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In front of my destroyed home in Gaza
This bright morning, filled with hope, I stood before my ruined house and shouted with all my heart: I swear to you, we will rebuild it stronger than ever. I swear to you, our homeland will bloom again. I swear to you, the sun of freedom is on its way.
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More than 376,000 Palestinians returned to the northern Gaza Strip between Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon, stated The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
It explained it was a huge human deluge of displaced persons half of whom are men, a quarter are women, and the other quarter are children who were forced to leave their homes over the past 15 months because of the Israeli war on Gaza.
The UN organization stated that women, the elderly, people with disabilities, diseases, or in need of urgent medical care, or unaccompanied minors are among the main vulnerable groups of displaced people who have made this difficult journey on foot.
The displaced people from the northern Gaza Strip began returning to their homes last Monday, in accordance with the ceasefire agreement signed between Hamas and the Israeli occupation on 19 January, 2025, and which halts the bloody war waged by the Israeli occupation army on the Gaza Strip since 7 October, 2023.
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An Israeli soldier who is a bulldozer operator, was interviewed on Hebrew Kan and said:
“I told the officer that I perform a symphony with a D9 bulldozer, demolishing 50 buildings a week by myself,” said Rabbi Avraham Zarbib who served in the Israel army for the whole duration of the war on Gaza.
“A two-story house means nothing to us. We completely destroyed Jabalia and Rafah, and we were on our way to destroying Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, but the [ceasefire] agreement didn’t give us enough time, so we settled for destroying half of them,” he added.
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The Israeli military’s recent genocide and ethnic cleansing have left 80% of northern Gaza in ruins, a Palestinian official said Tuesday.
Areas like the Jabalia refugee camp, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia have suffered near-total destruction, Deputy Minister of Public Works and Housing in Gaza Naji Sarhan told Anadolu.
“The devastation is absolute, affecting homes, streets and infrastructure, making northern Gaza uninhabitable,” Sarhan said.
More than 300,000 Palestinians are currently homeless, and the impending return of internally displaced people from central and southern Gaza according to the ceasefire agreement is expected to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis, he added.
Sarhan emphasized the urgent need for international support, noting that the reconstruction of northern Gaza will require monumental efforts and global assistance.
During a press conference in Jabalia, Imad Badwan, the head of Beit Hanoun Municipality, declared northern Gaza a disaster zone. He detailed the destruction of roads, water and sewage networks and critical infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and UNRWA facilities that served as shelters.
“Israel’s offensive caused the death or disappearance of over 5,000 people and injured around 13,000, with more than 200,000 displaced,” Badwan said.
He called for immediate aid from UNRWA, the World Food Program and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to address the dire needs of shelter, food, clothing and camp facilities for displaced individuals.
A Gaza ceasefire agreement took effect on Sunday, suspending Israel’s genocidal war that has killed at least 47,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured more than 110,700 since Oct. 7, 2023.
The three-phase ceasefire agreement includes a prisoner exchange and sustained calm, aiming for a permanent truce and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
The Israeli onslaught has left more than 11,000 people missing, with widespread destruction and a humanitarian crisis that has claimed the lives of many elderly people and children in one of the worst global humanitarian disasters ever.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants in November last year for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
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After more than 15 months of the bloody Israeli genocide, the Gaza Strip appears as if it has just emerged from a devastating earthquake due to the massive destruction of buildings, facilities and streets.
The destruction of infrastructure, including homes, buildings, facilities, streets, water and sewage networks, stands unprecedented in modern history.
This destruction, halted for the time being by a ceasefire agreement that went into effect between Hamas and Israel last Sunday morning, days after it was reached through US, Qatar and Egypt mediation has left a stark and harsh humanitarian reality.
Gaza Government Media Office figures released Tuesday, states the Israeli army dropped over 100,000 tons of explosives on the Strip causing the destruction of about 88 percent of the infrastructure, homes, water and sewage networks, electricity and the economy.
The cost of the initial direct losses from this war of extermination exceeds $38 billion.
The first phase of the agreement is scheduled to last for 42 days, during which negotiations will be held to start a second and then a third phase.
Between October 7, 2023 and January 19, 2024, the Israeli genocide left more than 157,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing. This is one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
