Palestinians in Gaza say they have nowhere to go when Israel’s renewed offensive forces left their homes and face displacement again on war carnival territory.
Some Palestinians tilted garbage next to a tent next to a landfill near the Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza, and Israeli troops ordered Israeli troops to evacuate the north and face south.
Widad Sobh, holding an empty kettle in his hand, said she joined her family at the Yarmouk Stadium in the Israeli renewal battle and ground invasion after being forced to evacuate Beit Lahiya this week.
“We can’t find the place to go,” the 47-year-old told CBC News on Friday. “This is where I found, I stay here, where should I go?”
“It’s all garbage. We’re here, the water is not clean.”
Sabah Marouf, 50, said she was also displaced from Beit Lahiya after fleeing the bombing and eventually arrived at the now wasteful former football field.
“We can’t find anyone who can help us or anyone who can look at us,” Marouf told CBC press freedom photographer Mohamed El Saife.
“We are close to the garbage, the smell kills us, and the dirt is killing us.”
“When it rains, our mats and blankets are all water…we are submerged in the water here,” said Maazouza Fathi Sobh.
The 48-year-old grandmother said she and her grandson were sick from the proximity to landfills and had no proper shelter, and the elements were mixed with waste and flow into the tent.
“It seeps into our mats and us, and we wake up and find ourselves soaked in [garbage] She said.
Israel’s update attack has killed more than 600 Palestinians since Tuesday, and a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas collapsed.
Shadi al-Ashqar, a resident of Beit Lahiya, a small town in northern Gaza, fled south on foot with his wife and children – again not knowing where to find shelter.
“Even if all the damage around us is placed in our homes, we took it and did our best,” Al-Ashqar told El Saife on Friday.
“We’re scrambling now, and I don’t know where to go.”
Israeli Defense Secretary Israel Katz said Friday that the Army is putting all available pressure on Hamas to release the remaining hostages, including evacuating Gazas from the south and implementing a resettlement plan for U.S. President Donald Trump. In February, Trump called the enclave a “demolition site”, saying he wanted the United States to own the land and build it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” once he emptyed it.
Katz said Friday that the longer Hamas refuses to release the rest of the hostages, the more territory it will lose to Israel.”
Israeli forces have recaptured part of the Netzarim corridor, which opens the northern and southern parts of the south. It also resumed a blockade in northern Gaza in northern Gaza on Thursday, heading to the northern town of Beit Lahiya and the southern border city of Rafah.
Meanwhile, a lockdown on Gaza’s entry into Gaza has been around since March 2, causing prices for basic food and fuel to rise, forcing many to distribute their meals. It also cut off electricity supply to Gaza, and cut operations to provide clean drinking water to Palestinians at water desalination plants.
“There is no food. They hungry us, they replaced us, they closed the crossing point on us,” Umm Mahmoud Ghazal said on Thursday when he fled North Gaza.
“The most important thing is that they’re bombing us all night,” she said.
Israeli bombers destroyed most of the infrastructure and housing in the Gaza Strip, about 41 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide.
During the 17-month war, most of the Gaza population was displaced several times in the enclave.
Israeli military said late Thursday it had begun ground operations in the Shaboura area of Gaza’s southernmost Rafah, which is adjacent to the Egyptian border.
“The war is back, displacement and death are back, will we survive this round?” Samed Sami, 29, said he fled Shejaia to build a tent for his family in an open-air camp.
According to Israeli Tales (Israeli), thousands of Hamas-led gunmen attacked the Israeli community on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, and according to Israelis, 251 hostages were kidnapped to Gaza. 59 people are still in Gaza, with 24 of them being considered alive.
According to Palestinian health authorities, the Israeli campaign has killed more than 49,000 people, and thousands are believed to remain under rubble.
