100 tonnes of aid pile up as Egypt and Israel keep the border closed
IN JUST NINE days of war Hassan Abu Selmiyeh has already been displaced three times. First he moved to his brother’s house in Shati, a crowded refugee camp by the sea in northern Gaza. When that area felt unsafe he left for his daughter’s place inland. Then, on October 13th, he heard that Israel had called on the entire population of northern Gaza, more than 1m people, to flee south . He thought it was a rumour—until he saw his neighbours start to leave.
“You can barely walk between the different buildings.” Untold numbers have now moved south. Some piled onto the beds of trucks or into carts pulled by horses and donkeys. Others walked. The flight evoked memories of the nakba , the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians that accompanied the founding of Israel in 1948. Several people in Gaza say that Hamas has tried to deter civilians from fleeing south, though others say they faced no opposition from the group.
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