'No place safe': a Gaza journalist's life under siege

The Star

Gazan journalist Plestia Alaqad has been filming personal accounts of life under bombardment after Israel began striking Gaza City in retaliation for Hamas' attack on the weekend, showing the world the dangers and fears civilians face on a daily basis.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 and here is the family they're gathering all together also in a place far away from the wind

00:06 i was trying to explain things but i think you can hear them now

00:22 that's the view from the balcony

00:26 there is literally no view you can't see anything no place is safe me personally i've evacuated

00:34 three times since yesterday like okay they tell me to evacuate you go to a friend's house and

00:38 they call them to evacuate you go to another friend's house like situation is just terrible

00:42 we don't have water we don't have electricity we don't have internet that's my window right now

00:50 that's the view we're all gathering at our neighbor's house no internet no electricity

00:56 until now it's around 7 p.m we literally don't know what's happening in the world

01:02 here we're just listening to bombs to be honest you know how some things you don't understand

01:06 them unless you experience them so i'm 22 years old yesterday i understood the

01:11 nehba fully completely like okay i know information about it but my mom

01:14 we can't trust it to be honest you can't imagine until yesterday

01:18 we stayed at the hospital till 11 a.m this morning then we have to leave we called our

01:36 friends we come in come we went to our friend's house only 10 minutes like i only entered the

01:41 bathroom then they called them we will bomb you have to evacuate so we're like all standing in

01:47 the street evacuate to where like evacuate to where

01:51 you

01:51 know

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