“We used to buy bread before the war, but now we make it,” stated journalist Aseel Mousa, 26.
The news has been monitoring people’s lives in Gaza all day long as they looked for food in the marketplaces, labored in crammed hospitals, and attempted to amuse their kids.
There were times when we didn’t hear from our contacts; WhatsApp messages would sit there unread, and calls would end up in voicemail.
On October 7, when Hamas gunmen broke into southern Israel and killed over 1,200 people while kidnapping 253 others, the Israel-Gaza conflict broke out.
There are still about 130 detainees in Gaza, and we were unable to speak with them. Family members in Israel are kept in the dark about the conditions under which they are being held.
At least 29,800 Palestinians have died, the health ministry in Gaza, which is governed by Hamas, reports.