Palestinian business owners returned to what’s left of their once-vibrant shops in the war-torn Jabalia camp in Gaza. They struggle to make ends meet, hoping that their business will return to the good old days.
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00:00The place that I am in, as you can see, I had a floor here and a floor above, and as you can see, we had 200 tables.
00:20Today, from the 200 tables, we only have this broken table. We don't have anything else.
00:26I used to have about 12 workers here. Today, I am alone in this place, because there is no work.
00:32It has become bad. People don't have money with them. People have lost their money.
00:37Askar al-Jabaliya used to be here on the streets of Paris. It was one of the biggest streets in the Gaza Strip.
00:42This Trans Square used to be a source of income for all people.
00:47It was a source of income for the people of Safdawi, Adwan, Andonisi, and Beit Hanoun.
00:58All the areas used to be on this street.
01:01Why? Because it had all the things that people wanted from the markets.
01:06Today, the Trans Street is completely abandoned.
01:09This was our bakery. There were machines and a lot of machines.
01:14The work that we do today, as you can see, everything is destroyed.
01:20This is a five-story building. We work under it.
01:24Under the building.
01:26The machines that were available here do more work than the work that we do today.
01:32Today, all our work is manual.
01:34I'm not supposed to cut this. There's supposed to be a special cutter that cuts it.
01:40There's a special machine that kneads it.
01:43The work here was to supervise these machines.
01:47Today, all the work is done by hand. There's no achievement, of course.
01:51Here, we destroyed a lot of things. We lost a lot of things.
01:55Electric generators, as you can see, were destroyed.
01:59This is the second time.
02:01Three trains were completely destroyed.
02:04The station was partially destroyed.
02:07Of course, today, the raw materials or the machines that we're talking about,
02:13the filters for the station, are very, very difficult.
02:17They don't exist.
02:18The amount of water that was produced before the war,
02:22at the time, it produced about 25 cubic meters per hour.
02:27Today, it produces 15 cubic meters because of the destruction.
02:30There's a shortage of electricity.
02:32There's also a shortage of raw materials for the station.
02:36They don't exist.
02:37We don't want to be humiliated.
02:39We don't want to be humiliated.
02:42We want to come to war and bring peace and security to us and our neighbors.
02:51No matter what happens, no matter what happens,
02:56this is what I want, peace and security.
02:59That's all I want.
03:00I don't want anything else.
03:01And we'll go back, we'll put our hands together, and we'll rebuild this country.