Beirut – Almost 16 months after Israel had ordered her to flee south, displaced Palestinians began a long -awaited reverse train on Monday and hiked to their houses in the north of Gaza as a weapon fire that was kept and Israeli troops withdrawn from parts of the enclave.
Before 7 a.m., when an Israeli military spokesman said that people could return on foot, video transmissions showed massive crowds that gathered near the Netzarim corridor, an Israeli-controlled area that runs from east to west and the Gaza Strip Halved.
When Israeli troops withdraw, the television recordings showed that people stream and a Hamas official said in an interview with the French news agency Agence France press that more than 200,000 had decreased, even though they did not know whether they had a home at all . The north of Gaza was the place of the most violent fights in the course of the war.
The images on social media were kilometer -long quarters from cars that arrived in front of the checkpoints that were occupied by employees of the foreign security company in armored vehicles.
“We slept near this area for three days and waited for the Israelis to let us through,” said a man in his twenties in an interview with the Qatari -channel Al Jazera. He had come from Khan Yunis, a city in southern Gaza, 11 miles away, he said.
In an explanation, the Israeli military asked the returnees to keep away from troops who are stationed on the way. She also warned that “the transfer of militants or weapons via these paths in the North Gaza Strip is considered a violation of the department (ceasefire).
An aerial photo shows repressed Palestinians who return to their houses in the northern Gaza Strip.
(Mohammad Abu Samra / Associated Press)
“Do not work with any terrorist companies that may try to use them to transmit weapons or forbidden materials,” the explanation says.
The residents of Gaza posted videos about the social of Spontinu celebrations that broke out and the amount of men beat drums and sang nationalist songs.
The Hamas officials who commented on the events of the day described the return as a “message to everyone who bets and repressed them from their country”.
Israel had delayed the Return of the Palestinians to Nordgaza for two days because a dispute with Hamas about Arbel Yehud, an Israeli female civilization that Israel was expected to include in the previous publication. Since then, Hamas has said that it will be in the next group to be freed on Thursday.
In the background of the fragile ceasefire, the Arab nations, who observed the process, were stunned by a number of statements that President Trump made over the weekend and said that Palestinians were to be removed from the Gaza and sent to Jordan and Egypt. “We just clear the whole and say:” You know, it's over, “said Trump.
The opponents said that the forced removal of an entire population was ethnic cleansing and was illegal under international law. For the Palestinians it would be a second “Nakba” or a disaster, their word for the founding of Israel in 1948, in which millions of Palestinians fled or driven out of their houses. Many still have hope for the creation of a Palestinian state in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Displaced Palestinians make their way back in the Northern Gaza Strip.
(Abdel Kareem Hana / Associated Press)
Jordan in particular would have difficulty taking up more Palestinians. Its population is already the majority of Palestinian closures.
“Jordan is for Jordanians and Palestine for Palestinians,” said Jordan Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on Sunday in a press conference in Amman. “Our rejection of the deportation is steadfast and unchangeable.”
The deal between Israel and the Hamas, which was mediated after months of intensive negotiations by Qatar, Egypt and the USA, stipulates that 33 Israeli hostages are released during the first phase. Israel would publish around 1,900 Palestinian prisoners.
So far, seven Israelis have been published. The Israeli government said that it was informed by Hamas that 6 of the 26 remaining hostages were dead.
Even when the ceasefire in Gaza lasted, Israel's ceasefire appeared on a shaky soil with the Hezbollisches militant militant group of the Lebanese group.
On Monday, the Israeli troops shot with residents of the South Libanon who tried to return to their border villages after Israel had retired on the Lebanese territory after a Sunday period for his retreat.
The agreement started in November gave Israel a 60-day window to withdraw. It would use this time to ensure that the Hisbollah near the Lebanese-Israeli border has no presence and the Lebanese army has the exclusive control over the area.
In the days before the deadline, the Israeli leaders said that the Lebanese army was not yet ready to use their armed forces, and as a result, Israeli troops would remain in place. The Lebanese army has with the statement that it cannot take over the area until the Israeli forces pull out.
At least 25 people have been killed in the last two days and 140 were injured, according to the health authorities.
On Sunday, the White House announced in a statement that the deadline would be extended until February 18.
Despite the fears of the fragility of the ceasefire, despite repeated statements by its leaders, the Hezbollah has not resumed that it is willing to return to war when Israel exceeds.
“The residents of these villages, in which the crew remains, are ready to free them with our national army to free them,” said Hassan Fadlallah, a legislator of Hezbollah who spoke at an event in the South Libanese city of Bint Jbeil.
At the same time, Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said that the Israeli armed forces “further enforce the ceasefire in the north and south”.
Anyone who violates or (Israeli) armed forces or bears the full costs, ”he wrote in a statement on social media.
Times sTaffer writer Tracy Wilkinson In Washington contributed to this report.