Displaced Palestinians return to decimated homes after cease-fire

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In Palestine, after the cease-fire, displaced civilians return to their neighborhoods to find decimated houses and search for their missing relatives under the rubble. From the Gaza Strip, our collaborator Huda Hegazi brings us more information.

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00:00In Palestine, after the ceasefire, displaced civilians returned to their neighborhoods

00:05to find decimated houses and search for their missing relatives under the rubble.

00:10From the Gaza Strip, our collaborator, Judah Hegazi, brings us more information.

00:21I am in the area of Al-Bureij, this refugee camp located in the center of the Gaza Strip,

00:26which was one of the areas most attacked by the Israeli army during this genocidal war

00:31that lasted more than 15 consecutive months.

00:35As we can see, the destruction caused by the Israeli regime is extensive.

00:39Precisely here, I found the home of the Al-Rashash family, which as we can see has been completely

00:45destroyed.

00:46But what surprised me about this story is that despite being completely gone, since

00:51the home is in ruins, just a pile of destroyed stones, the family has come here again to

00:56live after the ceasefire.

00:58They returned to their home, to their house, although as we can see there is literally

01:02no house.

01:03They have put sheets to simulate a door so that they can live in this place, which is

01:08literally destroyed.

01:09What surprised me about this story is that the family, and especially the mother, came

01:14here because she said that in one of the attacks carried out by the occupying army, her children

01:49were right here in this place.

01:50And up to now she has not been able to get them out from under the rubble.

01:54That is, even now her children are under all this pile of ruins, under all this pile of

01:59rubble.

02:00And so this woman says that she does not want to leave her home, she does not want to live

02:05anywhere else but here, even though it is destroyed.

02:08Because above all, now her main objective is to get her children out and be able to

02:13bury them.

02:14Now we will talk with this woman, who is the mother of the family, so that she can tell

02:18us her story.

02:33I want you to tell me how you lived through the war, how many times you evacuated and

02:37why did you come back here.

02:39I have evacuated many times.

02:41Every time there were attacks we had to evacuate and flee.

02:44We have no house, no shelter, nothing.

02:47They even attacked us once for trying to eat.

02:49I came back here after the ceasefire to look for my children.

02:53Four of them died in an attack on my house.

02:55I came to see them and call for them and tell them to come out.

02:58Come out Atta, come out Mohamed, come out Nasir, come out Nahed.

03:02But none of them answered me.

03:04Here they are, under the rubble.

03:08How are you going to live here if your house is only ruins?

03:12How am I going to live?

03:13With God's help.

03:14I called the whole world to help us.

03:16What am I going to do?

03:17Nobody helps us.

03:18They just talk.

03:30This woman assured us that she has returned to her home because she literally has nowhere

03:34else to go.

03:35This is the only place where she can stay at this moment.

03:38The main reason that has pushed her to return to her home is because her children are still

03:43under the rubble.

03:44There are four young people who were killed by this friarly regime and whose bodies have

03:48not been able to be retrieved.

03:50So she is hurting since she hasn't been able to bury her children, who remain under the

03:55rubble after so long.

03:57So now her only wish is to get her children out so she can bury them with her own hands.

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