Escaping Gaza City, while reporting on its destruction
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:08.6 | Today, a journalist on fleeing Gaza City and reporting as she goes. |
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| 1:16.2 | We are now in the apartment, and my family is gathering our belongings together to move them easily. |
| 1:20.9 | I feel deeply sad and frustrated. |
| 1:29.1 | We all say that we don't want to leave but we deeply know that we have no other choice. |
| 1:32.4 | Malak Tantash is a journalist in Gaza. |
| 1:39.1 | On the 16th of September, the day that Israel began its full-scale ground invasion of Gaza City, |
| 1:41.4 | she sent us these voice notes. |
| 1:51.0 | The sound of Israeli plants fills the air and from time to time we hear sounds of explosions. |
| 1:59.0 | Malak has been writing for the Guardian for 18 months, but now, like thousands of others, she was also being forced to flee under mass evacuation orders. |
| 2:03.3 | My mind is full of thoughts. This is our last night here. Will they allow us to return to Gaza |
| 2:11.6 | city again? I remembered enjoying my last moments at the window today, watching the people below and holding on the beautiful scenes, because I knew very well they would never be repeated again. |
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