I walked 11 hours to finally return to my home in Gaza – finding my town destroyed and my house without walls Nedal Hamdouna, a Palestinian journalist, has been displaced seven times by the 15-month war in Gaza.
An and so since the signing of the ceasefire agreement, which includes displaced Palestinians finally being permitted to return north, I had been counting the days, hours, and moments when I could go home.
I had been displaced at the beginning of the war from Beit Lahia, my hometown in the far north of besieged Gaza.
Here he describes the joy he felt in being able to return to Beit Lahia in the north of the strip – and the pain of knowing just how much needs to be rebuilt.
I saw an old man die along the way—his children crowded around him, trying to give him artificial respiration, calling for help from the air.
