Gaza: Europe and the Arabs
"We do not want wars, nor destruction, nor killing, and I do not want my house to stand while my neighbors' houses were destroyed," this was the wish of the displaced Palestinian in Gaza, Najla Abu Al-Aoun, as the new year began, according to the UN News Bulletin, a copy of which we received this morning.
Najla, who is 36 years old, lives with her relatives in a modest tent in the Al-Sadaqa camp west of Deir al-Balah, where she cooperates with her relatives in all daily tasks, including taking her daughter to school, which is another tent close to their tent.
Najla is one of the other displaced women who were displaced without their husbands and have become heads of households.
She told the UN News correspondent in Gaza: "We wake up and go to sleep every day wondering; when will this war end, and when will this suffering we are living end?"
She added: "What I have witnessed in a year and four months has made me feel as if I am 60 years old. I carry water, and I wait in front of a soup kitchen to bring food for my children. These are tasks that men do. But many women have been displaced without their husbands. All that I and others, even the children, are calling for is for peace to be achieved."

What Najla is looking forward to is for "the world to look at us as human beings, and for all the world's institutions to look at us with consideration."

The displaced Palestinian said: "We are concerned with peace and we do not want war. We want to live and for our sons and daughters to grow up in safety."
She hoped that she would never walk in a place where she would remember that "my neighbor lived here, but he is dead now. And that a family lived there, but they were wiped out."
In the same camp lives the displaced Sharif al-Sharif, who has been displaced ten times so far.

Sharif told our correspondent: "No one cares about us or looks at us. We have no flour, no food or drink." He complained that the rainwater had flooded their tents and soaked their children and belongings, adding, "We haven't eaten since yesterday. All we want and hope for is peace." Peace is also what displaced person Mohammed Al-Sisi hopes for, saying, "We hope to see the day when we live in peace, like other people in the world."