七天没有轰炸之后,加沙地带的巴勒斯坦人在12月1日清晨被熟悉的空袭声惊醒。
“战争又回来了,”20岁的工科学生Shaimaa Ahmed告诉ABC新闻。
“我们被枪声惊醒。船舶火灾。坦克开火。他们从四面八方开火。艾哈迈德说,她已经在10月31日遵照以色列撤离加沙北部的命令逃离了自己的家。“我感觉我又要窒息了。”
以色列上周恢复了在加沙的报复性军事行动,此前作为与哈马斯更广泛的人质-囚犯交换的一部分,临时停火破裂。随着数千人被迫再次逃离,一些巴勒斯坦人告诉美国广播公司新闻,战争以前所未有的速度和强度重新开始。
周日新的疏散命令让数千人面临另一次流离失所,绝望地寻找安全。联合国近东巴勒斯坦难民救济和工程处(Relief and Works Agency)事务主任托马斯·怀特(Thomas White)在x上写道:“通往南部拉法(与埃及接壤)的道路被汽车和驴车堵塞,车上挤满了人和他们微薄的财产。”
根据加沙哈马斯运营的卫生部的数据,近两个月来,以色列-哈马斯战争已导致加沙地带至少15,899人死亡,42,000人受伤。据以色列国防军称,在以色列,至少有1200人被杀,6900人受伤,136名以色列人质仍在加沙。
随着以色列国防军在加沙南部推进地面行动,以色列少将丹尼尔·哈加里称之为“我们与哈马斯战争的新阶段”,巴勒斯坦人说,没有地方可以安全。据近东救济工程处称,目前约有190万人流离失所,正在穿越加沙地带。
“下一步是什么?是西奈还是天堂?我不知道,”21岁的Tala Herzallah告诉ABC新闻,她准备周六再次逃离,几周前她已经撤离了加沙城的家。
周末,以色列国防军在Khan Younis散发传单,警告人们离开该地区,QR码地图显示以色列国防军指定的安全区。
“我们希望平民不要在我们战斗的地区,”以色列中校乔纳森·康里库斯周一告诉美国广播公司新闻。“我们想把我们的火力集中在哈马斯身上,而且只针对哈马斯。”
“汗尤尼斯之后去哪里?只有一个地方,那就是拉法,它不可能容纳200万人,”24岁的Younes El-Hallaq告诉ABC新闻。"更重要的是,拉法本身也成了目标."
根据哈马斯控制的加沙卫生部统计,在停火结束后的四天里,746人在袭击中丧生,拉法也有受害者。
“即使在人们被迫逃离的拉法,空袭的声音也不时出现,”怀特在X周一写道。
虽然许多人在周末已经搬迁,但其他人决定留在他们选择的地方,或者因为疾病、残疾或缺乏住宿和交通选择而被迫这样做。
2023年12月4日,加沙汗尤尼斯,人们在收集在空袭中丧生的巴勒斯坦人的尸体时哀悼。
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“自战争开始以来,我已经流离失所三次,现在我可能会去另一个地方,”来自汗尤尼斯北部Al-Qarara镇的51岁的Rasmiya Rabie告诉ABC新闻。
Rabie说,她的家人接到许多来自以色列军队的电话,告诉他们转移到不同的地区。“我们人数众多,我们不能再次流离失所,”她说。
然后,两天前,一夜的猛烈轰炸改变了他们的想法。
“这非常困难,这就是我们第三次考虑转会的原因。现在我正试图找到一个地方去,”拉比说。
43岁的尼玛·阿舒尔(Nima Ashour)有一个75岁的父亲和一个72岁的母亲,还有两个年幼的孩子要照顾,她说即使她想离开,她也不能离开。两周前从Al Rantisi儿科医院撤离后,她的家人也没有燃料和钱了。作为一名儿科协调员,阿舒尔在医院照顾从新生儿到12岁的癌症患者。
“我们该怎么办?我们什么都不会做。我的家人决定住在我们家,”阿舒尔告诉美国广播公司新闻。
“即使你搬家,我们也不相信我们会安全。这与我们在加沙和现在在汗尤尼斯面临的情况相同。当然,如果我们搬到任何地方,我们都会遭到同样的破坏,同样的轰炸,同样的袭击。最后,我们必须面对我们的命运,”阿舒尔说。
大赦国际、救助儿童会和无国界医生组织的代表告诉ABC新闻,随着轰炸的报复,恐惧和失败的感觉在加沙地带广泛蔓延,那里严重的人道主义危机正在日益恶化。
停火结束后,特拉维夫也发生了自10月7日以来的第一次反政府抗议活动《纽约时报》的报道声称以色列在恐怖袭击前一年多就部分了解哈马斯10月7日袭击的计划,但将其视为愿望。
“在过去的57天里,我们看到政府一直在做与他们需要做的完全相反的事情,”反对以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡的抗议活动的组织者摩西·拉德曼告诉美国广播公司新闻。
“我们明白这将是一场长期的战争,所以我们现在必须这样做,因为我们不抗议的每一周,以色列对其公民越来越没有吸引力,”他补充说。
'It’s worse than before the truce': Strikes in Gaza resume at intensified pace, Palestinians say
After seven days without bombardments, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip woke up to the familiar sound of airstrikes in the early morning of Dec. 1.
