00:00Once again, Sami al-Khatoud is trying to start over.
00:04Before the war, he ran two cosmetic shops in Gaza City.
00:08As you can see, it's now just a pile of rubble.
00:10The shop was here.
00:11Now there's nothing.
00:13There's been a ceasefire since October 2025, but in Gaza that means something different
00:18than it does elsewhere.
00:20Anyone who tells you that the war has stopped is not telling the truth.
00:23There are still attacks and the price increases are unbearable.
00:26Like many others, Sami has been displaced more than six times during the war.
00:32Today, he's struggling to sell his products.
00:35Much of what he sells is considered a luxury now.
00:38They only buy when they are forced or they desperately need something.
00:41Yes, it is difficult, exhausting and earning a living is hard, but it is better than nothing.
00:47For those who have it, work is a small distraction from the fact that Palestinians have no say
00:53in what happens in their homeland.
00:54And mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas, designated by many countries as a terror
01:01organization, have not yielded tangible results on the ground.
01:06As for Israel and Hamas, both sides are making the agreement based on political conditions
01:11and interests.
01:12A partial withdrawal may happen, but a full withdrawal and the handing over of weapons are unlikely.
01:18So we will remain trapped in the same cycle, the same fear, and the same state of confusion we are
01:24living in now.
01:26Every day there are assassinations, every day there is death, bombing and suffering.
01:31Every day people are being displaced and every day the yellow line moves farther into the west.
01:35Even when we go out into the streets, we go out afraid.
01:37I swear to God, whenever I walk down any street, I do so in fear.
01:41Since the ceasefire began, more than 1,200 people have been killed by Israeli fire, according to Gaza's Ministry of
01:49Health.
01:57People were fleeing while I was rushing toward where the incident happened.
02:02When I got within about 10 meters, I saw the boy lying face down, his rucksack on his back.
02:08I screamed, got closer, turned him over and saw blood on the ground.
02:25He had been hit in the neck.
02:38Jad wasn't the only one killed that day in Jabalia in northern Gaza.
02:43When my son was killed, another young man from the Almacuzi family and an older man from the Abudan family
02:49were also killed near a World Food Program distribution point.
02:53The injured were mostly passes by. There were people left paralyzed, two cases from the Al-Azbu family and Hamid
03:00Saleh family.
03:01Innocent people. We thought there was a ceasefire, but honestly there is no ceasefire.
03:06We asked the Israeli military for a statement on the strike, but did not receive an answer by the time
03:12of publication.
03:13For Yusuf, all that remains now is grief and small ways of holding on to his son.
03:22He was childish. He loved to play and he loved birds. I even have a bird here now that reminds
03:29me of him.
03:29I bought a second pair for him. I tell myself, Jad is gone, but somehow Jad is still here.
03:38Maybe hearing the birds sound feels like Jad is back.
03:41Puh, Jad is back.
03:44Puh, Puh, Puh.
03:46Woo, Puh, Puh.
03:46Puh, Puh, Puh.
03:47Puh, Puh, Puh.
03:48Puh, Puh, Puh, Puh, Puh.
03:49Puh, Puh, Puh, Puh.
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