Netanyahu's plan to deprive and manage the gas will fail again | Israel-Palestinian conflict

From October 2023 to January 2025, Benjamin Netanyahu managed to displace about 1.9 million Palestinians – almost the entire population of Gaza. He must be proud. The Israeli Prime Minister can now go down to the Guinness Book of Records as the man who with one hand dispels the most people in the smallest territory.

I myself am one of those 1.9 million. I was displaced twice: for the first time at the beginning of the genocidal war and then a year later.

Many Palestinian families have been displaced repeatedly, about 10 or more times.

It was a clear strategy of Netanyahu to separate us. The North was cut from the south. The Northerners were forcibly expelled south. Then the Southerners and the others were forced to move to the center.

But that wasn't enough for him. The Israeli Prime Minister has authorized a large-scale campaign to delete housing through the Gaza Strip, especially north and south. He also ordered the blocking of humanitarian aid to starve us.

According to the service of the United Nations organization for the coordination of humanitarian cases, 92 percent of homes in the Gaza Strip or about 436,000 structures have been destroyed or damaged as a result of Israeli aggression. According to the Human Rights Center, Al Mezan, the Israeli army has not stopped demolishing the homes in Rafa throughout the cessation of fire.

According to the World Food Program, more than 2 million people have been completely dependent on food assistance as of January, and hundreds of thousands face “catastrophic levels of nutritional uncertainty”.

Now Netanyahu has ordered all the humanitarian aid to be cut again and plans to force the Palestinians from north to south again.

Its purpose is clear: to tear the communities, to separate and weaken us, to turn us against each other through exceptional deprivation. But his strategy has failed in the last 16 months and will fail again.

In front of a genocidal war, Gaza people show great solidarity with each other. Anyone who has a home will open it to shelter the displaced, including their families, friends, neighbors and even strangers. Whoever has some food would also share.

When we were siege in our neighborhood, Sheikh Radvan, in December 2023, we threw bottles of water through the windows of his neighbor and his daughter to make sure they had something to drink. We also provided food to other people who needed it by throwing it over the wall, separating our home from other homes.

During our second displacement, my father's friend opened his home for us south and we stayed there for four months.

On January 15, when the fire was announced, the Gaza people won against Netanyahu and his strategy for “separation and governance”. Four days later, some of Rafa's dispatchers managed to go back.

Then on January 27 came the Big Return. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians headed north.

For the greater part of the displaced “return”, it meant to discover homelessness. People have traveled long distance on foot just to find their houses damaged or destroyed. The word we use to describe destroyed homes in Gaza at the moment is a cookie – a home broken like a cookie.

The homeless returns had few opportunities: to go to schools turned into shelters, to place a tent in open spaces, or to the ruins of their homes, or to try to repair any standing walls in living space.

Families suffer from heavy rain, high wind and cold. Many, while cleaning, repairing or searching in the rubble to find their belongings, have found the bodies of loved ones and dig them to bury them.

But even in the harsh reality of homelessness, the Palestinians still find solidarity.

People share what they have about food, water and even space in overcrowded tents. Neighbors work together to repair broken walls and roofs. Some with half -time houses offer shelters to the needy. Volunteers have initiated campaigns to distribute food and clothing in schools, shelters and tent camps.

Some young people gather daily to cook in municipal kitchens, ensuring that no one is left hungry. People provide emotional support through WhatsApp groups and mental health meetings. At night, families gather to share stories and comfort themselves to reduce loneliness.

The men in our neighborhood made a schedule to help each other with shelters in damaged houses. They helped us put tarpaulins and secure them with pillars to the ground and repair the walls in our damaged home. We have helped others by providing electricity to power the equipment through our barely functioning solar panel.

The “home” is now what most people in Gaza are longing for. This is supposed to be a warm place of sweet memories that you can escape when the world becomes too much to bear. It is not supposed to be a tent, school or a destroyed house.

But the Palestinians were here before. Three -quarters of Gaza's population are refugees or descendants of refugees who have lost their homes in Nakba. My own ancestors were expelled from their homes in the city of Al-Maddzval.

What Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders like him do not seem to understand that Gaza is not just a place for us, but our home.

However, many times Israel interrupts the help and attacks, destroying homes and displacing people, we will restore not by magic, but by our own solidarity, sustainability and world support.

The unity, which is passed down from generation to generation, has built a community that refuses to be erased. This will help the gas to rise again.

The anger expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazee's editorial position.