1 00:00:01,633 --> 00:00:03,800 AMNA NAWAZ: Before the Hamas terror attacks against our Israelis, 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:08,800 life in Gaza was not easy. Now it's immeasurably more difficult and deadly. 3 00:00:10,766 --> 00:00:13,266 For the last two weeks, my colleague producer Zeba Warsi and I have been 4 00:00:13,266 --> 00:00:18,233 talking to people inside Gaza whose lives have been upended by this conflict. 5 00:00:18,233 --> 00:00:20,233 We will hear now from several of them, 6 00:00:20,233 --> 00:00:25,233 some from whom we still receive messages and others whose whereabouts are now unknown. 7 00:00:27,266 --> 00:00:32,066 That beautiful coastal city is Gaza, its charming port, peaceful beaches and life, 8 00:00:34,566 --> 00:00:38,933 both every day and extraordinary, pulsating through its people. 9 00:00:38,933 --> 00:00:43,033 All that was before that war captured by 32-year-old Gazan 10 00:00:43,033 --> 00:00:48,000 photojournalist Motaz Al Aaraj. That Gaza lives only on his Instagram now. 11 00:00:49,933 --> 00:00:52,633 When his home was hit by an Israeli airstrike, Motaz lost his life's work. 12 00:00:52,633 --> 00:00:56,700 MOTAZ AL AARAJ, Photojournalist, Project HOPE: I have thousands of shots for Gaza, 13 00:00:56,700 --> 00:01:01,100 for the sea, for the people, for the markets, 14 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:06,100 for all thing. I lost all thing. I don't have anything to show people what Gaza like before. 15 00:01:11,766 --> 00:01:16,333 AMNA NAWAZ: Now Motaz documents the war for D.C.-based charity group Project HOPE, the 16 00:01:16,333 --> 00:01:21,333 dire conditions in hospitals, the brutal impact of airstrikes, and the worsening humanitarian crisis. 17 00:01:24,033 --> 00:01:29,033 MOTAZ AL AARAJ: I found Sara (ph) under the car, under car. I have video for this. 18 00:01:31,033 --> 00:01:33,866 AMNA NAWAZ: He's living through the same war he's documenting, last week, 19 00:01:33,866 --> 00:01:38,733 capturing his neighbors 16-year-old daughter trapped under a car after an airstrike. 20 00:01:38,733 --> 00:01:43,733 MOTAZ AL AARAJ: I can't do anything for her. This is in -- near my home. 21 00:01:46,433 --> 00:01:49,933 AMNA NAWAZ: Motaz is sheltering with his extended family and 50 others who 22 00:01:49,933 --> 00:01:54,533 fled their homes. Every day, he says, is a struggle to survive. 23 00:01:54,533 --> 00:01:59,500 MOTAZ AL AARAJ: It is very hard. Yes, not all days, I can found water and bread. Maybe I 24 00:02:01,566 --> 00:02:06,433 join the line six hour or seven hour and don't take anything, go to home empty and no food. 25 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:14,300 RAWAN SHAHEEN, Student, University of Palestine: You're seeing so many people around you die, 26 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:19,300 like every single day. You hear about a person, your neighbor or your friend. To be honest, 27 00:02:20,733 --> 00:02:23,700 I wonder a lot. It's like, when is my turn going to be? 28 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:28,233 AMNA NAWAZ: That is 19-year-old Rawan Shaheen, Motaz's niece. She's a second-year 29 00:02:28,233 --> 00:02:32,666 college student studying pharmacy at the University of Palestine in Gaza. 30 00:02:32,666 --> 00:02:36,533 Before the war, her life revolved around her friends and school. 31 00:02:36,533 --> 00:02:40,333 RAWAN SHAHEEN: I had a plan for this year laid out. I had a plan for each module. I 32 00:02:40,333 --> 00:02:45,333 think everyone had plans. And all their plans were canceled, and none of us expected this. 33 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:50,933 My brother, Ibrahim (ph), is 12 years old. And when he talks to me, 34 00:02:50,933 --> 00:02:55,900 he talks like -- he's kind of very sad at the moment, because he feels as if 35 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,733 were not going to make it. I think there is a feeling of numbness, that we don't 36 00:03:00,733 --> 00:03:05,500 feel like we are sharing our emotions that much, because, honestly, it's kind of sad. 37 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:10,500 But what's happening, it shouldn't be normal. But because we're seeing so much death, 38 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:14,533 it's almost becoming some sort of normal, which is not normal. 