"We've been displaced from place to place, and now we have nowhere left to go," says Umm Mohammed al-Shawish.
She is desperately searching for somewhere to live after Israel moved yellow concrete blocks that mark out where it controls in the Gaza Strip.
Families living in al-Tuffah in northern Gaza woke on Monday to find the blocks had been moved westwards into the centre of Salah al-Din road, a key north-south route through Gaza.
Nearby, an Israeli flag was flying on top of an earth barrier around 3m (10ft) tall.
The al-Shawish family home was destroyed during the war. On Sunday, they had to flee again after the Israeli military called to warn of an attack on a nearby building. Their only shelter was a tent, which was torn apart by the strike.
"We are going to die here," Mohammed al-Shawish said. "Death is better than humiliation. No-one is standing with us."
Under the terms of the US-brokered ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas last October, Israel agreed to withdraw its forces from across Gaza to a designated demarcation - the Yellow Line.
The deal was meant to leave Israel in temporary control of the area behind the Yellow Line - equating to 53% of Gaza's territory. However, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) controlled more than 60%. In May, he said publicly that his "directive" was to move to 70%.
FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvwjmme3p0o
No comments:
Post a Comment