When she left her home in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, in May with her family, Maisara Mukhaimar, a researcher at the Palestinian Authority’s National Agricultural Research Center, did not take blankets with her. He was thinking of going into exile for a month or two to escape the Israeli offensive hitting the south of the enclave. He had only brought some warm clothes, because this former doctoral student in biology at the Paris-Sud University was then planning to leave the enclave for France. A project aborted in June when Israel took full control of the border between Gaza and Egypt, depriving the enclave of all contact with the outside world.
Maisara Mukhaimar has since found refuge in a tent in Deir Al-Balah, in the center of the strip, relatively safe from the attacks that destroyed 60% of the buildings in the territory. But a few days ago, when it started to rain, he started looking to rent a small house. Useless effort: the rents were too expensive. Preparations for a second winter of war in Gaza occupy the days. As fuel becomes increasingly difficult to find, Gazans are burning the doors of their homes to keep warm. And with prices rising, hunger is spreading. On Friday, November 29, a woman and two girls were killed in a stampede outside a bakery in Deir Al-Balah.
However, Maisara Mukhaimar welcomes the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, which came into effect on November 27 in Lebanon: “I don’t want others to live in the same conditions as us. In Gaza, every day, every hour, people die because of war or humanitarian catastrophe. This ceasefire is a good thing and I hope it happens to us too. »
“Great sympathy for Lebanon”
Gazans did not fail to notice Hezbollah’s concessions. The Lebanese movement, which attacked Israel on October 8, 2023, “in solidarity with the Palestinians”After the massacre carried out by Hamas the day before in Israel, it stated that it would end its offensive when the Jewish State ceased its deadly attacks in the Gaza Strip, which caused more than 44,000 victims, according to data from the Hamas Ministry. Health, corroborated by the UN. But the Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu managed to force Hezbollah’s intervention, disconnecting the two conflicts. The agreement gives Hezbollah sixty days to withdraw its forces about twenty kilometers from the border. At the same time, Israeli troops will have to evacuate their positions in the south of the country and reserve the right to retaliate in case of violation of the ceasefire agreement.
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