39 00:03:14,533 --> 00:03:19,533 AMNA NAWAZ: We spoke to Rawan in a video chat last week when she had an Internet connection. Since 40 00:03:19,533 --> 00:03:24,533 then, we can only text, and, even then, sporadically. Her story is one of many. 41 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,200 PALESTINIAN: Completely disconnected from the outside world. 42 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,700 AMNA NAWAZ: Including 20-year-old Shaimaa Ahmed. 43 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:34,533 PALESTINIAN: This is what a Palestinian needs to go through to just buy bread. 44 00:03:34,533 --> 00:03:36,566 AMNA NAWAZ: And her younger siblings, Malik (ph)... 45 00:03:36,566 --> 00:03:39,933 PALESTINIAN: And these are the last words of a grandmother for her grandchildren. 46 00:03:39,933 --> 00:03:43,533 AMNA NAWAZ: ... and Dua (ph). They live in North Gaza and have been posting about life 47 00:03:43,533 --> 00:03:48,233 in the war on Instagram under GazanVoices whenever they're able to get a connection. 48 00:03:48,233 --> 00:03:51,700 SHAIMAA AHMED, Gaza Resident: To be honest, my biggest wish now isn't even to go back to 49 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:56,700 my university to how it used to be, but for my professors and for my friends and the people 50 00:03:58,633 --> 00:04:03,466 I know to stay alive and for me to be able to see them after this whole chaos is over. 51 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,100 AMNA NAWAZ: With limited connectivity, Shaimaa and I have been messaging whenever she can. 52 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:10,700 On October 25. 53 00:04:10,700 --> 00:04:13,700 WOMAN: "Our neighborhood is being severely bombed as I am texting 54 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:18,100 you. We were thinking of leaving, but we have no place to leave to." 55 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:19,833 AMNA NAWAZ: On October 29. 56 00:04:19,833 --> 00:04:23,133 WOMAN: "My sister and I had recently saved up to redecorate our room. My 57 00:04:23,133 --> 00:04:28,133 house has been reduced to rubble. Every day is worse than the previous one." 58 00:04:30,066 --> 00:04:32,866 AMNA NAWAZ: That night, Shaimaa recorded this audio of the Israeli bombings around 59 00:04:32,866 --> 00:04:37,866 her. We've since lost contact with Shaimaa, her last messages to me from Tuesday, October 31. 60 00:04:41,633 --> 00:04:45,433 WOMAN: "It feels terrible. We hear so many sounds, 61 00:04:45,433 --> 00:04:50,300 but have no idea what is going on. I get connected for exactly one minute, 62 00:04:50,300 --> 00:04:55,300 and then it cuts off. The tanks are moving closer. The living situations are unbearable now." 63 00:04:57,133 --> 00:04:59,233 AMNA NAWAZ: We were able to confirm she and her 64 00:04:59,233 --> 00:05:04,233 family had fled south after this and were still alive as of November 3. 65 00:05:04,233 --> 00:05:07,500 For these young Gazans, who've grown up online and connected 66 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:11,966 to the rest of the world, they say all they want now is to be heard. 67 00:05:11,966 --> 00:05:15,633 RAWAN SHAHEEN: I feel like its very important, especially if you're living outside of Gaza, 68 00:05:15,633 --> 00:05:20,633 outside of Palestine,your voice makes a huge difference to us, and it really helps us. 69 00:05:22,066 --> 00:05:24,100 And, in fact, the reason they cut out our communications, 70 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:26,533 Internet and electricity and all of that is because they don't want our voice to 71 00:05:26,533 --> 00:05:31,533 be reached out to the world. But you have a voice, so you could use it to help us.