In Palestine, after the cease-fire deal came into action, displaced civilians return to destroyed homes in the Gaza Strip to try to rebuild their lives. From Al-Mawasi, our collaborator Huda Hegazi tells us more.
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00:11In Palestine, after the ceasefire deal came into action, displaced civilians returned
00:15to destroy homes in the Gaza Strip to try and rebuild their life.
00:20From Al-Mawassi, our collaborator Huda Hegazi, tell us more.
00:26I'm currently in the Al-Mawassi area in the center of the Gaza Strip, a coastal area which
00:35is full of gas and refugee camps where people evacuated to during this genocidal war.
00:41After the ceasefire, when I came here, I thought I was going to find people taking down their
00:45tents and going back to their homes, like for example in the southern area, in Rafah,
00:50where the army has withdrawn.
00:52But unfortunately, I found that despite the ceasefire, despite the end of the war, people
00:57are in the same situation.
01:04I mean, the tents are still there.
01:06I didn't find an image of people returning to their homes, at least in the center and
01:11south of the Gaza Strip, and the humanitarian situation literally is the same.
01:15Even when I arrived at this camp, I met a family coming from the Rafah area, specifically
01:20from the south of the Gaza Strip, who today went to see their home, or at least what is
01:25left of it, and literally found nothing of their home.
01:28Now we will talk to them so they can tell us what they will do in this case, where would
01:33they move to now, and whether they will return to their destroyed home or remain in this place.
01:46Today, when you went to Rafah, what did you find?
01:48I found a lot of destruction in Rafah.
01:50Even my house was destroyed.
01:52We had two houses, and both of them are destroyed.
01:54I tried to take out some of our things, but there was hardly anything left.
01:58We were in shock with what we saw.
02:00Even my father was going to faint from what he saw.
02:03He could not assimilate why our two houses were destroyed.
02:08When you saw that you had no house, what are you going to do now?
02:11Are you going to stay here or what?
02:13I don't know what we are going to do, and we don't know where we are going to go.
02:16We are going to wait to see what is going to happen, and we will do the same thing that
02:19people are going to do.
02:21I mean, the war is over, but life will not go on the same.
02:24Yes, of course, the war is over, but the situation is still very, very difficult, and there are
02:29still very difficult days ahead for us.
02:42As this young man has assured us, despite the end of the war, the humanitarian and catastrophic
02:47situation that the Gazans are living is the same.
02:50There is still a long process of reconstruction, there is still a long process for the people
02:55to know what they are going to do.
02:57We were saying before that yes, the war is over, at least the bombings are over, the
03:01death is over, but nevertheless, now the people will have to face a much more difficult war,
03:07that of returning to life.
03:08The Gazans need a lot of time to return at least a little bit to what their life was
03:13before.
03:14The people, as we can see, are still in the same condition, living in tents, in inhuman
03:18conditions, without having a place where they can take shelter, without having access to
03:35a house.
03:36And therefore, that return that everybody had in mind, unfortunately so far, will not
03:40be possible.
03:42People will continue to live in these camps for a long time, or they will even remove
03:46their tents from this place and install them on top of the ruins of what used to be their
03:50main home.
03:51Therefore, life in shelters, in tents, will continue being a reality in the Gaza Strip
03:55for many years to come.