaced people from the northern Gaza Strip #Gaza With water and food#video #Gaza_War pic.twitter.com/W8jVVxTALv
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Welcome and togetherness
Abu Rujaila himself is displaced with his family of 7 members, from their home adjacent to the Israeli security fence in the town of Khuza’a, east of the city of Khan Yunis, an experience that this family has become accustomed to in all previous wars, adding that “scenes of solidarity are not strange to us here in Gaza, they are part of It is essential to belong to this land and to Palestine.”
The past few days have witnessed an active movement of displaced people from Gaza City and towns North of the sector To the Central Governorate and my city Rafah Khan Yunis in the south, due to the horrific crimes committed by the occupation forces, which became more severe and bloody with the ground incursion.
And you appreciate it Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that 780,000 displaced people took refuge in shelter centers in its affiliated schools, which were overflowing with people, prompting thousands more to open government schools and reside there without any necessities, in addition to overcrowding inside the homes of relatives and friends.
Abu Rajila – a content creator – documented the panic of receiving the displaced people with a video clip that was widely and admired, and contributed to the influx of numbers of young people taking the initiative to participate in receiving the displaced, welcoming them, and relieving them.
The youth of Khan Yunis and its honorable people receive their displaced families from the north #Gaza By distributing drinking water, the effort of the people, and the blessing of the honorable people whose homes and shops were depleted of everything that could be provided after 38 days of the deadly siege, and nothing remained in their hands except water.
Dear Gaza… and dear and honorable to your family, even if days pass by. pic.twitter.com/CqF6QE7aaF– Saad Waheidi (@WaheidiSaad) November 13, 2023
A journey of torment and horror
The arduous journey of displacement is described by the displaced person, Muhammad al-Kafarna, as a “trip of agony and terror.” He arrived with dozens of members of his extended family, the largest family in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, to the Doha Public School in the city of Rafah, and spent the night without water, food, bedding, or sleeping covers. .
Accompanied by others from other families from Gaza City and its north, Al-Kafarna told Al-Jazeera Net that they covered a distance of more than 20 kilometers on foot, surrounded by occupation tanks and vehicles, and snipers were stationed on the roofs of high-rise buildings, while military aircraft were flying in the air, spreading fear and terrorism.
Al-Kafarna did not get rid of the fatigue of the road and the oppression of being far from his home and agricultural land, but he sees in the warm reception from “our people in the south, which alleviates the suffering. We are all families and our affliction is the same.”
The Al-Kafarna family, in all previous Israeli wars and rounds of escalation, has become accustomed to having a share in the “bill of blood and destruction,” like other families in the town of Beit Hanoun, which received the heaviest Israeli air strikes from the first moments on the 7th of last month. This town is also one of the main axes from which Israeli forces have penetrated by land.
Al-Kafarna was forced to flee first to an UNRWA school in the Jabalia refugee camp, and with the intensification of the air strikes and successive Israeli warnings to the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to move beyond the Gaza Valley to the south, he and his family decided to flee to the city of Rafah, which is the first time he has resided outside the areas of the northern Gaza Strip. .
UNRWA is not responsible for the displaced in government schools, and a teacher at Doha school – who preferred to remain anonymous – says that there are volunteers who took the initiative to provide quantities of water, food and blankets for the displaced.
They treated us like family
Umm Mustafa Shabir and her family, and other families of her relatives, were luckier than Al-Kafarna and thousands of others who did not find a place for them except schools and shelter centers. She told Al-Jazeera Net, “When I follow the conditions of the displaced people in schools, I thank God for His blessing, that we are residing in an apartment.”
Early on the first day that the Israeli army warned the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to move south, Umm Mustafa was displaced with her family (11 members), along with 9 other members of her relatives, and they took refuge in the house of a colleague of her daughter’s at work, in the city of Rafah.
Dozens of residents of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, gathered to receive convoys of displaced people from the north of the Strip, as a result of the genocide that has been ongoing for 38 days. pic.twitter.com/HcSA3bLRWO
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Umm Mustafa cannot imagine her situation if she had to be displaced in a shelter center, with her husband who is sick and suffering from brain atrophy and cannot rely on himself, and with her seven daughters and two sons.
Before her displacement from the Al-Saftawi area, north of Gaza City, Umm Mustafa received a displaced woman from the town of Beit Hanoun with her three children, without prior knowledge, adding, “My house is big, and if I had 100 others with her, I would have opened the doors for them, because we are in a crisis and with it people’s qualities are showing.” .
Umm Mustafa told her daughter’s colleague, Issam and his brother Hamouda, who live in a three-story family house, that they emptied their apartments and stayed with their families on the ground floor, in addition to providing them with their needs of water, blankets, and bedding.
She concludes by saying, “They treated us as if we were family, and we did not feel alienated from them, despite the harshness of displacement from our homes. We are in paradise compared to the suffering of the displaced in schools and hospitals.”
