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00:02 Report by Tania Krämer & Mohammad Ibrahim
00:16 Rozan Al Madhoun | Displaced resident
00:33 Courtesy Rozan al Madhoun | September 2025
00:51 Rozan Al Madhoun | Displaced resident
01:20 Courtesy Rozan family
01:27 Rozan Al Madhoun | Displaced resident
02:18 Rozan Al Madhoun | Displaced resident
02:57 Rozan Al Madhoun | Displaced resident
03:10 Gaza City - Oct. 4, 2025

Script:

Two years of war have shattered Rozan Al-Madhoun’s life. Death and displacement stalk her. Plans and ambitions seem very far away. 

00:11 +++Rozan Al Madhoun, displaced resident, ARABIC+++ 
“I was in my final year of pharmacy school, about to graduate. But the war came and stopped my studies and actually stopped life altogether in Gaza. We were displaced from our home.// and were displaced to several places, lived in tents, endured the heat, endured the rain, survived times of famine.”

+++Insert mobile footage Rozan al Madhoun, September 2025+++
Rozan documented the scene in Gaza City, as Israeli ground forces moved in to seize and conquer the city. 

Just a day before talking with us, she joined hundreds of thousands of other displaced Palestinians forced to leave.

00:45+++Rozan Al Madhoun, ARABIC+++
“I live in a tent in the central governorate. Life is extremely difficult, with no electricity, no water, no privacy, and no safety. The destruction surrounds us, and any moment could be our last.”

+++Insert: photos courtesy Rozan al Madhoun, July 2025+++
This July an Israeli airstrike hit her family’s home in Zeitoun, Gaza City, while she was at work.

+++Insert?? photo courtesy al Madhoun family+++
It killed her mother, her father, and all her three younger sisters. She and her brother, who is in Egypt, are the only members left of her immediate family. 

01:21 +++Rozan al Madhoun, ARABIC++++
I couldn’t imagine that they might have been killed, since my family had nothing to do with politics, they had no affiliation, they weren’t involved in anything. After sitting for an entire hour at the hospital surrounded by other relatives, they told me my mother had been martyred. //CUT// I went to her, held her, but I remember little because I was absolutely broken at that moment. They tried to console me and reassured me that my father and my three sisters might still be alive in another hospital.

But the strike had killed them too - and their bodies were still in the ruins of their home. She had to wait a month for the Israeli military to leave the area, before she could recover them.

02:09+++Rozan al Madhoun, ARABIC+++
“I went and found my family in the only section of our house that I could make out in all the rubble. My dad and three siblings, all on one couch. My cousin and two neighbors helped me remove them with our bare hands, without civil defense or equipment.” 

Now, Rozan is displaced in Deir Al-Balah. A coffee shop offers some semblance of normality - and the chance to recharge phones and laptops. She still works - as an assistant pharmacist for displaced people.  

02:52++++Rozan al Madhoun, ARABIC+++
“After two years of negotiations, suffering, displacement, famine, lack of water, and hunger, a solution must be found.” 

03:09 ++++insert?? Reuters, 4.10. Gaza City+++ CHECK FOR MANDATORY CREDIT and INSERT LENGTH
Most of Gaza is in ruins, and countless lives have been lost or shattered, in the war which an independent United Nations commission has called a genocide. 

03:17+++Rozan al Madhoun, ARABIC+++
For me, Gaza [City] now is pain, tenderness, and sorrow. It was tranquility and safety, but it has become a graveyard of dreams. Yet despite all the tragedy and suffering, I still love it, am attached to it, and hope that we will return to it soon, God willing.

Ends: 03:40