After six weeks of fighting, life for millions of Gazans has changed completely. A video blogger who lives inside Gaza, before she was killed herself, showed through her cell phone how her life changed after Israel's bombing.
Life before the war is a distant memory for video blogger Ayat Khaddoura. Gone are the days of smiling on video, wowing followers...
For several weeks, her posts were about life in wartime.
Now we wake up at 5 in the morning and stand in line for bread. We walk for more than 6 kilometers to get a can of water, salty or drinkable. We charge our phones on the street, using whatever solar panels we can find. We miss our favorite foods, but there is no power, gas or water, so we have to make do with canned food.
Ayat Khaddoura
Ayat told the people how the people in Gaza survived. How neighbors share what little they have, to bake bread in clay ovens. And sometimes, even how close death was, under the bombs falling on Gaza.
This could be my last video. They dropped flyers asking people to evacuate the area, most ran away. People were running through the streets like crazy, not knowing where to go. The situation is dire. Lord, have mercy on us!
Ayat Khaddoura
As fighting intensified in the north, Ayat did not leave. The safe south was an illusion, according to her there was no safety anywhere in Gaza.
Death and destruction can be seen everywhere in Gaza. The occupation no longer has mercy on anyone. Not for the elderly, not for the children, not for the women, not for anyone. All civilians are under attack. Where are the decision makers? Where is the world? Gaza is being exterminated. We are dying. Someone do something. More! Boll!
Ayat Khaddoura
But the desperate calls of so many people, like Ayat... have not stopped this endless nightmare for the people of Gaza, where the burial of the dead has become a daily occurrence.
Where every moment feels like it could be the last. Monday, it was the last moment for Ayat. She was killed along with her family members after a night of intense bombing in Beit Lahia.
In her latest video, the haunting words of a 27-year-old woman are heard with a final message from Gaza to the world.
We are human, like everyone else. We had big dreams. Now our dream is that if we are killed, our body will not be dismembered, that we will be identified and buried in the grave. Let's not be pieces of body in bags. When will this war end? Who will be left alive to tell the people what happened to us? What did we experience? What did we see with our eyes?
Ayat Khaddoura (A2 Televizion)
A2 CNN Livestream
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