Palestinians in Gaza City keep house keys as homes lie destroyed
Monday, October 27th 2025, 4:29:54 pm
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<body><p>STORY: :: Displaced Gazans’ keys again take on a symbolic meaning as they return to destroyed homes</p><p>:: Gaza City, Gaza</p><p>:: October 26, 2025</p><p>:: Suheil Abdulrahman Abu Safiya, Displaced father from Jabalia camp</p><p>"In the past, people would take their keys so that when the occupier left Palestine, they could return and open their homes again. This time, we took our keys with us thinking we'd go back to our homes in Gaza (City). We went back and found no house."</p><p>:: October 21, 2025</p><p>:: Amal Taleb Alyan, Displaced Palestinian from Al-Shati camp</p><p>"There were missile strikes and belts of fire, so we had to leave the house for the sake of the children, so that our children wouldn't be affected by the war or have anything happen to them. We were scared for them. We took the house keys - here they are, the house keys - we took them so we would come back and find the house. But when the truce happened, we returned, and we didn't find the house, we didn't even find the door."</p><p>The ceasefire has stopped two years of devastating warfare in Gaza triggered by the October 7, 2023 attack in which Hamas-led gunmen killed around 1,200 people and took 251 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.</p><p>Huge swathes of Gaza have been reduced to a wasteland by Israeli bombardment over two years that killed some 68,000 people, according to Gaza health authorities.</p></body>
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