Gaza: Displaced people look forward to peace and to be seen by the world as human beings with the advent of a new year
Najla, who is 36 years old, lives with her relatives in a modest tent in the Al-Sadaqa camp, west of Deir al-Balah, where she cooperates with her relatives on all daily chores, including taking her daughter to school, which is another tent close to their tent.
Najla is one of other displaced women who were displaced without their husbands and became breadwinners for their families.
She told a UN news correspondent in Gaza: “We wake up and go to sleep every day wondering: when will this war end, and when will this suffering that we are experiencing end?”.
added: “What I witnessed in a year and four months made me feel as if I had become sixty years old. I carry water, and wait in front of a hospice to bring food for my children. These are tasks carried out by men. But many women have been displaced without their husbands. Everything I, others, and even the children are calling for is to be fulfilled.” peace”.
Displaced person Najla Abu Al-Aoun takes her daughter to school in Al-Sadaqa camp – west of Deir Al-Balah.
Peace wish
What Najla is looking forward to is this “The world looks at us as human beings, and all institutions in the world look at us with consideration.”.
The displaced Palestinian woman said: “We are concerned with peace and we do not want war. We want to live and for our sons and daughters to grow up in safety.”.
She hoped she wouldn’t walk somewhere where she would remember that “My neighbor lived here, but he’s dead now. And a family lived there, but they were wiped out.”.
In the same camp lives the displaced person, Sharif Al-Sharif, who has been displaced ten times so far.
The displaced person, Sharif Al-Sharif, has been displaced ten times and is now in the Friendship Camp in Deir Al-Balah.
Sharif told our correspondent: “No one cares about us or looks at us. We have no flour, no food or drink.”.
He complained that rainwater flooded their tents and wet their children and belongings, adding “We haven’t eaten since yesterday. All we want and hope for is peace.”.
Peace is what the displaced person, Muhammad al-Sisi, also hopes for, who said: “We hope to see that day when we live in peace, like other people in the world.”.
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