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After Viewing Khan Yunis, Palestinians Return to Their Tents in Rafah
(Wall Street Journal) Omar Abdel-Baqui - After hearing that Israeli ground troops were leaving Khan Yunis on Sunday, Walid Abu Amro, 43, traveled north from his tent shelter in southern Gaza to check his home. "There's nothing there, it's all gone," he said. Khan Yunis, a Hamas stronghold and the site of particularly fierce fighting over the past four months, is the first major city that Palestinians have returned to since the fighting has subsided, and reflects what will lie ahead for those who have been displaced by the war. Many displaced Palestinians returned to their tents in Rafah after finding their Khan Yunis homes destroyed or uninhabitable. Even if people were lucky enough to have an intact home, seeing the wreckage of Khan Yunis made many realize there is no point in moving back there. Mohammad Abu Watfa said, "At least in Rafah there is some water, some services, some electricity with solar panels. There is none of that in Khan Yunis."