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Homeless and hungry, Gaza residents fear a repeat of the 1948 catastrophe

2025-09-14 16:00:57Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Homeless and hungry, Gaza residents fear a repeat of the 1948 catastrophe
The catastrophe of 1948 returns, Palestinians are experiencing the second Nakba

On a warm September evening in 2023, the Abu Samra family in northern Gaza were gathered outside their home, the scent of mint wafting from the garden. As usual, the head of the family, Abdallah Abu Samra, recounted the story of his childhood, when he was just 10 years old and was expelled from his home village to what is now Israel during the Nakba of 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians became refugees.

But just a few weeks later, after the Hamas attack of October 7 and the launch of Israel's war in Gaza, the memory of the Nakba took on a new meaning, another wave of mass displacement, bombing, and extreme hunger, which many Palestinians today call the "new Nakba."

90% of the population displaced

Since October 2023, nearly 2 million residents, or about 90% of Gaza's population, have been displaced several times, according to the UN. While the Israeli Defense Ministry has made plans to push residents towards the border with Egypt, legal experts warn that this would constitute a violation of international law and a permanent demographic change, which many describe as ethnic cleansing.

Homeless and hungry, Gaza residents fear a repeat of the 1948 catastrophe

Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, has stated that Israel's displacement of civilians and destruction of neighborhoods appears to be a plan towards permanent change in Gaza.

Some Israeli ministers have said it openly.

Financier Bezalel Smotrich has stated that they are destroying everything that is left of Gaza.

"We are occupying, we are clearing, and we will stay there until Hamas is destroyed," he said.

Meanwhile, Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter has spoken about the "Nakba of Gaza 2023."

The Abu Samra family, a life of displacement

For the Abu Samra family, the war began with a wave of bombings that forced them to flee their home. In less than two years, the family moved several times, was separated, and lost several members to Israeli attacks.

Today, Abdallah Abu Samra, 87 years old and sick, lives in a makeshift tent in southern Gaza.

Homeless and hungry, Gaza residents fear a repeat of the 1948 catastrophe

"I always think, talk and dream about returning home," he says, even though he knows that only ruins remain there now.

His grandchildren also carry this feeling. Many of them still hold the keys to the destroyed houses, just like their grandparents did since 1948.

“Will these keys become symbolic keys like those of the first Nakba?” his daughter, Abeer, asks sadly.

Gaza destroyed, return impossible

According to the World Bank, almost 80% of buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, and reconstruction could take up to 80 years. Many residents who dared to return during a brief ceasefire found only ruins.

Homeless and hungry, Gaza residents fear a repeat of the 1948 catastrophe
Photo from the displacement of Palestinians, 1948

Some of Abu Samra's family members managed to flee to Egypt, paying over $5,000 each.

But the head of the family refused: "It's enough for me that I was displaced during my childhood. I'm not leaving Gaza again!"

In the camp where he lives today, amidst hunger and disease, he hopes to one day set up at least one tent near the ruins of his home in the north.

"I won't leave Gaza for anything, I've suffered enough!"/ New York Times

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