Gaza - Saba
Thousands of displaced Palestinians on Monday began returning to Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip on Monday via Rashid Coastal Street in the central Gaza Strip.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the displaced will be allowed to move in vehicles to the northern Gaza Strip, after subjecting them to inspection, via Salah al-Din Street.
Thousands spent the past two nights in the open on Rashid and Salah al-Din Streets, despite the bitter cold, waiting for the occupation forces to allow them to return to their homes after forcing them to leave and move to the south.
The majority of the displaced people walk the return route via Rashid Street, a distance of at least seven kilometers.
Rashid Coastal Street extends from the north of the Gaza Strip to its south, and during the 470-day war of extermination, it witnessed dozens of massacres committed by the occupation forces against citizens who were on their way to move from the north to the south.
Between October 7, 2023 and January 19, 2025, the Israeli occupation forces launched an aggression on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the martyrdom and injury of more than 158 thousand people, most of whom were children and women, and left more than 14 thousand missing.
The Israeli occupation aggression resulted in the displacement of more than 85% of the citizens of the Gaza Strip, i.e. more than 1.93 million citizens out of 2.2 million, from their homes after destroying them, and about 100 thousand citizens have left the Strip since the beginning of the aggression.
About 1.6 million citizens of the Strip currently live in shelters and tents that lack the minimum requirements for human life, amidst massive and unprecedented destruction of infrastructure and citizens' property.
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