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Lower thirds:

00:02 Report by Mohamad Ibrahim & Tania Krämer
00:24 Mahmoud Ayyoub | Displaced resident
02:28 Mahmoud Ayyoub | Displaced resident

 
Script:

00:02
Getting ready to go back to Gaza City. Mahmoud Ayyoub knows there's not much there. The family was displaced several times during the war. Now he’s leaving their temporary quarters in central Gaza to check on their home.  
 
He knows what he’s heading into.  

00:22 +++Mahmoud Ayyoub, displaced resident, ARABIC+++  
After they announced another ceasefire, we returned again to Gaza and found our house further damaged. We keep tidying up and cleaning, but there is no life in Gaza at all, no fresh water and no brackish water. There is absolutely no life there.” 
 
00:39
The coastal road leads through devastation. Whole neighborhoods of Gaza City are barely recognizable.  
 
The UN estimates that some 61 million tons of rubble in Gaza need to be cleared – and that this could take up to 30 years. 

01:01 +++Mahmoud Ayyoub, displaced resident ARABIC+++  
Do you see this? There is no road for us even to reach our home. Do you see how the streets are blocked and destroyed? There are no bulldozers to remove these piles of rubble.” 

01:19
It’s not only dispiriting, it’s also dangerous - he has to be extremely careful  - there could be unexploded shells under the rubble.  
 
Ayyoub’s flat is in Sheikh Radwan, a neighborhood in the north of Gaza City.  

A few blocks further north and east, the Israeli military is still in charge – which means not everyone can go home, as this displaced young Palestinian explains.  
 
01:47
+++Vox Muntasir Fares Fuad Abdelaziz, Arabic +++ 
“We cannot go to the (Jabalia) camp because it is in the yellow zone. If we go there, we will die, they shell us and shoot at us. We can’t reach our homes; we simply cannot get to them. They made this truce for nothing.” 
 
02:01
The so-called yellow line, the boundary, has not been clearly demarcated, and leaves Israel in control of more than half of the Gaza strip. Anyone approaching the area could be shot. 
 
Ayyoub finally reaches his flat - the walls are still standing, but the area around the family home is unlivable. He’s not sure when he will be able to return with his family.  
 
02:26
+++ Mahmoud Ayyoub, displaced resident, Arabic+++ 
“What makes things hard for me at home is that there is no water. It is a long trip to bring water, and we need to carry it up to the fifth floor on the stairs from far away.” 
 
02:39
Before the war, Ayyoub worked as a porter in a shop, but he has no way to earn money right now. But that is not his greatest concern:  
 
02:48
+++Mahmoud Ayyoub, displaced resident, ARABIC+++ 
“The war could ((come back)) restart at any moment and there is no future for me here in the Gaza Strip because there is no life at all. //“Hopefully the truce continues without being breached so things continue to get better and  this war stops.” 
 
03:04
The truce is only the first step. Rebuilding a life in this neighborhood will need a whole lot more. 

ENDS