Striscia di Gaza, the story of those who try to start again: “We look at each other and ask ourselves” Who died? “,” Do you still have a house? “”

«I lost my sister and brother in this war. The first thing I did after the ceased the fire was to go to the cemetery to greet them ». Mohammed had told Vanity Fair His immediate sensations immediately after January 19, 2025, the first day of ceased fire in Gaza. A few days ago we resentful and explained to us what it means to return where you had everything before and now there is nothing more. “It’s like a drunkard is slowly disappearing. That of the first days, of those scenes of artificial joy, “he says on the phone while he is in the field of Deir Al-Balah. «We celebrated the victory over the rubble that hide tens of thousands of decomposition bodies. I saw a mother embrace her son’s skull to say goodbye to the last thing she found in him. To look after him with his latest tenderness after his cruel death. I saw my mother again, after almost a year and together with her we went to cry on the death of my brother and sister, killed by this war ».

After returning over the rubble of what remained of his house in Gaza, Mohammed returned to the field of Deir Al-Balah together with his wife and their four children to try to reconstruct a little normal, the possible one. «All the displaced people have returned to their cursed curtains after seeing their homes transformed into rubble and scattered stones. Loss, loss, loss and pain. They are no longer individual or private feelings. They burn within us. All the inhabitants of Gaza today feel lost. We hope in a merciful hand that can take care of our people ». Mohammed was born and raised in the field of Jabalia, in the north of Gaza, where his mother and part of the family still live today. But his house was razed to the ground.

«All the people I speak with are anxious, confused and are afraid of the future. They are inhabited by a profound feeling of despair and depression. They tell you about their loss and their shock in seeing their destroyed houses. They regret having gone to see them. What pain is what a person who has lost his home and loved ones hits? It turns into a beggar who tries to survive, suddenly. The most frequent questions of the inhabitants of Gaza in the last few hours are: “Who have you lost?” “Do you still have a house?”. And on the words of American President Donald Trump, to transform the Gaza strip into the Middle East Riviera, so with the United States they should take control of the Gaza Strip and the approximately two million Palestinian people should go elsewhere, Mohammed has no hesitation . «Here things go slowly, I think they are really thinking of implementing that plan but the truth is that we remain here. We will not leave Palestinians ».

As he explained Francesca AlbaneseUnited Nations Special Speaker for Human Rights Violations committed in Palestine, Trump’s plan «tramples on fundamental principles of international law And the international system is striking to the heart as we have known it. It incites to commit a forced displacement, which is an international crime. It is nonsense and it is illegal. Worse than ethnic cleaning ».