Displaced #Gazans mass at #Israeli barrier waiting to reach north
Issued on: 26/01/2025
#Nuseirat (#PalestinianTerritories) (AFP) – A vast crowd of Gazans massed near an Israeli military barrier preventing them from heading to their homes in the north on Sunday amid a row
"Aerial footage from AFPTV showed the crowd fanning out for hundreds of metres from a junction on a coastal road in the Nuseirat area and spilling onto a nearby beach.
"Dotted among the crowd were water tankers, ambulances, donkey carts, TV crews and their vehicles, and dozens of tents in which displaced Gazans sat and waited for permission to continue their journey.
"AFP journalists at the scene said the mass of people stretched for three kilometres (1.9 miles) along Al-Rashid Road, with Gaza police preventing civilians from getting close to the Israelis, whose jets and drones flew overhead.
"Dozens of displaced people camped in the garden of a bombed-out villa, some of them milling around in its empty swimming pool.
"Whole families sat on the side of the road waiting for news, their belongings bundled up in blankets or crammed into overstuffed backpacks.
"Saeed Abu Sharia, 49, said he arrived on Saturday night and slept outside while his wife, mother and children stayed in his car for warmth.
"'I burned the tent last night because it was a symbol of misery and humiliation,' he said.
"Fifty of his relatives were killed in the 15-month war, said Abu Sharia, whose home was also destroyed. between Hamas and Israel over the terms of their ceasefire deal."
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