Filmed on Monday, before the 72-hour ceasefire and the resumption of rockets and airstrikes today:
The message from you was brief: “Sounds sounding again.” But even in those three words, I felt your tension. Once again, you were having to scramble for safety in your stairwell because the shelter down the road is closed. And even when the sirens stopped, you would live your life waiting for the next time you heard a blast.
I could see that tension in your messages of the last few weeks. Having started off reporting on what would become a war between Israel and Gaza, there would be less about what Israel was doing and much more about how Hamas was lying, firing yet another volley of rockets, preventing foreign journalists from operating to show the real truth of the war….
I still want to ask you, beyond all that tension, to try to move beyond this. To try to think not only of your position but of those of your neighbors in Gaza. Neighbors who don’t have a shelter — open or closed — down the road, who don’t have an air raid siren, who have only four minutes to evacuate the home in which they lived for years or even decades.
