{"id":44088,"date":"2025-02-21T05:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/gazans-returning-home-to-jabaliya-embrace-reopened-market\/21\/02\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T05:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:20:19","slug":"gazans-returning-home-to-jabaliya-embrace-reopened-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/gazans-returning-home-to-jabaliya-embrace-reopened-market\/21\/02\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazans Returning Home to Jabaliya Embrace Reopened Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When people talk about which parts of the Gaza Strip have been most devastated in the war, Jabaliya nearly always comes up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A town in the north of the enclave, Jabaliya was once home to some 116,000 people. But many fled south after the Israeli military launched its assault on Hamas, in retaliation for the militant group\u2019s deadly attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By the time the war was nearing its first anniversary, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/10\/07\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-destruction-hamas-war.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The New York Times calculated<\/a> that four out of five structures in Jabaliya had been damaged or destroyed. And Israeli forces, which describe the town as a stronghold for Hamas, bombarded Jabaliya many more times since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The photograph above was taken late in the morning of Feb. 13, a little more than three weeks into the first phase of a cease-fire that allowed food and other supplies to flood into Gaza, easing its humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The combat in Jabaliya had for months mostly prevented market vendors there from selling their wares, but as displaced Gazans returned, so did the stalls. Residents came home to an unrecognizable landscape, with craters sunken into the earth where many homes had once stood. They looked for their dead, and salvaged what they could from the ruins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the market that morning the talk was largely of survival. Questions mixed in the air with the smells of sewage and dust kicked up by bulldozers. Where could you find water? How about gas, and tents? How did you apply for aid? Most ominously, was the fighting truly over?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But few of those making their way around the reopened marked could ignore the tables around them, laden with fruit and vegetables after so many months of want. The townspeople, at least those who had a little money, ate voraciously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-photo-jabaliya-market.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people talk about which parts of the Gaza Strip have been most devastated in the war, Jabaliya nearly always comes up.<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/gazans-returning-home-to-jabaliya-embrace-reopened-market\/21\/02\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}