Residents of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip return to find their city in ruins after Israeli troops pull out, leaving behind a landscape of destruction and death.
A Palestinian elderly woman pushes a wheelchair past rubble in Khan Yunis on April 7, 2024 after Israel pulled troops out of the southern Gaza Strip , six months into the devastating war following the October 7 attacks. — AFP picKHAN YUNIS, April 8 — “It smells like death,” said Maha Thaer, a mother of four, as she returned to the devastated southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis yesterday, after Israeli troops withdrew.
Soon after the Israeli army said its troops were pulling out, people began to emerge into the devastated landscape — the residents of Khan Yunis returning to find what remained of their homes.Nearly 400,000 people lived in Khan Yunis and its environs before October 7. Much of the area is now in ruins after months of bombardment and heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants.
Her neighbours suffered a greater misfortune. “They found their homes destroyed and they don’t know where they will go,” she said. With everything around him in ruins, AFP photographs showed the man standing among smashed concrete and corrugated iron roofing.Other images showed large swathes of the city flattened.
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