Samah Deeb, displaced from northern Gaza to central Gaza, remained apprehensive even as Hamas returned hostages.
“We still feel like hostages to the situation,” Deeb, 33, told AFP.
“The next stage of the ceasefire, which involves disarmament of Hamas and administration of the Strip worries us.
“I want my children to have a dignified life, for schools and education to return, and for us to live in a proper home, not a tent or temporary shelter.”
Her views were echoed by Mohammed Zamlout, another displaced Gazan.
“We want Israel’s withdrawal. We want to return to our destroyed homes, begin reconstruction, rebuild infrastructure and schools, and restore life for our children,” he said.
Israel listed Goldin among the deceased hostages whose remains it is seeking to repatriate under the ongoing US-brokered ceasefire deal to end the latest Gaza war.
At the start of the truce, Hamas was holding 20 living hostages and the bodies of 28 deceased captives.
It has since released all the living hostages and returned 23 remains of the deceased in line with the ceasefire terms.
In exchange, Israel has released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners that had been in its custody and returned the bodies of hundreds killed in Gaza.
Apart from Goldin, four hostage bodies – three Israeli and one Thai – remain to be returned from Gaza, all of them seized during the October 2023 attack.
