‘It’s Bisan From Gaza, And Israel Is Forcing Everyone To The Desert'

December 18th, 2023 Al Jazeera

00:01 This is Bisan from Gaza. We are still alive and I'm now in al-Mawasi. So we're talking about the area, the space of a small park or maybe an airport. How could this tiny area accommodate 2.25 million displaced Gazans? Many people came, uh, in the previous days to these areas.

00:33 Now people are coming to make things even in these areas. So even the areas that people are using to have some fresh air to maybe, uh, put on the fire, to cook, to use as, as bathrooms will be used to tent in the upcoming days.

02:01 I am

02:49 So, Al-Mawasi which is almost one kilometer with a length of 14 kilometers. It's really a small area, and it's sandy nature make it like barren without any trees, without any agricultural crops, without nothing but sands heat dust the day hours, uh, cold at night, um, dust all over the, the, the day, uh, hours. So, um, it's, it's almost impossible for people to live here.

04:27 So people are trying to find the dry wood as much as they can because it's the only source of energy. It's the only way to make the fire to pop, to, to do anything actually. And you know, it's the coastal area. There's no trees. All these, let, let me say wood, that we see, uh, people cut this wood or collected from far areas in Rafa, then walk to al-Mawasi again.

04:58 Uh, the safety is not just the, that there's no bombing or there's no invasion, there's no food, there's no water, there's no place here.

05:44 So at first, people started to make the, the things around the UNRWA logistic base so they could be near to the UN, near to safety, and not being bombed, that’s how they think actually, and to the food and aid. But after the people in Khan Younis evacuated to al-Mawasi, the place became crowded. The food is not enough. Tents are not enough. Nothing is enough here.

07:32 This is the, the, the area that people do You hear. Do you hear that? The unmanned, uh, and the warcrafts, uh, and the, the, the plans. Even here, we can, we can hear all these things.

08:10 So again, it looks like it's not suitable for living, for sheltering, for evacuating. It's just good for football. So let's see this match. Yalla.