The Palestinians heard Trump wanted to clear them out of Israel, and they’re responding by returning to North Gaza. From Dave DeCamp at antiwar.com:
Despite the massive destruction, around 650,000 displaced Palestinians are expected to return to the north
Palestinians who were displaced from northern Gaza in the early days of Israel’s genocidal war on the Strip began returning to the ruins of their homes on Monday as part of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
Despite the massive destruction in northern Gaza, the Health Ministry estimates around 650,000 Palestinians will return. Later in the day, Gaza’s Media Office said 300,000 Palestinians had returned on Monday.
The Israeli military first ordered the evacuation of north Gaza in October 2023, when it was estimated that the area was home to about 1.1 million people. Most Palestinians forced from the north had been displaced multiple times over the past 15 months and had been living in tent camps in southern and central Gaza.
Many returning to the north will go on living in tents near the rubble of their homes. “We have spent around one year and three months resilient in the Gaza Strip, we did not need anything from the world, we only had God with us,” Fadi, a north Gaza resident who returned to find his home in ruins, told Middle East Eye.
Some Palestinians said the return to the north was a message to President Trump, who recently suggested the idea of “cleaning out” Gaza of its Palestinian residents and sending them to Egypt and Jordan, an idea strongly rejected by the neighboring Arab states.
