[News] Messages of resilience on the walls of destroyed homes in Gaza

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Messages of resilience on the walls of destroyed homes in Gaza

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GAZA, (PIC)

“We promise we will rebuild them.” These words were written by a
Palestinian on the walls of a house demolished by Israeli airstrikes in
northern Gaza, sending a message of resilience and defiance against the
occupation, which has been trying to empty the region of its inhabitants
for the past 28 days.

The drawings and writings on the walls have become a means of expressing
perseverance, resistance, and defiance against the occupation in northern
Gaza, which is facing one of the fiercest campaigns of Israeli ethnic
cleansing since October 5.

On the wall of one home, a Palestinian artist painted a picture of a
Palestinian woman holding her child around a pool of blood, with destroyed
houses in the background, along with the words in English: “Stop the war.”

“We remain and will not leave,” said Amer Khalil to the Palestinian
Information Center: “The occupation is trying to kill us and displace us,
and we are telling it through all means, including these words and
drawings, that we are staying and will not leave. We are the rightful
owners of the land, and we will rebuild our homes.”

On the walls of another house, someone wrote, “My home, even if you destroy
it, I will not leave,” to express the Palestinians’ determination to stay
despite the genocide and brutal massacres being carried out by the Israeli
occupation forces for the past 28 days, aiming to displace the residents
and turn northern Gaza into a buffer zone.

On one of the mosques, someone wrote, “Gaza will remain ours, even if the
whole world fails us.”


*Eviction orders*During the past month, the occupation forces issued five
eviction orders, the latest on Friday morning, targeting citizens in
northern Gaza. They committed dozens of massacres in homes and shelters,
killing more than 1,200 Palestinians and injuring over 2,000 others.

Activists and local media circulated a video showing how the walls of
destroyed homes in northern Gaza have turned into murals of resilience;
murals standing against the siege and the Israeli military operation.

The phrases and drawings on the walls varied between rejecting forced
displacement and calls to stop the war on Gaza. Among the most prominent
phrases were: “Stop the war,” “Freedom for Palestine,” “Tomorrow we will
rebuild it,” “Even the birds in Gaza have wings and do not migrate,” “My
son is still under the rubble,” “Sufficient for us is Allah, and He is the
best disposer of affairs,” “I will not leave,” and “We remain like thyme
and olives.”

Since October 5, the Israeli army has begun unprecedented bombing
operations on the Jabalia camp, town, and large areas in northern Gaza,
before invading it the next day, warning of its intention to implement the
Generals’ Plan to empty the region.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with absolute American support, has been
waging war on Gaza, resulting in over 144,000 Palestinian martyrs and
injured, most of whom are children and women, and more than 10,000 missing,
amid massive destruction and famine that has killed dozens of children and
the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
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