Al Jazeera Net correspondents
Jerash- His phone is almost out of his hand. Palestinian refugee Rami Al-Qayyim from the Gaza Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan continues his repeated attempts to communicate with his relatives in Gaza stripTo check on their conditions, and to know their fate after the Israeli occupation cut off the communications and Internet network in the sector, which has been subjected to the occupation’s aggression for weeks.
Al-Qayyim said in his interview with Al-Jazeera Net, “I am not afraid of cutting off communications from Gaza, as much as I am afraid of the news that will reach us after the restoration of communications.” He added, “There is nothing new to mention, and all the old is being repeated in this Israeli crime. The occupation has cut off life in all its details from our people in Gaza. Cutting off communications and Internet services was only a continuation of this long series of attempts to stifle, obscure, and isolate Gaza and its people from the world.”
Regarding the condition of his family after the loss of contact with their sister and relatives in the Gaza Strip, Al-Qayyim says, “No alphabet can describe the extent of anxiety and extreme sadness mixed with absolute inability to obtain even a single minute of contact with my older sister there in Rafah, in the south of the Strip.”
He continued his speech with regret, “Since communications were cut off, we have been trying – for the sake of my bereaved mother – to obtain the slightest piece of information about my sister and her children in Gaza. Therefore, a mere call represents for us a dose of life and a soothing relief.”
unknown fate
The situation of values applies to all residents of the camp located in Jerash Governorate, northwest of the capital, Amman, whose number is estimated at about 45,000 Palestinian refugees, including those who were displaced from the Gaza Strip towards Jordan in 1967.
Al Jazeera Net wandered through the alleys of the Gaza Palestinian refugee camp, and saw nothing in the faces of its residents except confusion, anxiety, and fear of an unknown fate awaiting their relatives in the Gaza Strip.
We listened to many live testimonies and stories scattered in the camp from the beginning of the aggression on Gaza, up to the cutting off of communications, making the Strip completely isolated from the outside world, except for some pictures broadcast by some satellite channels. The tales and stories do not stop, and carry with them everything new and frightening. According to a number of refugees who spoke to us.
Jerash Camp, or what is known as Gaza Camp, is an “emergency” camp established in 1968 to house 11,500 Palestinian refugees who left the Gaza Strip as a result of the Arab-Israeli War in 1967, while the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees provides (UNRWA) Education, health, relief and social services for the camp.
In a sad tone dominated by fear and anxiety, Haj Hamdan Al-Mathaili speaks – to Al-Jazeera Net – about his fears for the fate of his brothers in the Gaza Strip, and confirms that “the sound of the explosions was louder than his brother’s voice when he spoke to him on the phone from Gaza.” However, after the communication was cut off, he became Yemeni. To re-contact him and the rest of his family in the Gaza Strip to find out their news.
He expressed his great fear of losing more of his relatives, some of whom were lost during the past few days during the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle.
Silent massacres
The Government Information Office in Gaza announced the interruption of communications and the Internet in the Gaza Strip, at a time when Israel confirmed the expansion of its ground operations in conjunction with a violent and unprecedented bombardment of the Strip since the start of the aggression on the seventh of this October.
The office said, “The occupation army cut off communications and most of the entire Internet to commit more massacres away from the eyes of the world.”
The people of the Gaza Strip in Jordan – like other Palestinian refugees – participate in the protests rejecting the aggression on the Strip, as a number of representatives of the events in the Jerash camps (Gaza) carried out daily solidarity marches, stressing that Jordan is the land of support and support for the Palestinian people in everything they face. He was killed and destroyed at the hands of the occupation forces, calling on the international community to assume its responsibility for the war of human annihilation taking place in Gaza.
