"Gaza and Jenin are beautiful only with their people"

Has fate imposed on our Palestinian people that every generation of them should experience displacement and migration, due to the Israeli measures that are still ongoing in the northern West Bank, and the planning to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip?

Yesterday, the dream of the refugees in Jenin almost came true, when they returned to the door of their camp after news spread quickly via electronic engines, but the occupation, by an unjust decision, deprived them of their return. The question that arises here is: Do the refugees aspire to return to their camps from which the occupation expelled them only, or is it a dream of an eternal and everlasting return to their cities and villages from which the occupation forced them to emigrate, and demolished them in the Nakba of 1948?

The people of every camp, especially Jenin camp, say: We will definitely return, and we will rebuild the camp, and Tulkarm, Nur Shams and Al-Far’a camps will return, which were the victims of an Israeli terrorist operation last night that resulted in a major crime against three Palestinians who were assassinated by undercover forces from the “Border Guards”. The excuse is always, as the spokesmen for the army, police and Shin Bet justify, that they are wanted, and this time they were described as being involved in trading in combat equipment for the purpose of carrying out terrorist operations.

A big and deep wound in the Gaza Strip. Despite the destruction, rubble, and lack of homes or even tents, the message of response to the plan of the obsessed American President Trump, which Israel seeks to exploit and implement, came from the people of Gaza themselves, who expressed their absolute rejection of their displacement and expulsion.

Yesterday it was reported that the Israeli army had actually begun to develop a plan to displace the citizens of the Gaza Strip and to form a (Directorate for Voluntary Migration) at the behest of Defense Minister Yisrael Katz, and to choose wartime to implement it, not during a ceasefire. That is, if it succeeds, it will be a forced migration accompanied by a new aggression against our people.

Israel is planning to implement this plan after obtaining legitimacy from the American president, who appears to have lost legitimacy and competence. Despite Israel’s failure to implement such plans since the 1948 Nakba, this time the plan is broader, and includes a major conspiracy targeting the entire Palestinian cause, and is based on an attempt at voluntary displacement, beginning with convincing a number of countries to receive them and encouraging the citizens themselves through claims of creating better life opportunities.

The practical response to these steps and plans comes through the insistence of the Gazans on living with pride, even above the rubble and destruction, and despite the pain and calamities, as they consider Gaza to be the most beautiful country in the world, and even the entire world, according to a citizen who was exhausted by the return journey from the south to the north, as he says: “There is nothing better than the soil of Gaza,” and he confirms on behalf of the Gazans that whatever the reasons, and no matter how great the sacrifices, we will not leave or emigrate from it.

Another lady says that even if Gaza is destroyed, it is better than all other countries, explaining that enduring the suffering and pain during this period forces us not to leave it.

It is true that the people of Gaza complain about the lack of life and its components after Israel destroyed the infrastructure, water and sewage networks, energy and electricity sources, and the lack of places to shelter, but in their eyes Gaza remains more beautiful, and (Trump's) Gaza will not be beautiful, but rather very ugly without its people, and Gaza with all its camps, Jenin and the West Bank camps will remain attached and longing to memories of sadness, as they constitute a lifelong journey, and the destroyed houses will embrace all the evenings, which will be full of stories of pain and a sad voice in the symphony of farewell to the martyrs in a land riddled with wounds, to say to Trump and Israel: "Gaza and Jenin are beautiful only with their people."