Despite the continued state of war and the extensive damage to property caused by the attacks, Palestinian residents were able to return to areas in northern Gaza to visit their destroyed homes. "Everything was bombed, but we have to go back," said a local resident, adding that about 70 families have returned to visit the areas they left at the beginning of the war. "Even if a person finds only one room that survived from the house that was bombed, he will return and sit in it. It's better than sitting in the streets and tents."
In Beit Lahia and other areas in the northern Gaza Strip, a lively movement of residents, families and children was seen trying to make their way through the ruins of the damaged neighborhoods. "The residents of places in this area from which the army has begun to withdraw, come looking for their homes, this is our homeland. What danger could there be more than what we have already experienced?" the resident wondered.
Northward movement was made possible by changes in the nature of the fighting in the northern Gaza Strip. A video was posted on social networks showing residents leaving their homes and wandering the streets of one of the markets in the northern Gaza Strip in search of groceries and food, in an attempt to return to a kind of routine in the shadow of the ongoing war.
More updates from Gaza
- Clashes were reported in the central Gaza Strip and intensive artillery fire in Khan Yunis, alongside fighting on the ground and military forces to intensify the ground advance. One report reported that the bomb targeted two vehicles south of Khan Yunis. Hamas' military-terrorist wing announced that "their fighters detonated IEDs." It should be noted that such messages are published daily by the organization, and some of them are used for purposes of intimidation and psychological warfare. In another announcement, Hamas claimed that it had fired a ground-to-air missile at an aircraft.
Hamas Civil Guard forces in Gaza continued to rescue casualties and removed 20 bodies from the rubble following an attack on a house in the Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City. Fatalities and wounded were evacuated to Biah Kamal 'Adwan in the northern Gaza Strip after an attack carried out in the Beit Lahia area. Local sources in the Gaza Strip reported that airstrikes had been carried out in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City. Gunfire was heard in Deir al-Balah. According to several reports, there was also a bombing in a house near the Rafah crossing. The casualties were evacuated to the European hospital in the Gaza Strip.
- Hamas Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said on Saturday that Rafah's infrastructure and medical services were "fragile" and could not meet the needs of one million and 300 hundred displaced persons. "The occupation carried out 12 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing 135 people and wounding 312 during the past 24 hours," he said. According to the ministry, the death toll in Gaza is approaching 60,<>, and the number of wounded has exceeded <>,<>.
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