‘A long, long road ahead’: Gaza rebuilds from zero

On foot or by car, the house started the trip.

For the 15-month displacement gazans, the distance is not far-is a Gaza bar is a small place-but today’s trip is just the beginning of a very uncertain future for this destroyed place of war.

It is difficult to understand the size of the human challenge that is waving on the horizon.

“There are no facilities, no services, no electricity, no water, no infrastructure,” Ghazan said, as it is preparing to return to the north of Deir Pala, where she was referring to months.

“We have to re -establish again from the beginning, from scratch.”

Immediate needs began – food and shelter – are treated.

“Aid has been flowing at levels that we have not seen since the beginning of the conflict,” said Sam of the United Nations Refugee Agency.

“So we are able to meet the naked minimum in terms of food, water, blankets and hygiene items. But then, this is a long and long path.”

The finding of a shelter in the horrific ruins of Gaza in Gaza will be the first among many huge challenges in the long run.

Up to 700,000 people from Gaza City and the surrounding areas during the first weeks of the war. An unknown number, perhaps up to 400,000, remains in its position.

Some of the areas left behind, while others survived.

The United Nations estimates that about 70 % of Gaza Strip’s buildings have been damaged or destroyed since October 2023, with many worst destruction in the north.

Gabalia, the pre -war population of the pre -war, was destroyed, about half of them in one of the oldest and largest refugee camps in Gaza.

It is clear that for many people, the days of living in a tent are not over.

The government -run government media office in Gaza made an urgent appeal to 135,000 tents and caravans.

The United Nations says it is now able to bring 20,000 tents stuck to the border since August, along with large quantities of linoleum and mattresses. But she says she will strike to meet the sudden demand for shelter.

“There is simply not many manufactured tents for aid operations anywhere in the world,” Rose said.

People who were able to stay in the north throughout the war fear that pressure on residency, actually sharp, will get worse with the return of civilians and look at the return to homes that have been abandoned more than a year ago.

“There is a big problem because people used to stay in the homes of relatives or friends in the south.

“They must now empty these houses and return them to their owners. So a new kind of displacement started.”

Asma says that four families already live in their building with three expected soon. She says that the lack of space and privacy has already led to tensions.

Refugees return have other effects on beating.

“I went to the market today to buy frozen fish for the first time,” says Asma. “But the sellers are already raising prices.”

It is also expected to increase pressure on rare water supply and electricity.

But despite all the widespread difficulties, they talk, sometimes in wide, optimistic phrases, their satisfaction and feelings of expectation.

One of the women told the BBC: “We felt overwhelmed to return to the north, where we can finally find comfort,” one of the women told the BBC.

“You leave behind the suffering we endured in the south and return to the dignity of Beit Hannon.”

According to the recent accounts of Beit Hannon – in the far northeastern corner of the Gaza Strip, near the border with Israel – the city cannot be recognized.

What about Donald Trump’s suggestion that people must move temporarily or permanently, to Egypt or Jordan?

Egyptian and Jordanian officials rushed to condemn the proposal. Both countries are afraid of social and security effects of a sudden flow of shock refugees.

“Jordan is dedicated to Jordan and Palestine for the Palestinians.” His country is already home to 2.4 million registered Palestinian refugees.

Among the colleagues of Israeli ministers, Benjamin Netanyahu, in the extremist ministers, President Trump’s proposal received enthusiastic welcoming.

Finance Minister Bizalil Sourtrich, who prefers annexation and Israeli and settlement of the Gaza Strip as a “great idea.”

Last year, he spoke at a conference of supporters, and talked about the creation of “a position where the population of Gaza will be reduced to half of its current size within two years.”

Unless Gaza is quickly rehabilitated and gave gas to a better future, Smotrich may be his way.

“I think it is in the first few months, they will see what will happen,” says journalist Gad Kord. “If they lose everything and delay the reconstruction process, I think people will not remain in Gaza.”

About 150,000 people have left since the war began in October 2023.

Gada says that she expects others who can bear its costs, looking for a future in the Arab world or after that, while the poorest and most weak are backward.

“I agree with Trump that people deserve a better life,” she says. “But why not in Gaza?”