Gaza City residents dread new displacement by the IDF

DW (English)

Israel has reportedly begun to intensify strikes on Gaza City. Israel's Security Cabinet recently approved plans to occupy the city, much of which has already been destroyed. DW spoke with Palestinians residents.

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00:00Khalil al-Faram is a tailor in Gaza City.

00:03Supplies are hard to find and not many people have money for clothes.

00:08He fears being forced to leave will make things even worse.

00:12He was one of many who were displaced during Israel's first invasion of the city at the start of the war.

00:18Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says Gaza City is a Hamas stronghold

00:23and now plans to occupy the city, forcing everyone out again.

00:30If Netanyahu decided to enter Gaza, occupy it and establish military rule,

00:34he won't leave any people here. Everyone will be expelled.

00:38We'll be no different from other people.

00:40We will leave and everything we are currently working on will be abandoned, just like we left it before.

00:48Although Gaza City is under Israeli bombardment,

00:51tens of thousands of people displaced from the north and east have gone there.

00:56Most of the Gaza Strip is already controlled by Israel.

01:01The new plans would further reduce the spaces where people would be forced to go.

01:05You just can't feel good.

01:09When you hear they want to reoccupy the area, you can no longer sleep.

01:14The anxiety is constant.

01:17You're responsible for children and women,

01:20with no means to evacuate.

01:22Even if we agreed to move,

01:24what would transportation cost?

01:28They say there's no room in Han Yunus and Rafa is destroyed.

01:32Where will we go?

01:33Nusrat and Diyar al-Bala, they're overcrowded too.

01:36It's difficult there and here.

01:38So we stay.

01:39Why be displaced?

01:41Struggling to survive Israel's continuing attacks and blockade

01:45leaves little time to consider the future.

01:48Some who do would like to see a role for the Fatah Party-dominated Palestinian Authority,

01:54which has limited governance in some parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

02:01We tried Hamas and the experience was bad.

02:05We tried the Palestinian Authority and the situation was better.

02:08We hope they will return to power here.

02:11We do not want to try new people.

02:15We knew them and lived with them.

02:17Lived a dignified life at the time.

02:19They must return to Gaza again.

02:23We demand that Hamas leaders stop the bloodshed

02:26because we, as a people, have exhausted everything we have.

02:30We have no other choice.

02:35Gaza is lost between different parties who want to rule.

02:39All we ask for is security.

02:41Whether it's Fatah or Hamas,

02:43we, as people, are asking for security,

02:45for food, for water and medical care,

02:48for our children, youth and elderly.

02:51It's all we ask for.

02:52Security.

02:54Nothing more.

02:56Netanyahu says he won't allow the Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza.

03:01Taylor Al-Faram says an Israeli takeover of Gaza City

03:05would displace people again,

03:07leaving them with nothing.

03:09We cannot rebuild our lives with anything that could be a source of income,

03:13not to be rich, just to cover food and drink expenses.

03:17As soon as we begin, they come to tell us to leave again.

03:21Despite his concerns,

03:23the tailor continues to make clothes for the kids around him

03:26for as long as he can,

03:28and while he still has material and thread to work with.

03:44Doctor Thomas.

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