PNN – The Guardian newspaper wrote in an article in an interview with some residents of the Gaza Strip: They have not forgotten the displacement and exile that happened to them after the establishment of Israel and the “Nakbat” and this time, rejecting the proposal of the American president, they will not leave their homes and announced that they will stay in their hometown.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network from the Guardian newspaper, after 15 months of war, the people of Gaza reject Trump’s plan and say: This time we will stay and not leave our homes.
Saeed Salem is a resident of Gaza, whose eyes fill with tears when he sees the ruins left by the war in northern Gaza. While sitting on a chair surrounded by debris, he has hope for the future.
Salem explained to this English newspaper that his family once lost their hometown in “Harbia Village” in 1948, which has now become a settlement for Israeli settlers. Salem, recalling the memories of that time when he was only five years old, says: We locked the door of our house, took the key and came here (northern Gaza) hoping to come back again. But in the end, what we got from this decades-long expectation was a tent and a camp and permanent exile in Gaza.
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The Guardian reminds that Saeed Salem is one of nearly 700,000 Palestinians who were forced to leave their homeland after the forced migration during the 1948 war over the establishment of Israel and the “Nakbat” day. Perhaps this is why Salem and his family refused to evacuate their house in Gaza this time after the Israeli attacks on October 7, 2023. He told the Guardian: We swore not to repeat that mistake again.
Salem and his family, along with nearly 400,000 others, have never left their home during the past 15 months of war in northern Gaza, despite the siege and lack of basic humanitarian aid in the midst of a massive famine.
Salem, who lost more than 90 of his friends and relatives during the recent war in Gaza, says: “We will not repeat the Nakbat. We will not abandon Gaza like we did with “Herbia”. This time we will ignore the consequences.”
The Guardian has noted that according to the health authorities of the Gaza Strip, during the 15-month Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, more than 48,000 Palestinians died and more than 110,000 were injured. 9 out of 10 houses were damaged or destroyed and more than 90% of the people of Gaza were displaced.
Mazuzeh, an Indian resident of Gaza, whose one son was martyred while searching for food, and whose other son is now barely surviving against the cold air, told the Guardian: I am trying to provide shelter for my children with torn pieces of clothes and mattresses left over from destroyed houses. We had no food to eat for the last 15 months and I used to find food for my children which even the animals would not eat. But I am not willing to leave here. I spend all my energy taking care of my children.
Khaldiya al-Shanbari, a woman living in northern Gaza, who lost her family in the war and was paralyzed in one of her legs due to Israeli attacks, now lives in a dilapidated school classroom with her only sister. She explains to the Guardian: See there! I have planted vegetables in the yard of this school, although I have nowhere to stay when the schools open and I may have to leave this dilapidated classroom, but I will not leave Gaza. We have endured bombing, starvation and the death of our loved ones for almost two years, but we are still here. We will endure until the end of this nightmare.
US President Donald Trump demanded the complete evacuation of the Gaza Strip and the relocation of its residents to neighboring Arab countries and other regions and the US control over the Gaza Strip.