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Today in Focus

‘A city of ghosts’: two Gaza residents return home

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A fragile ceasefire has allowed thousands of people in Gaza to go back to their homes. Two Palestinians explain why it has been bittersweet. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:08.0

Today, as a fragile ceasefire holds, the people of Gaza who are finally returning to their homes.

0:18.7

People can't stop talking about Academy Award nominated for original screenplay.

0:22.5

September 5.

0:23.6

There's a hostage situation right now in the Olympic Village.

0:26.2

A claustrophobic masterpiece, The Times, Ed Potten.

0:29.2

ABC wants news to take over.

0:30.5

Their sports.

0:31.2

They're in way over your head.

0:32.3

Based on true events.

0:33.5

If they shoot someone on live television, whose story is that?

0:36.6

Is it ours or is it theirs?

0:37.9

A tot, tense thriller, four stars, The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw.

0:41.1

Our job is to tell the story of these individuals.

0:43.6

What's happening?

0:44.6

Oh, God.

0:45.3

September 5 in Cinema Thursday, Surd 15.

0:53.7

The area I was living in, it is called Tallil Hawa.

0:58.7

It was one of the most beautiful areas in the Gaza Strip, with such beautiful streets,

1:06.4

trees, restaurants that you would just love to walk by the streets because they are clean and

1:13.2

nice and the air is very fresh because it's near to the sea.

1:17.3

Wydian Shat is an aid worker and a single mother to three children in their teens and early

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