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You see, my house was destroyed, but I can sleep on the rubble
said Akram, pointing to the ruins behind him We returned despite the massive destruction and despite the lack of infrastructure, water and basic necessities,
said Ahmed al-Minawi, 24, back with his family in Gaza City We have been fighting displacement since 1948
We only have one choice: to live or die here
said Ahmed Halasa, a 41-year-old resident of Gaza City, standing by the ruins of a toppled building Not even air strikes could force them to leave,
the pensioner said of her compatriots in the Gaza Strip I have heard that Gaza has been very unlucky for them,
Trump’s Gaza fantasy sends Israeli rightwing pundits into rapturous delirium.”
As Yasmin Levy summarised in Haaretz Gaza is for its people and they will not leave,
We call for the convening of an emergency Arab summit to confront the displacement project,
The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting,
Trump said on his Truth Social network Of course there will be people who will flee, those who have no homes and such, people like that will leave, but of course the vast majority will not flee. On my side, I will not leave,
We spent a year-and-a-half under war, we will not accept the idea of leaving. Those who leave their own countries suffer unspeakably. We will not leave or flee our country,
We hope that all nations stand with us and help us to avoid displacement. This is our land and our home. We’ve lived on it. This is our grandparents’ home,
[We ... We are] confirming our determination to stay on this land and our steadfastness in defending our national cause to achieve our people’s dream of liberation and independence,
This is not their land. This is our land. We lived our whole lives, our fathers and grandfathers."
Of the Israelis who now live there I am from Africa. And it’s very interesting to be in Berlin for a Congress”.
In 2017, addressing the Humanitarian Congress Berlin, then ICRC Operations Coordinator, Mamadou Sow, began his remarks by noting They must be allowed to rebuild, and we should be with them in that rebuild on the way to a two-state solution,
We will not allow the rights of our people... to be infringed on,
It's a call for ethnic cleansing, for the forced displacement and expulsion of a people from their native land. It is immoral, it is illegal, and it is dangerous."
The head of the Palestinian mission to the UK, Husam Zomlot, told the BBC We have endured nearly a year and a half of bombings and destruction, yet we remain in Gaza,
