BBC OS Conversations: My year in Gaza

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🗓️ 5 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On 7 October 2023, Hamas gunmen attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 more hostage. Israel responded with airstrikes and by sending troops into Gaza. The aim was to destroy Hamas’s military and governing capabilities and to secure the release of the hostages. The impact in Gaza has been devastating. Thousands of people have been killed. The United Nations estimates that around 90% of Palestinians have had to leave their homes and are now living in temporary accommodation. We begin with the stories and words of three Palestinian women, whose lives we have been tracking through voice messages.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Christina Fulk, a producer from the BBC OS team.
0:05.0	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:09.0	We bring people together to share their experiences and this time we have from three Palestinian
0:15.4	women on how their lives have changed after 12 months of war between Israel and Hamas.
0:21.3	Hello I'm inham and this is my year in Gaza.
0:26.4	In this episode, me and two other young women,
0:32.5	Sanibel and Batul, want to share with you some of the conversations
0:37.1	and experiences that we are having cross-Gosa
0:40.2	as we try to live our lives during the war.
0:43.0	I hate living in a refugee camp.
0:46.0	There is no privacy.
0:48.0	A lot of fights from nothing.
0:51.0	You just set alone and try to avoid problems, and then the fights comes to you.
1:01.0	As there are three of us, I will not only guide you through my story, but introduce you to two other women in Gaza. So to start with let me tell you a little bit about me. I'm 27
1:20.5	before last October I was working in a science lab.
1:25.0	But then Hamas government attacked Israel on October 7th, killing 1,200 people and taken 250 hostage.
1:34.8	Now I live in a refugee camp in the center of Gaza
1:38.0	next to the coastline, which is the sound you are hearing now.
1:52.0	Before the war I was living in the north strike and my young nephew and I were trapped under the rebel.
2:02.1	I managed to free both of us and carried him to the hospital, where he was treated and luckily survived.
2:18.0	Over the past year we had to move many times for our safety. Now we are living in attend in a refugee camp in Dair al-Bala.
2:25.0	I wanted to record something that allows you to hear what a typical day can be like?
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