Approaching the end of a year that could hardly have brought more hardship, after 12 weeks of Israeli attacks, the people of Gaza have little hope that 2024 will bring much relief.
In Rafah, on Gaza's border with Egypt, which has become the main location for Palestinians fleeing other parts of the enclave, people on Sunday were more concerned with trying to find shelter, food and water than with the new year.
“In 2024, I want to go back to the wreckage of my house, pitch a tent and live there,” said Abu Abdullah al-Agha, a middle-aged Palestinian man whose house in Khan Younis was destroyed and who lost a niece and nephew. both young men, in an Israeli airstrike.
“I wish our children to live in peace and security, to return to school, to university, for workers to return to their jobs and find a source of income,” he added.
Israel began its war in Gaza on October 7, after Palestinian Hamas soldiers crossed the border to kill more than 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and take 240 hostages.
The Israeli bombardment drove almost all Gazans from their homes, killed 21,800 people, according to health authorities in the Hamas-ruled enclave, and left survivors suffering from hunger, disease and poverty.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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