"The war is back," Shaimaa Ahmed, a 20-year-old engineering student, told ABC News.
"We woke up to the sound of gunfire. Ship fire. Tank fire. They're firing from everywhere. It's continuous and strong," Ahmed, who had already fled her house on Oct. 31 following the orders of Israel to evacuate northern Gaza, said. "I feel like I'm being suffocated again."
Israel resumed its retaliatory military operations in Gaza last week after the collapse of a temporary cease-fire as part of a broader hostage-prisoner exchange with Hamas. With thousands forced to flee again, some Palestinians told ABC News the war has resumed at an unprecedented pace and intensity.
New evacuation orders on Sunday left thousands to face another displacement in a desperate search for safety. "The roads leading south towards Rafah [on the border with Egypt] are clogged with cars and donkey carts packed with people and their meager possessions," the Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency Affairs Thomas White wrote on X.
Almost two months in, the Israel-Hamas war has left at least 15,899 killed and 42,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run Ministry of Health. In Israel, at least 1,200 have been killed and 6,900 injured, with 136 Israeli hostages still in Gaza, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
As the IDF moves forward with a ground operation in southern Gaza in what Israeli Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari defined "a new phase in our war against Hamas," Palestinians said there is nowhere to go for safety. Some 1.9 million are currently displaced and moving across the Strip, according to UNRWA.
"What's the next step? Is it Sinai or is it heaven? I have no idea," 21-year-old Tala Herzallah told ABC News as she prepared to flee again on Saturday, after having evacuated her home in Gaza City a few weeks ago.
The IDF leaflets dropped in the Khan Younis during the weekend that warned people to leave the area and a QR code map showed the zones designated as safe by the IDF.
“We want civilians not to be in the area where we are fighting,” Israeli Lt. Col Jonathan Conricus told ABC News Monday. “We want to focus our firepower on Hamas and Hamas only.”
"Where to go after Khan Younis? There is only one place and it's Rafah and it cannot include 2 million people," 24-year-old Younes El-Hallaq told ABC News. "And more importantly, Rafah itself is being targeted."
In the four days following the end of the cease-fire, 746 have been killed in the strikes, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, with victims in Rafah, too.
"Even in Rafah where people are being forced to flee the sound of airstrikes punctuate the day," White wrote on X Monday.
While many have relocated over the weekend, others have decided to stay where they are either by choice or forced to do so by illnesses, disabilities or lack of accommodation and transport options.
"Since the beginning of the war, I have been displaced three times, and now I may go to another place," Rasmiya Rabie, 51, from the town of Al-Qarara, north of Khan Yunis, told ABC News.
Rabie said her family received many calls from the Israeli army telling them to move to different areas. "We are a large number and we cannot displace again," she said.
Then, two days ago, a night of severe bombardment changed their mind.
"It was very difficult and that's why we thought about moving for the third time. Now I am trying to find a place to go to," Rabie said.
With a 75-year-old father and a 72-year-old mother, as well as two young children to care for, Nima Ashour, 43, said she could not leave even if she wanted to. Her family is also out of fuel and money, having evacuated from Al Rantisi Pediatric hospital two weeks ago. Ashour was in the hospital caring for cancer patients from newborns to 12 years old as a pediatric coordinator.
"What will we do? We will not do anything. My family has decided to stay at our place," Ashour told ABC News.
"Even if you move, we do not believe that we are going to be safe. It's the same situation we have faced in Gaza and now in Khan Younis. And for sure if we move anywhere, we'll have the same destruction, the same bombing, the same targeting. At last, we have to face our destiny," Ashour said.
With the reprisal of the bombing, a sense of fear and defeat has spread widely across the strip, where a severe humanitarian crisis is worsening by the day, representatives of Amnesty International, Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders told ABC News.
The aftermath of the end of the cease-fire also saw the first anti-government protest held in Tel Aviv since Oct. 7, shortly after the publication ofa report by The New York Timesclaiming Israel partially knew about the plans for Hamas' Oct. 7 assault more than a year before the terror attack but dismissed it as aspirational.
"For the last 57 days, we saw that the government has been doing exactly the opposite of what they need to do," the organizer of the protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Moshe Radman, told ABC News.
"We understand this will be a long war, so we have to do it now, because every week that we are not protesting, Israel is becoming less and less attractive to its citizens," he added.