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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.

00:11 "I don't know how I made it out alive" - Plestia Al-Khad, compiled by Abik Patacharya of Outlook from Instagram.

00:20 Palestinian journalist, Plestia Al-Khad, has been sharing the everyday struggle for survival in the ravaged city of Gaza.

00:28 She turned 22 on December 10.

00:31 Dense smoke, dust, debris, rubble, broken windows, discarded memories, lost homes, unidentified photo albums - these were her birthday gifts.

00:44 She posted videos, photos and journal entries chronicling the war and its impact on her homeland since October 7.

00:53 Her Instagram handle, @byplestia, that used to be a space for posting her social life updates,

01:00 her spending time at libraries, restaurants or the beach at Gaza with her friends,

01:06 is no longer a virtual space for giving life updates. It now works as evidence that she is still alive.

01:15 This is Plestia's journey from the day her house was bombed to the present moment when she awaits a ceasefire.

01:23 October 9. Plestia walks through her neighbour's houses and rushes to check on her parents.

01:29 Deafening sounds of bombs, shaky window panes and smoke are the witnesses.

01:34 The sounds of sirens intensify. A pause. Another bomb. Fortunately, she's still alive.

01:42 October 10. In the impenetrable darkness, Plestia runs. Runs for her life.

01:48 They have bombed some apartments in her building. But there's an update. I still don't know how I made it out alive.

01:55 Turns out, not the whole house is burned. October 11. No electricity, no internet, no water.

02:03 Ambulance can't even reach any place. She went to her house. Though it is still there, it is ravaged.

02:10 Within the rubble of a nearby house, she finds family photographs, albums of unidentified people.

02:17 Who are these people lost in the dust? For this and more, read the year-ender issue of Outlook.