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00:02 Report by Tania Krämer & Mohamad Ibrahim
00:23 Sami Abu Shaban | displaced resident
00:56 Sami Abu Shaban | displaced resident
01:21 Suad Muqat | displaced resident
01:54 Hadeel al Farran | displaced resident
02:35 Hadeel al Farran | displaced resident

Script:

This is Al Rashid Road, the road out of  Gaza City heading south. Sami Abu Shaban’s car, loaded with his family’s belongings, has broken down.

The family of ten were forced to leave Tel al Hawa, a neighbourhood in central Gaza City, under heavy Israeli bombardment.

00:20+++Sami Abu Shaban, displaced resident ARABIC+++ 
“We're dying here, for 30 kilometers I pull and push the car. The cost, just for a battery, is 2,000 dollars, 3,000 dollars. Enough suffering; we're exhausted, we're exhausted. I can't, I really can't.”

Despite new talks about a potential ceasefire being underway, many in Gaza  feel abandoned, and don’t know who or what to believe anymore.

00:46+++Sami Abu Shaban,displaced resident ARABIC+++
“We keep calling and calling for help, but no one cares about us. Not an Arab leader, not a president, not any human on earth is paying attention to us. It’s all lies—there’s no truce, no ceasefire, nothing. There’s a plan in Netanyahu’s head that he wants to carry out. Whatever we say to him is pointless talk. There’s nothing left—we’re finished.”

Another displaced family has made camp right by the road. Suad Muqat, an Egyptian married to a  Palestinian, was injured in recent weeks. She lost her son in the war  - there is no safe place in Gaza, she says.

01:18+++Suad Muqat, displaced resident, ARABIC +++
“They talk a lot; from the beginning of the war they have been saying: on Thursday there is a truce, on Friday there is a truce. Listen: on Sunday there is a truce — and so on. But this talk is all lies. All of this—they are cheating the people with it and trying to keep people quiet.”

Still on the move, Hadeel al-Farran, her mother and her siblings left Gaza City on foot. Her father was killed during the war. They can’t afford transport and don’t know where they’ll stay outside of the city.

01:51 +++Hadeel al Farran, displaced resident, ARABIC+++ 
“The whole road was exhausting. My poor siblings — we were supposed to have transportation provided, something to get us there. We’re worn out; we walk a bit and sit, walk a bit and sit. We are leaving Gaza City now, heading south, but we don’t know if we’ll ever return or not. What will happen to us? What will it be like there?

She has little hope in any of the politicians holding talks. She’s just desperate for the war to stop.

02:21 +++Hadeel al Farran, displaced resident, ARABIC+++ 
“Enough already—our father has died; what more do you want to take? What is left? They keep talking about a truce and keep making empty excuses—just words. From what I see, there’s manipulation going on—between, let me say, both sides. Manipulation—what is happening? We don’t know. We, the people of Gaza, only want safety—just end the war. We’re ready to sleep in the street, to sleep anywhere.”

Here in Gaza the relentless conflict has been chasing people from place to place for so long that talks of ceasefire and peace in Washington feel very far away. 
End: 3:02