Gazans face tough choices as their future is debated on global stage

Gabalia, which is seen from the air, for breathtaking.

The arid lands that resemble Hiroshima extend as much as you can see the eye. The bodies of the distorted buildings are disturbing the distorted landscape, some of which are inclined in crazy corners.

Great wavy waves make it impossible to make the geographical and tightly crowded refugee camp.

However, when the drone camera flies over the debris, it chooses spots of blue and white where small tent camps are prepared in spots of open ground.

The numbers, which climb on broken buildings, move along the dirt streets, where food markets emerge under the surfaces of tin and cloth umbrellas. Children who use a breakdown roof as a slice.

More than six weeks after a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, Gabalia slowly returns to life.

In the Al -Qasim neighborhood, Nabil returned to a four -storey house that still exists, even if he lacks windows and doors – in some places – the walls.

He and his relatives have made raw balconies of wooden platforms and put the waxed fabric to preserve the elements.

“Look at the destruction,” he says, asking Gabalia’s vicinity of the ruins of the upper floor of the gap.

“They want us to leave without rebuilding it? How can we leave. The least we can do is rebuild it to our children.”

To cook a meal, Nabil lights up a fire on the bare stairs, causing it carefully with pieces of torn cardboard.

On another floor, Laila Ahmed Okasha washed in a basin where the tap was dry months ago.

“There is no water, electricity or water,” she says. “If we need water, we must go to a far place to fill the buckets.”

She says she cried when she returned home and found that she was shattered.

Israel and enthusiasm blame for the destruction of the world that I knew once.

“Both are responsible,” she says. “We had a decent and comfortable life.”

Shortly after the start of the war in October 2023, Israel told the Palestinians in the northern part of the Gaza Strip – including Gabalia – to move south for their safety.

Hundreds of thousands of people responded to the warning, but many of them were bound, determined to get out of the war.

Laila and her husband Marwan clung to October last year, when the Israeli army returned Gabalia, saying that Hamas had been reshaped the fighting units inside the tight streets of the camp.

After two months of shelter in the nearby Catte camp, Laila and Marwan returned to find an unknown Gabia.

“When we went back and saw how it was destroyed, I no longer want to stay here,” said Marwan.

“I have had a great life, but it is now hell. If I had the opportunity to leave, I will go. I will not stay another minute.”

Stay or go? The future of the civilian population in Gaza is now the subject of international debate.

In February, Donald Trump suggested that the United States take over Gaza and that nearly two million Palestinian residents should leave, perhaps forever.

In the face of international anger and fierce opposition from Arab leaders, Trump later seemed to back down from the plan, saying he recommended this, but he would not force him to anyone.

Meanwhile, Egypt led Arab efforts to reach an applicable alternative, to be presented at an Arab summit in emergency situations in Cairo on Tuesday.

Decally, she says that the Palestinian population should remain inside Gaza while rebuilding the area.

Donald Trump’s intervention took place in Gaza’s stubborn side.

“If Trump wants to make us leave, I will stay in Gaza,” Leila says. “I want to travel on my free will. I will not leave because of it.”

Through the road, a yellow mass of nine floors of apartments that was stunned in a stunning way is located, it is difficult to believe that it has not collapsed.

The upper floors are completely mocked, threatening the rest. Over time, it will definitely be demolished, but for the time being, it is home to more families. There are sheets in windows and hanging washing until they dry in the late winter sunlight.

On everything at all, outside a temporary plastic entrance in a corner of the ground floor, along with the piles of rubble and garbage, a cut -off model stands, wears a wedding dress.

It is Sana Abu Ishbak dress store.

The 45 -year -old sewing created the 11 -year -old, work two years before the war, but she had to abandon it when she fled in the south in November 2023.

She returned as soon as the ceasefire was announced. With her husband and daughters, she was busy removing the debris from the store, arranging dresses on the hangers and preparing to work.

“I love the Gabalia camp, and I will not leave it until I die,” she says.

SANA and Lil seem to be equal to survival if you can. But both women speak differently when they talk about young people.

“She does not even know how to write her own name,” says Laila about her granddaughter.

“There is no education in Gaza.”

The mother of the little girl was killed during the war. Laila says she is still talking to her at night.

“My soul was my soul and left her daughter in my hand. If I had an opportunity to travel, I will do it for my granddaughter.”