(5 Feb 2025)
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Jabaliya Refugee Camp, Northern Gaza Strip – 5 February 2025
1. Various of Gaza residents filling water containers from truck
2. Wide of ruins of damaged buildings, clothes hanging
3. Various of Nayefa Rehan, Palestinian woman from Northern Gaza, walking over rubble
4. Various of Nayefa cooking amongst rubble
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nayefa Rehan, Gaza resident:
"I am not leaving, neither me nor my children, family, daughters or all my people. If we are going to die then we will die on our sand, if they want to hit us with missiles or target us with airstrikes we are still not leaving here. It was a mistake to leave here (before), and we are aware of this now. I have seen tremendous suffering, bitter times, hardship, and hunger. I saw it all wherever I have gone. We will stay here, if we are hungry we still want to live here, if there is not a single glass of water per day we will wait and be patient, if we have to fast with no food and water, we will do but we won’t leave or migrate, it is our homeland where we were born and where we want to die."
6. Various of woman baking bread in clay oven between rubble
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Reem Rehan, Gaza resident:
"Dying here is better, it is better than going anywhere else, because you have nothing after (losing) your land, country and home. Although it is demolished, our homes are worth the whole world for us. We have lived and seen a lot, but since we have seen our homes all the sadness within us left, we felt safe, we felt we are really back."
8. Various of tent built between rubble
9. Women preparing bread dough inside tent
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sahar Rehan, Gaza resident:
"My response to these statements (U.S. President Donald Trump’s), even if it is happening, is that we are not leaving. We have seen hunger in the north, destruction, we have seen death with our own eyes and we hadn’t fled to the south, we have seen the artillery bombardment next to us killing and injuring people and we stayed, we didn’t leave."
11. Various of women preparing bread dough inside tent
12. Various of teenager carrying tray with bread dough, walking between rubble, wind blows off cloth cover
STORYLINE:
Residents in the Gaza Strip rejected Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to permanently resettle the enclave’s population and have the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the territory.
Families in Jabaliya Refugee Camp are living in dire conditions while queuing for water, and baking bread in primitive ovens between the rubble of their destroyed houses.
"It is our homeland where we were born and where we want to die," said Nayefa Rehan who had was displaced three times during the time of the war.
"It was a mistake to leave here (before), and we are aware of this now. I have seen tremendous suffering, bitter times, hardship, and hunger. I saw it all wherever I have gone. We will stay here," she added.
Trump’s suggestion came at a White House news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump detailed a plan to build new settlements for Palestinians outside Gaza, and said the U.S. will take "ownership" in redeveloping the war-torn territory into "the Riviera of the Middle East."
"The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too," Trump said.
His comments drew condemnation from Palestinians who vowed not to leave their territories.
Egypt, Jordan and other American allies in the Middle East have already rejected the idea of relocating more than 2 million Palestinians from Gaza elsewhere in the region.
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