{"id":51336,"date":"2025-01-19T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/gaza-joy-fades-as-gazans-return-to-destroyed-homes\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T18:51:00","slug":"gaza-joy-fades-as-gazans-return-to-destroyed-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=51336","title":{"rendered":"Gaza: Joy fades as Gazans return to destroyed homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">As Palestinians poured onto the streets of Gaza to celebrate the ceasefire, moments of joy faded for many as they returned to their homes to be met by destruction.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Jabalia, a town in northern Gaza that is home to the largest refugee camp in the strip, pictures and videos shared by residents revealed entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Returning to the al-Faluja area of Jabalia, Duaa al-Khalidi told BBC News: &#8220;I survived with my two daughters, we came out from under the rubble of our house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Here, beneath the debris, the bodies of my husband, my mother-in-law, and my sister-in-law have remained buried since 9 October.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old mother of two continued: &#8220;I want nothing but their bodies so I can bury them with dignity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jabalia camp, once home to over 250,000 Palestinians, became the site of the largest and most violent Israeli military operation during the war, with around 4,000 Palestinians killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce8ym4gxnx0o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Palestinians poured onto the streets of Gaza to celebrate the ceasefire, moments of joy faded&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3965,4732,190,666,3683,3001,1910],"class_list":["post-51336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-destroyed","tag-fades","tag-gaza","tag-gazans","tag-homes","tag-joy","tag-return"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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