Gaza Pottery: A Wartime Substitute for Kitchenware

Watch Gaza Pottery: A Wartime Substitute for Kitchenware - AlArabiya English on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00He presses his hands into the clay, kneading red soil and shaping it into a new path.

00:08Inside what remains of his modest workshop, a young Gazan artisan turns earth into vessels

00:14that feed displaced families who lost everything, including their kitchenware, to the war.

00:30With a severe shortage of plates and cooking pots, traditional pottery has unexpectedly resurfaced

00:48in Gaza as a necessary alternative after years of decline.

00:53Demand has surged dramatically, followed by unprecedented price increases due to

00:59limited supplies and the destruction of clay workshops that once flourished across the strip.

01:05We are not sure how we are, but we are not sure how we are, but we are not sure how we are.

01:21Today, pottery in Gaza is no longer a heritage craft alone, but a daily necessity forced by wartime scarcity.

01:29Thank you very much.