The war in Gaza may be ending soon, but those displaced by Israel's bombardment and invasion know their suffering is far from over.
It's early September in Gaza City and Majeda Abu-Jarad and her family are packing up the tents they have called home for the past five months.
"Unfortunately, we are in another displacement, another tragedy, another suffering.
"We are moving now from this place, which was very dangerous for us to live in.
"It's not easy. We got exhausted, really."
Seven of them have been living in the makeshift shelter since March, when Israel ended a ceasefire deal.
It's the family's 11th refuge after having moved towns eight times in two years to avoid the Israeli military's attacks.
Israel is invading Gaza City again and the heavy bombing is forcing the Abu-Jarads to move once again. With international journalists not allowed into Gaza, the ABC sent journalists in Gaza to document their journey.
After helping her husband and daughters pack a hired truck, Majeda turns for a last look at the street where her loved ones have sheltered for months, and waves.
"Goodbye Gaza, my dearest Gaza, goodbye."
Before the war, Majeda, 47, was a researcher and English tutor.
Her husband, No'man, was an accounting graduate who drove a taxi.
The couple lived with their five daughters in an area called Izbat Beit Hanoun, 2 kilometres from the northern border with Israel.
Theirs was a modest, middle-class Gazan life.
"My house was a very simple one. It consists of a single ground floor, and the upper floor has only one room, which belongs to my sister-in-law.
"But now, as we live in the tent, all of us live in the tent."
Displaced again and again
Majeda's family, like nearly everyone in Gaza, have been displaced multiple times in the two years of Israel's military offensive following the October 7 Hamas attacks.
Their first move was from their home in Izbat Beit Hanoun to another town in northern Gaza.
From there, they moved to Gaza City and then to the central camp of Nuseirat, before making their way to the southernmost city of Rafah.
But when the Israeli military launched its offensive in Rafah in May last year, destroying the city, the family were forced to move to Khan Younis.
They returned to their damaged home in Izbat Beit Hanoun when a ceasefire began in January.
Just two months later, when Israel resumed bombing the strip and reoccupied most of northern Gaza, they had to flee to Gaza City again.
The tent on Beirut street, surrounded by other displaced families, has been home since then.
"This place means very much to us, because we got used to the neighbourhood, to the neighbours, even to every centimetre of this area."
On August 20, the Israeli government approved a new plan to re-invade Gaza City.
"Soon, the gates of hell will open upon the heads of the Hamas murderers and rapists in Gaza," Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz announced.
Soon after, the ABC asks Majeda to send regular voice notes and updates on what's happening to her family and to document what it's like to be displaced.
'We can't decide where to go'
On September 3 she sends a video and photos of what she can see unfolding.
"This is the scene I see from inside my tent throughout the day.
"Thousands of families displaced to the south from areas threatened with evacuation.
"This sight leaves a heavy mark on our hearts every day because displacement is not an easy matter in our lives."
Most of Gaza is now under so-called "evacuation orders" issued by the IDF, which the United Nations refers to as "displacement orders"
It means many people, including Majeda, are afraid to leave.
"Until this moment, we can't decide where to go, when to go, or how to go.
"Yesterday, my husband went to Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah, seeking for a place to move to, but he didn't find.
"So, we are so afraid, the bombing everywhere during the day and night."
The fear, trauma and uncertainty are taking a toll, as is the increasing difficulty of getting food and basic necessities as Israel tightens its grip on the city and stops aid convoys reaching it.
Majeda expresses the feelings of many Palestinians at the thought of packing up again and moving to a place of dubious safety.
"Dying on our own land feels far easier than being displaced."
"We have come to envy the martyrs and everyone who died, for they have finally found rest and their suffering has ended, while we are left to endure, to ache, and to grieve every single day for our lives."
On September 5, Israel bombs the Mushtaha Tower, the first of many multi-storey buildings it will destroy as part of a new wave of attacks on Gaza City.
Majeda and her family then hear another tower near them is about to be destroyed.
They flee the area.
"Just now, we are in a rush and abandoned everything because the tower which is very close to our tent is threatened to [be] evacuated.
"And just now we are on the street, and we left everything. We left with nothing but ourselves."
Heading south
The bombing pushes Majeda's family to leave.
"We are living in an area which is surrounded with towers and they are repeatedly threatened to be evacuated. We can't live in this area anymore."
On September 8, Majeda, her husband and daughters pack up their tent and hire a truck to take them south.
The few possessions they have left are precious, as the items have been hard to find in devastated Gaza.
Majeda becomes emotional as she contemplates the family's single glass tea cup.
"When we were staying in Khan Younis or Rafah we were using jars of jams [for] drinking tea but this time we find this cup and I can't leave it.
"Everything is necessary. You can't avoid anything."
Israeli drones buzz overhead and at one point, a passing fighter jet interrupts the interview.
Despite the danger her family has been in, they are sad to say goodbye to her neighbours.
The truck is late and the family leaves just before dark.
"We finished packing our bags and now it's evening and we will arrive maybe in the night.
"The road to Khan Younis will be very overcrowded and it will be very late at night and we hope to arrive in a very safe way."
The journey south, with tens of thousands of people fleeing along a sandy track, is hard.
"We arrived here after 10pm in the night so we can't set up the tent because it was very late, so we delayed it until the next day, so we slept in the street, actually.
"This place is like a desert, actually. It's very hot.
"Now we are preparing this land, we are straightening it to be very suitable for the tent."
The new site, between the cities of Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah, is far from any water or services.
Israel had said this area would be a safe zone for displaced Palestinians, but while the family is setting up, there's an Israeli strike nearby.
It's a sharp reminder that they haven't left the war behind.
Soon after Majeda's family have finished setting up for the morning, the landowners come and tell them they have to move.
"Because their relatives in the north want to move here, so they want the whole land to be for them.
"Their priority is to put their relatives in this land, not us as strangers.
"My husband is trying his best to look for a place but he couldn't [find it].
"I'm disappointed. This matter makes me sad."
After a long day of travel and unloading bags, Majeda's five daughters are also upset.
"They feel very sad [also] because they are girls, they didn't deserve it. It's not their fault to have such a life.
"They are praying and appealing to God to help us and change this life to make it better.
"We got tired so much and we are looking for a better life and safer place and to stop the suffering."
What next?
Now, militant group Hamas and Israel are holding new ceasefire negotiations in Egypt.
It comes after United States President Donald Trump put forward a 20-point plan to end the war and install a new government in Gaza.
The proposal would impose a foreign-led transitional authority and international stabilisation force on Gaza and make any steps towards Palestinian statehood conditional on Israeli approval.
Like many Gazans, Majeda is hopeful that it will stop the bombing, displacement and deprivation.
"Anyone, any Palestinian hopes for a better life.
"We don't have a life at all, we are dead.
"We wish to die to stop this suffering because it's not life."
But she is also scared it will deny Palestinians any control over their future.
"It looks like another occupation.
"It doesn't give us the freedom to take [our own] decisions.
"We want to live in peace in every side of our lives and we want a guarantee there won't be another war.
"We want to rebuild everything in our lives."
The United Nations says more than 400,000 Palestinians have fled northern Gaza for the south since mid-August.
If a deal is reached with Israel, it would have very real consequences for the millions of displaced people living in Gaza.
Until then, they know their suffering is far from over.
"Every time we [are] displaced to an area we are appealing to our God [for this] to be the last one and [are] hoping for a better life and a safer place.
"That's all what we want in this life."
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Reporting: Middle East correspondent
Photography: ABC staff in Gaza
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