Summary
Refugee camp in the north of Gaza, home to Reema Saleh’s family in Chapter 4 of From the River to the Sea, and the place Noura Erakat names in Chapter 1 for a father searching the crater that was once Jabalia for his three children (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, lines 285, 372-388).
Details
- Saleh’s friend fled to her brother’s house in the middle of the camp, where a barrage of missiles destroyed dozens of houses and killed scores of people, among them a nine-months-pregnant woman whose body was not found (line 372).
- Saleh’s family live in the camp and at first refuse the order to leave for the south, her mother refusing to repeat the flight of the 1948 Nakba; a neighbour’s adjacent house is bombed without warning (lines 372-378).
- The family evacuate south on 16 October 2023 (line 384).
Related pages
From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, Reema Saleh, Gaza, Nakba