House keys carry symbolic weight for Gaza families repeatedly displaced by war
LA TimesHassan Nofal, whose family was displaced four times by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, holds the keys to his home that he was forced to leave. Israel’s assault in Gaza, triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, has driven some 1.9 million of the territory’s prewar population of 2.3 million Palestinians from their homes. Almost all of Gaza’s population is now crammed into an Israeli-declared “humanitarian safe zone” covering about 23 square miles on the Mediterranean coast, centered on a barren rural area called Muwasi. “It would’ve been better for me if I stayed in my house there and died,” the 57-year-old said, longing for his home in Beit Hanoun in north Gaza. One of Al-Ashqar’s sons went to the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza to stay in his wife’s family home.
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