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00:03 Report / Tania Krämer & Mohammad al Madhoun
00:25 Eyad Qasem
02:22 Maryam Ashour

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00:01
Searching for wood in the rubble of bombed-out houses is a daily reality here.  

00:07
Eyad and his family have been displaced multiple times since the start of the war in Gaza. 

There is no more cooking gas available. If they do find food, they need to find wood for a fire as well. 
 
00:20+++ Eyad Qasem, ARA+++  (starts in off)
“In the morning, when I go to collect wood, I barely have any energy since I haven't had much to eat, and the sun's rays are very harsh. I get very weak.  I even get tired when I play for a bit. We have no food, no nourishment, no flour, and no meat.” 

00:39
His family relies on a soup kitchen and a daily meal of lentils. Some aid has trickled in (to Gaza) after an 11-week blockade imposed by Israel. It’s not enough. 
 
00:50+++Eyad Qasem, ARA +++  (starts in off)
“When I wake up in the morning, go to the soup kitchen, get a plate for me, and eat it without feeling like I'm eating. We had things before the war, but now there's neither flour nor food or vegetables. If I want to buy a single tomato, it costs ten shekels. But there's no money.” 
 
01:14
Along with thousands of other displaced people, Eyad’s  family has pitched a tent in Al-Katiba Square, in the heart of Gaza City. The tent provides no protection from Israeli airstrikes. 
 
01:29+++Eyad Qasem, ARA+++  (starts in off)
“If there is bombing at night, we all stay next to each other, and we're afraid. A single piece of shrapnel could kill anyone of us. We sleep anxiously, and we barely manage to sleep at all. My father hardly ever sleeps; he stays awake, waiting to help if something happens to one of us. We live in fear all the time. We even dream about bombing.” 
 
02:05
In another tent on the same square in Gaza City, 12-year-old Maryam is living with her family. They have have also been displaced multiple times. 
 
02:17+++ Maryam Ashour, ARA+++  (starts in off)
“We wake up at 6 a.m. to line up for water and the soup kitchen. The work is endless. We take care of the dishes, the fire, the water, the soup kitchen. There are no schools, no water, no food, and no good clothes. It's very different from before the war. Back then, I would wake up in the morning, go to school, and before that, get ready, get dressed, and have breakfast. But now, we just get up and head to the soup kitchen.”  
 
02:53 
Maryam says she’s also afraid to go to sleep at night. 
 
02:57+++ Maryam Ashour, ARA+++ 
“Now, I sleep in fear. I'm afraid of falling asleep and waking up cut to pieces, or of one of my family members dying, or even not waking up at all from fear. Gaza has been completely bombed and is destroyed.  We pray to God to end the war” 
 
03:18
For these children, any sense of safety and a normal childhood has long gone. 

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