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Hello, I'm James Reynolds. Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

In BBC OS conversations, we aim to bring people together to share their experiences

of main global events and this time its conversations respectively with teenagers living in Gaza

and across the border in Israel. In both places there is pain and anger and grief. We've been

reaching out to young people and to their mothers on both sides to try to get a picture of how people

are getting on. No one cares about us. They think we are terrorists. We are truly suffering.

We try as parents to protect them as much as we can to keep their innocence.

But when you have on your doorstep these cruel acts, it's very worrying.

The chief of the United Nations relief agency told the BBC in recent days that the Middle East

was on the edge of an abyss as a result of the war between Israel and Hamas. It is a reflection

of this region that many of those caught up in the conflict are young people and it is those

young people we want to hear from on this programme. We'll hear from Israel a little later on,

but we begin in Gaza, the crowded, packed strip of land controlled by Hamas, an organisation

designated as a terrorist group by many Western governments. Humanitarian groups have expressed

increasing concerns about the desperate conditions facing civilians in the territory. I should say

that communicating with people in Gaza, getting a phone line up has been extremely difficult

and it hasn't been possible because of this to bring people together in conversation.

But we've got through to young people they've been sending us voice messages when they can,

when they've got sufficient internet or electricity often at sporadic times during the day.

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