“Donald Trump is a haughty narcissist,” 60-year-old Maha Azazi tells me. “He has a medieval mindset, a merchant mindset.”
Maher left Jabaria as a toddler. Some of his family are still there and are now picking up tile bles in their home for the bodies of 18 missing relatives.
Despite the devastation there, Azazi says today that Gazan learned the lessons of previous generations.
Those who once saw it leave as a temporary bid for shelter now believe it will help Israeli far-right nationalists take Palestine lands.
“We at Gazan have experienced this before,” says Yousef, born in the camp. “At the time they said it was temporary and we would go back home. The right to go back is a red line.”
“When our ancestors left, they now had no weapons to fight like Hamas had,” another man tells me. “Now, the younger generation is fully aware of what happened with our ancestors, and it will never happen again. There is resistance now.”
Palestinians aren’t the only ones who are evacuating to Jordan. This is a small capacity of stability surrounded by many conflicts in the Middle East.
The Iraqis arrived here and fled the war in the early 2000s. Ten years later, the Syrians also came and urged the king of Jordan to warn that their country was at the “boiling point.”
Many native Jordanians have condemned a wave of refugees for high unemployment and poverty at home. A food bank by a mosque in Central Amman said it would give 1,000 meals a day.
