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PBS News Hour - Segments

Gazans reflect on one year of living in war, incomprehensible loss and sorrow

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Monday marks one year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. Over this last year, the Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza have exacted a terrible price on Gaza's people. One out of every 20 has been killed or wounded. News Hour videographer Shams Odeh worked with producer Zeba Warsi and Nick Schifrin to bring us this report. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Monday marks one year since the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel.

0:06.0

Over this last year the Israeli bombing an invasion of Gaza has exacted a terrible price on Kaza's people,

0:13.2

with an estimation that one out of every 20 people

0:16.4

has been killed or wounded.

0:18.4

Newshour videographer Shams Ode in Gaza

0:21.1

worked with producer Ziba Varsi and Nick Chiffrin to bring us this report on a year in hell.

0:27.0

To this day, Mohamed Mahdi Abu al-Kum-San cannot fathom his incomprehensible loss.

0:37.0

He walks us into his threadbare home and life.

0:42.0

A donated canvas shelter with sorrowful reminders, the doll that will never be

0:47.3

held, the clothes that will never be worn. I don't even have one photo of me and my children. I had only left the house to get their birth certificates. I ended up getting their death certificates too.

1:01.0

In August, horror.

1:05.0

His wife of one year, her body under the shroud,

1:10.0

her name in Penn, Dr. Jumana Arfa, and three-day old Osser and Isal, the family says all

1:17.3

killed in an Israeli air strike. In Gaza today death can arrive as life begins, and photos of births are the only photos he'll ever have.

1:28.0

I was excited to leave the hospital to go and show my wife the birth certificates because she chose their names.

1:36.0

Only five minutes later I started the process to get their death certificates.

1:40.5

Arfa was a pharmacist at a private clinic. Their twins were their first born. And like everyone here in the last year, the family fled from multiple homes, first from Gaza City to Raffa, and then back to Darabala in search of unobtainable safety.

1:56.4

On Facebook, Arfa used to write about the war's victims until she became one. I need a court of law to find how a woman who was living in a safe home who had recently given birth was killed in this way. Children are not at fault. We're merely civilians. We're not involved in other activities.

2:15.0

Don't we deserve to live in peace without fear?

2:20.0

But Gaza is stalked by fear and dominated by death.

2:24.0

The Abed kids, Hala, Hazal, Muhammad, and Salma

2:28.0

are among tens of thousands of orphans,

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