Young woman in Gaza films herself sheltering as bombs drop outside window

Woman in Gaza explains situation as bombs fall around her. Source: Plestia Alaqad

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00:00 So it's around 12 p.m. right now still no electricity, no internet, my battery is at

00:10 2% my parents are still asleep so yeah that's the update for now.

00:15 We've moved really close to my house that's my window right now.

00:23 That's the view.

00:34 People in the street are calling for ambulance but there is no ambulance.

00:41 Here is the window.

00:42 Yeah, literally the whole window is down.

00:49 We can hear the sound of airplanes.

00:53 We are all gathering at our neighbor's house, no internet, no electricity until now it's

00:56 around 7 p.m.

00:57 We literally don't know what's happening in the world.

01:00 Here we are just listening to bombs.

01:05 No one knows anything literally.

01:06 We are evacuating right now.

01:07 Hi, I'm Arisna.

01:08 We are in the street.

01:09 I don't know where we are going.

01:10 We are in the desert and we don't know anything.

01:21 We are just walking.

01:32 Our house is basically burning behind me.

01:44 Okay, it's during war times all the neighbors they just keep their doors open so you can

01:51 just enter your neighbor's house it's okay.

01:54 For my neighbors they didn't evacuate as well.

01:57 They have their windows down.

01:58 Here are their windows and here is the family.

02:02 We are gathering all together also in a place far away from the window.

02:19 I was trying to explain things but I think you can hear them now.

02:27 I'll go check on my parents.

02:40 We're inside the house right now and literally we can't breathe.

02:46 That's the view from the window and I can't keep it open.

02:52 That's the view from the balcony.

02:54 There is literally no view.

02:58 You can't see anything.

02:59 - Okay.