Raed Musa - Gaza


After more than seven decades, and on the 72nd anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, death almost completely misses the first generation that lived through it, but children and grandchildren inherit the "dream of return" as they inherit their genetics and their genetic characteristics, and the love of Palestine takes place in the bloodstream.

In Jabalia refugee camp, the largest and most crowded Gaza Strip camp, children's dreams circulate in a space above the narrow alleys of the camp and its adjacent homes, showing awareness of their cause and holding onto the banner of returning to the stolen homes.

Refugees constitute about 70% of the two million Palestinians in the small coastal sector, but the majority of these were born and brought up far from their cities and villages in occupied Palestine, where their parents and grandparents forcibly deserted under the impact of the Zionist massacres during the Nakba in 1948.

The eightieth refugee Zakia Abu Salem cultivates the love of Palestine and returns to it in the hearts of her grandchildren (Al-Jazeera Net)

The children of the Gaza camps, which the Nakba generation was keen to give the names of their original cities and towns to, do not hesitate to answer the usual question, "Where are you from?", And the answer comes quickly: "I am from Berbera", "I am from Berir", "I am from Majdal" “I am from Sesame,” “I am from Jaffa,” and they grew up on the parents ’and grandparents’ talk that the current camp is a “temporary address until the return.”

Zakia Abu Salem is a refugee from Yebna, she was ten years old when the Nakba occurred, and she still holds on to hope, and that she will one day return to her hometown, and says, "If God does not write to me to return, my grandchildren will inevitably return and the truth must return to his companions, no matter how long it takes." ".

Zakia is the greatest among her family members who have experienced the Nakba, and she is keen to gather her grandchildren and the children of the neighbors to talk to them with longing and nostalgia mixed with sorrow and pain about the memories of the country and the beauty of Palestine, and cultivate the patriotism in them.