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After a difficult displacement journey that was followed by several no less difficult journeys, displaced women and girls from Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip arrived in Deir al-Balah in the center of the Strip to escape the hunger that threatens the residents of the north, from which the occupation prevents aid, and does not allow the little that arrives to be taken except under a barrage of violence. Lead often mixes flour with blood.

After Zarifa Hamad (74 years old) - who has lived through all the Israeli wars since 1948 - arrived at a school library in Deir al-Balah, she confirmed that the Palestinian people had never witnessed anything worse than this war, and that she had never experienced hunger in her life like the one she experienced in the northern Gaza Strip, where Scarce aid is distributed that does not satisfy people's needs.

On a wooden board

As for the elderly woman, Kamla Naeem, her pelvis was broken after her foot slipped while she was running for fear of the continuous Israeli bombing that targeted inhabited homes in Beit Hanoun. Since then, she has been unable to walk except a few steps, and spends her time lying on her back.

This is what prompted her family to drag her after placing her on a wooden plank all the way from Beit Hanoun to Deir al-Balah, where the necessary treatment is also not available to her.

I arrived alone

Adiba Abu Amsha, who arrived alone in Deir al-Balah, was crying after the occupation forces arrested her husband in a raid on a school sheltering displaced people. Her freed prisoner husband, who spent 7 years in Israeli prisons, completely lost his memory.

Worried about the fate of her husband, Adiba does not feel safe in her shelter, stressing that the necessities of life in the Gaza Strip are completely lacking, and that suffering “haunts the Palestinian people” who are left alone.

Burning books is a necessity

In places of displacement, burning books has become a necessary necessity to light a fire in order to keep warm, according to what the child, Rahaf Hamad, confirms.

Rahaf said that her family took refuge in an overcrowded school library in Deir al-Balah after being displaced from Beit Hanoun, where the displaced people were forced to empty the library of books to burn them, noting that her generation was supposed to read these books in school.

The devastating Israeli war - according to the United Nations - forced nearly a million women and girls to leave their homes in Gaza, and they now live in crowded apartments, in UNRWA schools, in tents, or even in the corridors of hospitals that have also become camps. For displaced people.

Source: Al Jazeera