As Palestinians in Gaza return, how has life changed?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
After a long-awaited ceasefire, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians return to find their homes in ruins. As they face the overwhelming task of rebuilding their lives, what happens next?
In this episode:
- Maram Humaid (@MaramGaza), Al Jazeera Journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Khaled Soltan and Ashish Malhotra with Sonia Bhagat, Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Hagir Saleh, Melanie Marich, Hanah Shokeir, and me, Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is the Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, Palestinians in Gaza returned to their destroyed homes. |
| 0:15.0 | It was actually a historical scene, and I'm very thankful and grateful that I've witnessed such a moment in my life. |
| 0:26.0 | With Gaza in ruins, what does a day in the life look like? |
| 0:32.2 | I'm Kevin Horton, and this is the take. |
| 0:48.5 | A few minutes before the ceasefire announced, |
| 0:51.8 | there was a family, a father, |
| 0:57.1 | and the three of his children were heading back to their home east of Kanyulis. And the man, once he arrived, he was shocked by what he have seen. He saw that |
| 1:06.0 | his home, a five-story building, was leveled down to the ground. |
| 1:12.4 | The whole Nibuil was totally destroyed. |
| 1:16.2 | So once he saw his home, he fainted. |
| 1:20.4 | He wasn't able to take it anymore, and he died later in the hospital with a heart attack. |
| 1:28.6 | This is Marab Humed, Al Jazeera English digital correspondent in Gaza. |
| 1:34.9 | I've been covering for Al Jazeera for the past five years, and I covered the Israeli |
| 1:42.2 | war in Gaza throughout the past 15 months. |
| 1:45.5 | And today was the day of return to the north. |
| 1:49.7 | Okay, Mara, just to start, I noticed that you're sitting in the dark. |
| 1:54.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:54.8 | Does that mean that you don't have electricity right now? |
| 1:57.8 | Yeah, actually, there is no electricity in Gaza throughout the past 15 months since the |
| 2:04.7 | start of the Israeli War. |
| 2:06.3 | We didn't have electricity until now. |
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