Politics Return of residents to Gaza's north arouses criticism in Israel
Following the return of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian internally displaced persons to the north of the Gaza Strip as part of the ceasefire, Israel's opposition leader Jair Lapid has criticized the government.
28.01.2025, 12:55
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"The fact that the residents of Gaza are returning to their homes before all the residents of the (Israeli) Gaza border area have returned to their homes is heartbreaking proof that this government simply cannot run the country," Lapid wrote on the X platform.
According to the Hamas media office, around 300,000 people had returned to their homes in the north on Monday alone. The figures could not initially be independently verified. Israel's ground offensive began in the north of the Gaza Strip at the end of October 2023.
Over the course of more than 15 months of war, hundreds of thousands of residents were displaced to the south, where they mostly lived in makeshift tent camps. However, there is also widespread destruction in the north.
According to media reports, residents of the Israeli border area are now afraid of a resurgence of Hamas and a repeat of the massacre on October 7, 2023, which left more than 1,200 dead. At that time, many of the thousands of attackers had crossed the border from the north of the Gaza Strip.
