The forty-year-old Youssef Al-Kafarneh and his family only found some curtains and plastic pieces from the remains of their house, to turn it into a small tent that shelters them during the day since the destruction of their house on May 14, 2021.
Al-Kafarneh and his 12-member family spend the day sitting in the tent, while they sleep at night in one of their relatives' house, until the sun rises the next morning, to start a new cycle of suffering and pain.
Al-Kafarneh said in a broken heart, "I lost my hand in an Israeli aggression, and my house in another previous one. What I did for the Israeli occupation?"
He explained, "During the 2014 aggression, I fled with his family to my brother-in-law's nearby house, but it was not safe too, as the bombing was everywhere, randomly."
He added, "I had an amputation in my right hand. I escaped certain death."
Al-Kafarneh was no longer able to work. He lived through hardship and suffering, until the May 2021 aggression as he escaped to his brother-in-law’s house.
"We were waiting for death. Every one of us would flee to a neighbor or relative, thinking that it is safe," he said.
He continued, "We realized that there is no safe place in Gaza! We were forcibly displaced to shelter schools in the Nasr neighborhood in Gaza City."
Al-Kafarneh noted, "That night, May 14, the surroundings of my house were subjected to violent Israeli air strikes. In the morning, I went there, and found it was like an earthquake had hit the place. The house of my neighbor from the Al-Attar family collapsed completely. The infrastructure is destroyed, my house is in ruins, uninhabitable.”
He stressed, "I was shocked by the scene! I did not imagine for a moment that the suffering I lived due to the injury would multiply and live more severely because of my uninhabitable house."
He added, "Instead of being in my home safe, I became homeless, living with my family in a tent."
He pointed with his amputated hand at his little child, saying: "This child has been deprived of the joy of Eid. He did not even wear the clothes we bought him!"
The recent Israeli aggression on Gaza resulted in the death of more than 250 martyrs, including 69 children, 40 women and 17 elderly people, and the injury of about two thousand.
