On video: Evacuees surround Gaza at the Joe Hotel, Tel Aviv, October 10, 2023/Walla system!
Six months have passed since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, and the northern front is far from quiet either. Even six months later - and still tens of thousands from the south and the north are still displaced from their homes and living in hotels and guesthouses. It is already difficult for the evacuated residents and some of them do not intend to return until they feel that there is real security.
Mittal Cohen was evacuated from Sderot along with her husband and four children. They live in a hotel in Eilat while the daughter is studying for high school graduation in Sderot. As a result, the family had to split up so that at any given moment, one of the parents is in Sderot some days of the week. "It's not easy to be separated from home for more than six months, the feelings are very mixed," Mittal tells Walla!. "The hotel and the service in it (Magic Palace Eilat) are amazing and they are very considerate and even offered us to do the Passover seder with the staff and management because they already see us as permanent residents, and still, it's really not a vacation."
Nahorai Cohen, Mittal's son, is trying to study at the hotel/courtesy of those photographed
Cohen adds that the family has great difficulty being far from the city that the family loves so much. "It's not easy to be closed in a room without space to move around," she emphasizes. "I want to return home to cook and move. Just move. We miss the routine. Everyone in the house has a corner that is a refuge for them. We would really like to return to the amazing community in Sderot. We miss family and friends, but unfortunately two of my children suffer from real anxiety and staying in Sderot is not Doing them good."
During the war, the Cohen family returned to Sderot for a week, but the trauma is still there. "My son dreamed of terrorists with three heads. He clung to the MMD and refused to leave the house. So my husband and I have no choice but to be on the Eilat-Sderot line all the time."
For Yehudit Dahan, also a resident of Sderot, she prefers to stay at the hotel despite the difficulty of not being home for six months. "We are still traumatized," she tells Walla!." My husband and I have been in a hotel in Eilat for six months. We have been in hotels in the Dead Sea before. We don't have a sense of security to return to Sderot. We don't have the strength for the alarms and noises of war. When the situation calms down - we will return to Sderot."
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Judith and Haim Dahan from Sderot/courtesy of those photographed
The situation is also similar for the displaced persons from the north of the country. "Everything is falling apart and we have lost a sense of stability and security," said painfully Anat Biton, a member of Moshav Avivim, whose residents were evacuated from their homes on the border with Lebanon about six months ago. Anat, married and mother of four children aged 8-25, lives with her family in a hotel in Tiberias. Her husband and eldest daughter serve in the moshav's standby class and are most of the time in the spring.
She defines life in a hotel room as living in a kind of warehouse. "It's very difficult, besides the fact that we are crammed into a room and are in overcrowded conditions, in a hotel there is a feeling of living in a pressure cooker and that we lose our balance. It is especially difficult for children who have lost a sense of stability and routine and function without a framework," she says.
The equipment of the Beaton family/Courtesy of those photographed
According to her, the feeling of living in the hotel is that "there is nothing to get up in the morning for, because there is no work, no routine, no quiet and familiar corner, and to this is also added financial pressure that is increasing. And if that is not enough, our house in the spring is also damaged by gunfire and our chicken coop We are affected by an illness. We have to constantly gather strength and hope that a ray of light will come and it's hard to live like this, everything is falling apart for us and it seems that the world around us is as usual and life goes on."
Anat seeks to repel the feeling, which for some is a common feeling, that a hotel is a treat. "There is a feeling that there is not so much patience with us and it is unpleasant to feel as if we are doing you a favor. We will never be able to feel that this is your home. Some people may think that the evacuees in the hotels are spoiled and that they have no right to complain, but let them understand that life here is very far from what is known as life at home. I still hold out hope that it will change soon and that stability will return to our lives. I only hope that the state will not abandon us and forget us," she concluded.
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