"My father says we should move to Deir al-Balah in the south soon, before they force us out again. If it were anyone else, the UN would have stepped in. But for us, nothing. Now they talk about sending us to South Sudan a country racked by civil war, already full of displaced people. There are 2 million of us, trapped in less than 20 sq km, just waiting to die slowly. And the world will shrug."
"[Former Israeli prime minister] Golda Meir once said: [W]e will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. That says it all. Sometimes, I think Israel should be studied by psychologists maybe then the world would finally understand the madness we live under."
Karim is a trained nurse in his early 20s from Gaza City who has been displaced 13 times and survived an Israeli strike in Rafah. He lived with his parents and brothers amid the ruins of their former home until a forced displacement order. He expresses deep hopelessness, distrust of promises to end the war, and fears of relocation to unstable countries such as South Sudan. He describes hazardous journeys south in overloaded vehicles, witnessing fighter jets and ribbons of fire across the sky, and the reality of two million people trapped in under 20 square kilometres facing slow death and global indifference.
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