In this pilot episode of Gaza Voices, you’ll hear the story of the first days following the events of October 7th, 2023, from the perspective of Omar Alrabi - a 26 year old from Gaza City.

Omar's account covers the moment-to-moment decisions he and his family faced as they navigated unreliable information around evacuating Gaza. How his family dealt with the onset of food scarcity. And the survivor’s guilt that Omar and others who were able to leave Gaza, experience.

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Chapters:

Intro, (0:00 )

About Omar and Gaza, (2:14 )

Gaza Under Siege, (5:46 )

Escape and Displacement, (17:23 )

Emotional Hardship, Loss, and the Greatest Fear, (31:28 )

Evacuation from Gaza and the Aftermath of Leaving, (40:07 )

Call for Support from the World, (52:54 )

Transcript:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vTua2lqlkzd5uhQI8wAZk5dI0h9fPhiV_4GAFqR1_Y/edit?usp=sharing

Music Credits:

Zaytun by Dania (intro)

The Well by Alexandra Spence (outro)

Child of War by Chino Amobi 

LL by CEO

Sources:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/14/a-guide-to-the-gaza-strip

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2023/10/17/palestines-startup-ecosystem-has-represented-economic-hope-war-is-decimating-it/?sh=430cc0da21a4

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/pauses-corridors-and-safe-zones-gaza-rhetoric-vs-reality

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/16/why-israels-gaza-evacuation-order-so-alarming

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/13/1205672587/israel-warns-evacuate-northern-gaza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghazi_(camp) 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/02/world/middleeast/gaza-map-displaced-people.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/17/fears-grow-people-are-dehydrating-to-death-in-gaza-as-clean-water-runs-out

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/the-unprecedented-internal-displacement-in-gaza/%23:~:text%3DThe%2520internal%2520displacement%2520situation%2520in,quite%2520literally%252C%2520nowhere%2520to%2520go&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1712186800124320&usg=AOvVaw2qLTPy-PcgSk0Jpr5EHXIX

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/11/01/76-wounded-palestinians-and-335-foreigners-in-first-evacuations-from-gaza-refugee-camp-struck-again_6219756_4.html

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/jan/08/palestinians-flee-gaza-rafah-egypt-border-bribes-to-brokers

https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2024/displacement-israel-war-on-gaza-no-safe-place/

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza%25E2%2580%2593Israel_conflict&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1712179563630036&usg=AOvVaw3ubkoGliXN51LEBXykRn49

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/four-wars-old&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1712179563630573&usg=AOvVaw0vnkLKi3R8uXST9tNwP19a