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<h1 class="gmail-single_title">Displaced people of northern Gaza live a harsher Nakba</h1>
<p class="gmail-single_date">Thursday 14-May-2026</p>
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<p>GAZA, (PIC)</p>
<p>In Gaza, the Nakba is no longer a memory in which Palestinians recall
the stories of displacement in 1948, but has turned into a daily
reality lived by more than 1.5 million displaced people, amidst tents,
hunger, and fear, in light of a continuous war and siege that brought
back scenes of displacement with harsher and wider dimensions.</p>
<p>In the Sanabel camp for the displaced in the far northwest of the
Gaza Strip, worn-out tents spread over the sands of the coastal
Al-Sudaniya area, while residents face the summer heat and the lack of
basic life necessities, in a scene that reflects the extension of the
Palestinian tragedy across generations, coinciding with the 78th
anniversary of the Nakba.</p>
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<p class="gmail-has-vivid-red-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-a484c5615d437ae7018806d2bd503e21">A tragedy beyond the Nakba</p>
<p>Inside one of the tents, the displaced man from Beit Hanoun, Abdul
Karim Aqel, 52 years old, sits, recalling images of war, destruction,
and the loss of loved ones. He says that what Palestinians are living
today exceeds the traditional concept of the Nakba, describing what
happened as an unprecedented war of genocide.</p>
<p>Aqel believes that the war did not only target Gaza militarily, but
sought, with American support, to end the Palestinian cause and impose
forced displacement, adding that the steadfastness of the Palestinians
during the first months prevented the implementation of displacement
plans outside Palestine.</p>
<p>He describes the reality of displacement as a siege within a siege,
noting that the residents of the Strip were crammed into a narrow
geographical area on the sea coast, while bombing, starvation, and the
destruction of the components of life continue.</p>
<p>The man does not hide the scale of the psychological collapse
experienced by the displaced, saying that many have come to see death as
easier than the life of tents and deprivation, recalling scenes of the
famine that hit the Strip, and the accompanying unprecedented
humanitarian collapse.</p>
<p>The Israeli war of genocide on Gaza, which has been ongoing for two
years, has left more than 72,000 martyrs and more than 172,000 wounded,
most of them children and women, in addition to widespread destruction
that affected nearly 90% of the civilian infrastructure, according to
Palestinian data.</p>
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<p class="gmail-has-vivid-red-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-412e9947251d7fc95c556b7ec1d58b20">Struggle for survival</p>
<p>In a neighboring tent, Asmahan Khulaif, 61 years old, displaced from
Beit Lahia, tries to provide a narrow space for her grandchildren amidst
the sand, while she talks about the lack of security and the continued
bombing and the falling of victims on a daily basis.</p>
<p>She points with her hand to the worn-out roof of the tent, saying,
\u201cThe tents do not protect us from the heat of summer or the cold of
winter, and they do not protect us from bullets and shells.\u201d The elderly
woman recalls her previous life with regret, \u201cBefore the war, we had
houses to shelter us, and life despite its simplicity was beautiful, but
today we live in hell.\u201d</p>
<p>She describes life in the camp as a \u201cdaily struggle for survival,\u201d
adding, \u201cThere are no markets, schools, or clinics, as if we have
returned to the dark ages.\u201d</p>
<p>Khulaif believes that the current Nakba has canceled social
differences between people, explaining, \u201cIn the Nakba of 1948, the
conditions were not like now, we have all become in similar conditions,
social classes have melted away, and everyone has become in one crushed
class.\u201d</p>
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<p class="gmail-has-vivid-red-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-d19abfe9bde166cdc205198b2917e36d">Outside the scope of geography</p>
<p>As for Umm Alaa Salem Deeb, 53 years old, she says that what Gaza is
witnessing today exceeds everything she heard from the stories of
fathers and grandfathers about the Nakba of 1948, noting that the
displacement camp in which she lives is completely isolated from the
manifestations of life.</p>
<p>She explains that the area lacks transportation, markets, schools,
and medical services, adding that children have begun to pay a heavy
price for the war after being deprived of education and stability.</p>
<p>Umm Alaa recalls the moment of her displacement from her home under
bombardment during the first months of the war, confirming that she lost
most of her family members, including her daughter, while she still
lives with the effects of shock and loss.</p>
<p>Despite the ceasefire agreement announced in October 2025, Israeli
violations continue through daily shelling, the siege, and preventing
the entry of sufficient quantities of food, medicine, and shelter
materials, which has exacerbated the humanitarian catastrophe in the
Strip.</p>
<p>According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Israeli violations since
the start of the truce have resulted in the martyrdom of 856
Palestinians and the injury of 2,463 others, amidst continuous warnings
of the worsening famine and the collapse of health and humanitarian
conditions.</p>
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