(9 Jul 2024)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 4 July 2024
1. Various of displaced man Hassan Nofal sitting with his family inside their tent, cooking food
2. Nofal holding the keys to his house
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan Nofal, displaced man:
"If my house key becomes just a memory with me moving forward, then I don’t want to live anymore, I must return to my house, I want to stay in Gaza and settle in Gaza with my children in our house.”
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Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip – 8 July 2024
4. Various of displaced woman from Gaza City, Nour Mahdi, sitting with her family inside their tent
5. Various of Mahdi holding the keys to her house in Gaza City
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nour Mahdi, displaced woman from Gaza City:
"I keep it (the key) in the hope that we will return to our home again and that I will open the door of the house with it again. That’s why I keep it. Whenever I see it, I remember my home and that it is still there, and I continue to pray that we will return to our home and live our lives as we did before, in safety and stability. And comfortably."
7. Various of Mahdi removing cloth and looking outside her tent
8. Various of photo album
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bakeza Abu Asr, displaced woman from Gaza City:
"I took the keys to my house, I took the photo album, because these things are irreplaceable. Perhaps we will return to our home, open it and live in it again. Our dear, irreplaceable pictures are beautiful memories that were in our lives and we can live them again."
10. Various of displaced woman from Gaza City, Bakeza Abu Asr, looking at photos in album
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bakeza Abu Asr, displaced woman from Gaza City:
"In the migration of 1948, people went out with the keys to their homes and they are still with them, and we were the same. Time repeated itself, and we went out with the keys to our homes in the hope of returning, and they were the same in the hope of returning, and the keys remained with them, and our keys will remain with us until we return to our homes."
12. Various of displaced man from Beit Hanoun, Omar Fayad, showing photos of his family
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Omar Fayad displaced man from Beit Hanoun:
"This key represents the hope that we will return to our homes, and it remains a memory. It is true that it is a bad memory that we will return and will not find our home."
14. Fayad holding keys to his house
15. Fayad showing his school certificates
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Omar Fayad, displaced man from Beit Hanoun:
"I regret leaving Beit Hanoun. It would’ve been better for me if I stayed in my house there and died, because of this life."
17. Tents of displaced people seen through torn cloth
STORYLINE:
On his key chain, Hassan Nofal keeps the keys to two homes. One is to the house of his grandparents in what is now southern Israel, which he says his family was driven out of by Israeli forces in 1948 and to which they’ve never been able to return.
The other is to Nofal’s house in northern Gaza that he had to flee last year after Israel launched its campaign of bombardment and offensives in the territory.
Over the nearly nine months since, Nofal and his family have been uprooted four times, driven back and forth across the Gaza Strip to escape the onslaught. Nofal said he is determined to make sure his key doesn’t become a keepsake like his grandparents’.
Israel has said Palestinians will eventually be allowed to go back to their homes in Gaza, but it is not clear when. Many homes have been destroyed or heavily damaged.
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