While the four-day truce in Gaza may have brought some relief for the 2.3 million people living in the besieged enclave, resident Tala Herzallah says she is not rejoicing, Al Jazeera’s Usaid Siddiqui reports.
“I don’t have any feelings about it [truce] … we are still displaced,” she told the news outlet. Her family had moved south after Israeli orders to evacuate the north in the early days of the war.
“On the first day [of the truce] we found out that Israeli forces had destroyed our home in the north. It’s just rubble now, and we don’t have a place to go back to,” she said. “It’s just the worst.”
The 21-year-old college student said the unfortunate news was relayed to her through neighbours who decided to stay back in northern Gaza.
She says many Palestinians are hoping to go back, not only to see if their homes are still standing but to also retrieve their “loved ones from under the rubble … to bury them”.
