Watan-“With neither a jacket nor trousers on me, I feel detached from people,” described a Palestinian displaced person along with his family inside a tent at one of the shelter centers in the southern Gaza Strip. This displacement is a result of the policy of forced displacement under the threat of Israeli occupation during its ongoing war on Gaza.
Families of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, from the northern region to the city of Gaza, heading towards the southern Gaza Strip, are facing hardship and harsh conditions after being notified by the Israeli occupation to leave their homes, warning of the bombing of their houses if they choose to stay.
“No jacket, no trousers with me”
In a video posted by Al Jazeera Palestine on its (X) platform, a journalist inquired, in the Palestinian dialect, of a displaced Palestinian, ‘Why aren’t you wearing a jacket? Aren’t you cold?’ To which he responded, ‘I swear, I have neither a jacket nor trousers… I feel detached from people.’
Meanwhile, a Palestinian woman responded to a journalist’s question about their preparedness for the winter after being displaced to shelter centers due to the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 41st consecutive day.
The Palestinian woman sitting inside her tent at one of the displaced shelters expresses, “I swear, we’re not ready to deceive you. If we say we’re ready, it’s not true. There’s no structure, no furniture; how can it be ready? Those who bomb a house with its furnishings… it’s good that people have come out alive from their homes.”
Forced displacement in Gaza
According to statistics from the Government Media Office in Gaza, over one and a half million Palestinians have been displaced from the northern regions and the city of Gaza towards the southern part of the strip. This is a result of the policy of forced displacement due to the continued indiscriminate bombing of citizens’ homes by the Israeli occupation forces, coupled with warnings to evacuate and threats of bombing for those who remain.
The Israeli occupation has committed more than 1,160 massacres against civilians, including children, women, and the elderly, in various locations in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza on October 7 of last year.
More than 11,500 Palestinian citizens, predominantly civilians at a rate exceeding 70%, have lost their lives, and around 29,000 others have sustained various injuries in the Israeli war on Gaza, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health as of the writing of this report.
