(NewsNation) — A displaced 70-year-old woman from Gaza returned to her destroyed home after a ceasefire deal was struck earlier in the month, bringing an end to the two-year Israel-Hamas war.
Hajja Jamila Abdel-Razzaq Al-Baba repeatedly moved from her beloved home in the Al-Bureij Camp in the Central Gaza Strip during the bloody conflict, which resulted in the loss of over 60,000 Palestinians according to Gaza health officials.
After the ceasefire was agreed to, the Israeli Defense Forces had exited, and Al-Baba finally came home. However, her home was a shell of what it once was due to a bombing.
Fadel Mghari, a freelance Gaza-based photojournalist, provided NewsNation with harrowing images of Al-Baba in her demolished home.
The widow stared at a portrait of her husband that remained unscathed in the wreckage.
“Her house is located in an area opposite the army, and before the ceasefire, she could not go to it because the area was very dangerous, and the pain she was suffering in the tents and places of displacement by her was very bad, and after the ceasefire, she decided to go to her house,” the photojournalist said.
Mghari said the Gaza woman built the home throughout her lifespan with “her own hands,” and said the items tied to her deceased husband were mostly gone, including an olive tree she planted in his memory.
“She cried a lot for the loss of her bed that reminds her of her husband,” Mghari said.
In spite of the tremendous ruin leaving the home as a skeleton of brick and mortar, Mghari said Al-Baba has begun to rebuild her home, and will plant olive trees once again.
“No matter how much the price costs her, she considers it part of her soul and is tired from many years of work and memories. She decided to return after two years of war and tells me I will not leave it again, even if it is her last day in life. She wants to restore it, even in a simple way, and sit in it, even if it is burned, she feels that it is her homeland,” Mghari explained. “The most important thing is a message of challenge and steadfastness in the face of destruction.”
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