The Palestinians return to the destroyed homes in northern Gaza with a ceasefire on “from a difficult place to another”

The United Nations estimates that about 200,000 displaced Palestinians have returned to the broken northern part Gaza Strip Since Israel Permeate on monday. The CBS News in Gaza continued one man among the fans back to the homeland, to find out the remainder of his life before the war.

Men, women, children, and even entire families set out as soon as the Israeli army withdrew its forces and opened the road from north to south along the Mediterranean coast in Gaza for the first time in more than a year.

Since Monday, the Sahel Road has been a slow river for the people who were moving, and most of them are not sure of the remaining 15 months of bombing and war in their neighborhoods.

While the displaced returned to the north, carrying what they could be able to property, Hamas fighters were watching, and they were on a magic attack.

It was their terrorist attack on Israel that sparked the devastating war. But their visual presence throughout Gaza also shows that despite Israel’s declared goal of destroying the group with its counter -attacks, Hamas is still there, but it is responsible.

Among the thousands walking on the dusty coast road on Monday, Monzer Al -Sharafi, who spent months in a tent with many members of his family.

“Life in the tent is unbearable. It is painful and sad.” “In the summer, we bake as in the oven, and in the winter, we feel that we are in the freezer.”

However, when his loved ones left, Al -Sharafi was worried.

“I will verify what is going on and go back,” he said. “It is a long time, everything will be fine.”

He said: “They are mixed feelings, but I am dancing with joy. I wonder whether my house is still in place. I will meet my father there. I did not see them for 15 months. He was in the south and they were in the north.”

He met some old friends along the way, and all of them seemed amazed and happy to find themselves and each other alive.

But the joy of walking for three hours was diluted due to the destruction throughout Al -Sharafi along the coast road. He did nothing to reduce anxiety about what was waiting at the end of the trip.

“What is all this destruction? Gaza is no longer beautiful to us. The Israeli Defense Army destroyed everything … they destroyed trees, buildings and humans,” he told CBS News. “I see the destruction everywhere I look at it. I cannot get to know the streets and my way in Gaza. I feel I am foreign. I seem to have left Gaza for 15 years, not 15 months.”

In the end, he reached his old neighborhood in the city of Gabalia. He bowed to kiss the earth, but Al -Sharafi said he could not believe his eyes on the level of destruction.

However, he found his parents alive, as well as it can be expected. It was his father who delivered the intestine, when Al -Sharafi said he wanted to go and find his apartment building.

His father told him: “He has been completely settled, on the ground now.”

“It doesn’t matter, you are safe!” Condolences of his mother.

He told CBS News: “This is where I spent my childhood and my life,” and told CBS News, looking at the place where the house was. Nothing left almost.

“This is my arrangement and this is a jacket. This is my children’s bag.”

“This is my daughter’s bear,” he said. “I lost all my memories. My house has gone, my family’s photos were born. We no longer have a house anymore.”

Like hundreds of thousands of other returnees in Gaza, the future is for Al -Sharafi, even if it is fragile The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas Is a contract, completely uncertain. But he said that he was determined to rebuild his life, with his family, where they always called him home.

“I left my family in the tent because I was sure that the journey from south to north would be painful,” he said. “I was hoping to find at least a room that is still standing. Unfortunately, they are in a tent there, and I will bring them to another tent. I will bring them from a difficult place to another. I will take my daughter Lulu Teddy Bear.

Then, through tears and despair, shine the elasticity of Al -Sharafi.

“We will rebuild our house again. We will rebuild it even if they destroy it a million times. This is our land, and it is our soil.”