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AMNA NAWAZ: Before the
Hamas terror attacks
against our Israelis,

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life in Gaza was not easy.
Now it's immeasurably
more difficult and deadly.

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For the last two weeks,
my colleague producer
Zeba Warsi and I have been

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talking to people inside
Gaza whose lives have been
upended by this conflict.

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We will hear now
from several of them,

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some from whom we still receive
messages and others whose
whereabouts are now unknown.

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That beautiful coastal city
is Gaza, its charming port,
peaceful beaches and life,

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both every day and
extraordinary, pulsating
through its people.

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All that was before that war
captured by 32-year-old Gazan

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photojournalist Motaz Al
Aaraj. That Gaza lives
only on his Instagram now.

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When his home was hit
by an Israeli airstrike,
Motaz lost his life's work.

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MOTAZ AL AARAJ, Photojournalist,
Project HOPE: I have
thousands of shots for Gaza,

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for the sea, for the
people, for the markets,

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for all thing. I lost all thing.
I don't have anything to show
people what Gaza like before.

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AMNA NAWAZ: Now Motaz documents
the war for D.C.-based charity
group Project HOPE, the

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dire conditions in hospitals,
the brutal impact of
airstrikes, and the worsening
humanitarian crisis.

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MOTAZ AL AARAJ: I found Sara
(ph) under the car, under
car. I have video for this.

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AMNA NAWAZ: He's living
through the same war he's
documenting, last week,

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capturing his neighbors
16-year-old daughter trapped
under a car after an airstrike.

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MOTAZ AL AARAJ: I can't
do anything for her. This
is in -- near my home.

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AMNA NAWAZ: Motaz is
sheltering with his extended
family and 50 others who

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fled their homes. Every day, he
says, is a struggle to survive.

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MOTAZ AL AARAJ: It is very
hard. Yes, not all days, I can
found water and bread. Maybe I

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join the line six hour or seven
hour and don't take anything,
go to home empty and no food.

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RAWAN SHAHEEN, Student,
University of Palestine:
You're seeing so many
people around you die,

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like every single day. You hear
about a person, your neighbor
or your friend. To be honest,

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I wonder a lot. It's like,
when is my turn going to be?

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AMNA NAWAZ: That is 19-year-old
Rawan Shaheen, Motaz's
niece. She's a second-year

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college student studying
pharmacy at the University
of Palestine in Gaza.

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Before the war, her
life revolved around
her friends and school.

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RAWAN SHAHEEN: I had a plan
for this year laid out. I
had a plan for each module. I

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think everyone had plans. And
all their plans were canceled,
and none of us expected this.

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My brother, Ibrahim
(ph), is 12 years old.
And when he talks to me,

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he talks like -- he's kind
of very sad at the moment,
because he feels as if

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were not going to make it.
I think there is a feeling
of numbness, that we don't

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feel like we are sharing our
emotions that much, because,
honestly, it's kind of sad.

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But what's happening, it
shouldn't be normal. But because
we're seeing so much death,

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it's almost becoming some sort
of normal, which is not normal.

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AMNA NAWAZ: We spoke to
Rawan in a video chat
last week when she had an
Internet connection. Since

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then, we can only text, and,
even then, sporadically.
Her story is one of many.

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PALESTINIAN: Completely
disconnected from
the outside world.

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AMNA NAWAZ: Including
20-year-old Shaimaa Ahmed.

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PALESTINIAN: This is what
a Palestinian needs to go
through to just buy bread.

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AMNA NAWAZ: And her younger
siblings, Malik (ph)...

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PALESTINIAN: And these are the
last words of a grandmother
for her grandchildren.

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AMNA NAWAZ: ... and Dua (ph).
They live in North Gaza and
have been posting about life

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in the war on Instagram under
GazanVoices whenever they're
able to get a connection.

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SHAIMAA AHMED, Gaza Resident:
To be honest, my biggest wish
now isn't even to go back to

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my university to how it used to
be, but for my professors and
for my friends and the people

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I know to stay alive and for
me to be able to see them
after this whole chaos is over.

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AMNA NAWAZ: With limited
connectivity, Shaimaa and I have
been messaging whenever she can.

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On October 25.

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WOMAN: "Our neighborhood
is being severely
bombed as I am texting

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you. We were thinking
of leaving, but we have
no place to leave to."

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AMNA NAWAZ: On October 29.

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WOMAN: "My sister and I
had recently saved up to
redecorate our room. My

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house has been reduced to
rubble. Every day is worse
than the previous one."

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AMNA NAWAZ: That night,
Shaimaa recorded this audio
of the Israeli bombings around

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her. We've since lost contact
with Shaimaa, her last messages
to me from Tuesday, October 31.

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WOMAN: "It feels terrible.
We hear so many sounds,

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but have no idea what is
going on. I get connected
for exactly one minute,

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and then it cuts off. The tanks
are moving closer. The living
situations are unbearable now."

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AMNA NAWAZ: We were able
to confirm she and her

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family had fled south
after this and were still
alive as of November 3.

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For these young Gazans, who've
grown up online and connected

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to the rest of the world,
they say all they want
now is to be heard.

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RAWAN SHAHEEN: I feel like its
very important, especially if
you're living outside of Gaza,

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outside of Palestine,your
voice makes a huge difference
to us, and it really helps us.

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And, in fact, the reason they
cut out our communications,

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Internet and electricity
and all of that is because
they don't want our voice to

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be reached out to the world.
But you have a voice, so
you could use it to help us.