“There has been so much destruction, there is nothing left,” said Mohammed Khadr, displaced in Rafah. “We need a ceasefire to see what will happen to us later, a ceasefire to bring medicine or aid to hospitals. “
“Those hospitals are now filled with displaced people, not just the wounded and martyrs,” he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly refused to stop the fighting, telling Fox News on Thursday that “a ceasefire with Hamas means surrender to Hamas, surrender to terror.”
He also said that Israel “does not want to rule Gaza” for long.
“We don’t want to take over, but we want to give it and us a better future,” he told the US broadcaster.
UNRWA said about 1.6 million people have been internally displaced since October 7, more than half of Gaza’s population.
But the United Nations estimates that hundreds of thousands of civilians remain in fierce war zones in the north.