“It was very long and exhausting,” said Isra Shaheen, 24, immediately after reaching Gaza city.
“Until the middle of the road, people were happy and singing and similar things, but then when it was taking a long time, people were disappointed. Then we came to a mark that was written ‘Welcome to Gaza’ and There were a lot of Palestinian flags.
Others traveled by car on a different path.
“There are thousands of people here,” said 42 -year -old Wafa Hasana. They are filling the whole road … We are happy but I am also feeling sad that I know I will reach Gaza city but mine The house is no longer there. ” As he approached the checkpoint, he said on the phone.
When people reached their destinations, they told their shock what their communities stand.
Mohammad Emaduddin, a barber who was waiting at the checkpoint, returned and saw that his house had been destroyed, and his salon returned and damaged from a nearby Israeli attack.
Lebanese Nasir was waiting for his two daughters and son to meet again with her husband. But when he survived, his house was gone.
He said, “The warmth of the unity was reached again with the bitter truth – we have no house anymore, so we went to a tent north from a tent in the south.”
