For two years, Ismail Baba dreamed of a ceasefire. The father of 4 had been displaced from 11 homes during the war in Gaza and was struggling to find enough food for his children amid the shared hunger crisis.
When the termination was announced last week, Dad thought he could finally rest. Although his home was still suffering from chaos, at least he knew his family would not be impressed by an Israeli bomb.
The temporary peace, however, was ended on Sunday morning by a wave of Israeli strikes in Gaza, after Israel said the army had targeted its forces in southern Gaza.
“I felt the end of the false sense of security we were clinging to. We had started to move freely between areas again, and now we are in the face of fear and caution,” said this 48-year-old child, and now we are in the face, “said this 48-year-old child, and now we are from Beit Lahiya in North Gaza.
Nine days into the cease-fire, Palestinians in Gaza are increasingly worried that the fragile foothold could collapse and full-scale civil war will resume. They have been here before; In March The elimination ended after Israel resumed the bombing and refused to submit to the second phase of the elimination of the limitation.
There are similarities with the previous march. Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of the phase-out of the task of keeping money for the return of Israeli hostages, but deep disagreements remain over the second phase of the written plan.
On Sunday, residents wondered if there was even an end to it. Israel has launched a wave of airstrikes targeting southern, northern and central Gaza in what it says is a response to attacks by its own forces.
“I’m afraid that the trader could have fallen at any time, especially now. It has since started to put out the fire without any attack or injury.
In Gaza City on Saturday, a funeral was held for the victims of the Israeli strike the previous day. A car carrying a family trying to visit their home in Gaza City veered over the withdrawal line that marks where Israeli forces are still active in Gaza. Israeli tanks fired two shells at the car, killing 11 members of the Abu Shabaan family, including seven children.
“Shreds, shreds, are on the lines. All of them. They are being demolished. I don’t know if I want to plan for my son or my daughter,” my father-in-law Shaban told Al Jazeera while reading his family’s funeral.
The Israeli army still occupies about 50% of Gaza, displaying maps with a yellow line showing where civilians can enter the first phase of the ceasefire. Defense officials say there is no way for people to know when they are crossing the line.
Israeli authorities have since said they will mark the body with a large concrete block. “The trail is fragile, the trail is on paper. On the ground, we die. This is real.
Despite the deepest day of violence, Palestinians are still clinging to hope that the two sides can work out a compromise and that a ceasefire can hold. Returning to Israel the bomb blast just after a moment of relief was a terrible night for them to imagine.
“I hope that the renunciation of fire continues, and that our social, economic and political life improves so that one day we can return to the world of disaster, but it will only happen if the limit continues. This can happen again.
