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00:00 I am Pragya and I bring to you excerpts from the year-ender issue titled "We Bear Witness".

00:06 The issue is dedicated to the people of Gaza and what they went through.

00:10 An explosion is shaking the house, Ali Abu Yasin, by arrangement with Ashtar Theatre in Gaza.

00:18 In war, you will pass over the most important things unnoticed or without emotion,

00:25 like talking about martyrs. Let me tell you that in war, you will lose all the trifles,

00:31 many of the luxuries and most of the necessities, and you will be left to think about or care about

00:38 only the very, very necessities, for example. You will not be interested in Facebook and you

00:44 may find that it is inactive for 90% of the people. As for TikTok, it disappeared from Gaza,

00:51 as if it were a crime punishable by law. Imagine in Gaza gossip, envy and obsession with others,

00:58 which are one of the pleasures of many people, disappeared. Everyone runs from morning to

01:04 evening to provide his family with food for the day. Compliments, hypocrisy and pretense

01:10 have fallen. Everyone feels that he may die at any moment and therefore has no energy for

01:17 compliments, lying or pretense. You will realize the value of things that were in your hands,

01:24 or you practiced unconsciously and you will discover that your simple actions were the height

01:29 of pleasure and you will remember them and dream of their return, such as standing in front of a

01:35 stove in the morning and turning it on and drinking your coffee quietly with a piece of chocolate

01:41 next to it. Chocolates disappeared from Gaza weeks ago, with chips and the rest of the family

01:48 of delicious things. There are only some cleaning powders left in the stores. You will suddenly

01:54 discover that your family has forgotten the word "Baibush". I don't like it. For example,

02:00 if you were able to save money and cook a casserole of cabbage, everyone would devour it,

02:06 as if it were the most delicious food in the world. It goes without saying that this meal

02:10 previously cost 50 shekels, but today it costs 150 shekels. The thing you will miss most is your

02:19 pillow and your bed. You will still dream of returning to them and sleeping one night without

02:25 the noise of missiles, cannons and non-stop shooting. You will remember television, movies,

02:32 series, talk shows and plays as if they were a distant dream and a high level of luxury.

02:39 You will greatly miss the dining room, the bathtub, the window of your house,

02:44 your good neighbors and your morning walk, whether to work, the market or wherever.

02:50 You will realize what it means to have a closet, clothes, shoes and a refrigerator.

02:56 And a refrigerator filled with fruits. You will learn how to bake in a clay oven and taste the

03:03 new bread. On the way, you will learn how to make this oven from clay and straw and get creative

03:10 with its various designs, types and sizes. There is an oven for baking and a small oven for

03:17 cooking. You will learn how to make firewood, the types of firewood, the difference between

03:23 olive wood and orange wood, the importance of palm leaves in burning and the difference between

03:29 cooking firewood and bread firewood. Lentils will return to the forefront of the stores,

03:35 followed by beans. You will dream of chicken, meat and fish. You will pass over the most

03:41 important things unnoticed or without emotions, like talking about martyrs. You will talk to

03:48 your family about the martyrdom of your cousins as if you were telling your wife you were shopping

03:53 without emotions. An explosion is shaking the house. I will hug the children. For this and more,

04:00 read the year-ender issue of Outlook.