Life has revived on the beaches of Gaza, which witnessed a remarkable turnout from Gazans during the past two days, 11 days after the Israeli war, which obligated most of them to homes, and leaving them was fraught with great dangers.

The Gaza Sea was "lonely", and just approaching it is a dangerous adventure, with violent bombardment from Israeli warships, and in light of the intense flight of warplanes spewing lava of fire and spreading death and destruction from the air.

Muhammad Matar, 43, accompanied his wife and five children to the sea for the second day in a row, and told Al-Jazeera Net, "We were subjected to severe pressure, and we must vent for ourselves and our children."

And his son Ali (14 years) interrupted him, saying, "By God, we were bored with the house." Muhammad and his family did not leave their home in Gaza City throughout the days of the war, except after the ceasefire agreement entered into force.

Life returns to the Sea of ​​Gaza days after a bloody and devastating Israeli war (Al-Jazeera)

Muhammad describes those days as "terrifying, and they are the most dangerous among the previous wars; death was close to everyone in Gaza."

Like most of Gaza’s residents (about two million people), the sea represents an outlet for Muhammad and his family, in light of a tight blockade for 15 years, restrictions on travel movement, and deteriorating economic conditions that deny them their right to travel and foreign tourism.

Israel destroyed a number of marine rest houses and recreational places on the seashore, targeting them from the air and at sea.

Muhammad said, "The occupation wants to destroy everything that is beautiful in Gaza."

Ali and his brothers did not wear special clothes by the sea, but they did wear clothes that the Israeli war prevented them from wearing on Eid al-Fitr, which Gazans did not practice by visiting and hiking.

Eid Gaza time

With the end of the war, the people began to invade their Eid, either by heading to the sea and the remaining entertainment venues that the Israeli raids had not affected, or by visiting.

Ahmed Awni (19 years) said to Al-Jazeera Net, "Despite the pain of martyrs, hundreds of wounded, and great destruction, we must defeat the occupation by returning to life."

Awni wore new clothes that he had bought at the end of Ramadan in preparation for the Eid reception, and went to visit his relatives, and said with a smile, "Our Eid is different ... Our Eid is in Ghazawi time after all the people."

With the announcement of the ceasefire at dawn last Friday, responsible authorities contacted the fishermen and informed them of the possibility of returning to the fishing profession.

Fisherman Ahmed Al-Najjar told Al-Jazeera Net, "I decided to return to the sea, despite realizing that the danger was not over yet."

Meanwhile, other fishermen preferred not to take risks, whether for fear of danger or because of damage to their boats and fishing equipment as a result of the Israeli bombing operations during the war.

The sea was lonely during the days of the war on Gaza (Al-Jazeera)

Al-Najjar added that the sea represents a source of livelihood for thousands of fishermen and their families, and the dangers they face inside the sea are not new and continuous all the time, but they have no way but to continue working in this profession that they inherit from generation to generation.

According to Zakaria Bakr, the official of the fishermen's committees in the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, to Al-Jazeera Net, a number of fishermen decided to venture and return to fishing, despite the risks and the absence of an Israeli decision to do so.

The fisherman al-Najjar confirmed that the Israeli naval boats prevented the fishermen from crossing a distance of no more than two nautical miles, and opened fire near their boats with the aim of terrorizing them and pushing them to return to the beach and leave the sea.

Israel closed the sea prior to the outbreak of the war on May 10, and simultaneously closed the only commercial Kerem Shalom and Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossings for humanitarian cases.