Khan Younis: ‘Nothing is left’
While war-displaced Palestinians are returning in droves to northern Gaza, in the south people picked their way through the dusty moonscape that was once Gaza’s second largest city Khan Younis, which Israeli forces razed earlier this year.
A middle-aged man, Ahmed al-Brim, pushed a bicycle with bundles of scrap timber tied to the front and back. His family will need the firewood to cook. It was all they had been able to recover from the ruins of their home.
“We went to our area. It was exterminated. We don’t know where we will go after that,” he said. “We couldn’t get the furniture or clothes, or anything, not even winter clothes. Nothing is left.”
Thousands of displaced Palestinians began flocking towards their abandoned homes after a US-brokered ceasefire took effect on Friday and Israeli troops began pulling back from parts of Gaza.
Bodies of 7 people recovered from Gaza’s Netzarim
The bodies of seven Palestinians have been recovered from the Netzarim area in central Gaza, a hospital source tells Al Jazeera.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 17 people have been killed and 71 wounded in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours.
