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00:00 I am Pragya and I bring to you excerpts from the current issue of Outlook titled "Trapped"
00:06 that looks at two cover stories, one where poor migrant workers trapped in a tunnel make
00:12 it alive after 17 traumatic days, the other for the Palestinians trapped in Gaza, the
00:18 ceasefire may be short-lived before the next round of attacks by Israel.
00:23 The other cover has illustration of the olive tree, a symbol of Palestinian culture and
00:30 resilience.
00:31 The Palestinian poet in exile Mahmoud Darwish has always used olive tree in his poetry.
00:37 Lines from his poem "The Second Olive Tree" reads, "The portrait for the olive tree is
00:42 neither green nor silver.
00:45 The olive tree is the color of peace if peace needed a color."
00:50 Over a million olive trees have been uprooted by the settlers in occupied Palestine since
00:55 1967 to build new settlements according to Harid's newspaper and other agencies.
01:02 Too little, too late by Rakhi Bose from Outlook.
01:06 The four-day-long humanitarian pause allowing a trickle of aid into Gaza after nearly two
01:12 months of indiscriminate bombing and 16 years of blockade offers bare respite for civilians
01:19 no more than that.
01:21 Photographs of bombed public shelters, food being cooked on makeshift huts and leaflets
01:27 with ominous threats to leave Gaza falling from the skies pop up unceasingly on Palestinian
01:34 lawyer and activist Ahmed Basouni's ex-formerly Twitter handle.
01:39 On October 8, a day after the deadly Hamas attack in Israel, Ahmed was one of the thousands
01:45 of Gazans to receive terse, air-dropped text messages from the Israeli government asking
01:51 them to evacuate and leave Gaza immediately.
01:55 At the time, he thought the messages were absurd.
01:58 But deep within, Ahmed knew that things were about to get much, much worse.
02:04 And they did.
02:05 Soon, bombs came hurtling down on residential areas in the Gaza Strip.
02:10 The enclaves turned to rubble.
02:12 It has been over six weeks since.
02:15 The duration has seen over 15,000 Gazans killed.
02:19 About 60% of these casualties have been women and children.
02:24 Ahmed has, however, managed to survive one of the most brutal assaults on Palestinian
02:29 soil in his lifetime.
02:31 On November 20, Ahmed survived the massacre at Dar al-Basouni in Bel Thanoon, a city located
02:39 to the northeast of the Strip.
02:40 My family and I are still alive, he said in a social media post to reassure his loved
02:46 ones.
02:47 But on November 25, on the first day of the truce, a four-day ceasefire for exchange of
02:54 hostages and prisoners, Ahmed got news of death.
02:58 As both sides braced for the exchange, Ahmed announced the death of his nephew Diab, along
03:05 with his cousins, Yasser and Adam.
03:07 My sister's son Diab is a 15-year-old child.
03:11 The army arrested him the day before yesterday on Salal and Deen Street while he was traveling
03:18 with his family from northern Gaza.
03:20 His brother Yamin has been missing for two weeks.
03:24 Ahmed is among the thousands of people living in nightmarish conditions for nearly two months
03:30 since Israel's offensive.
03:32 However, the Doha Institute-educated scholar refuses to leave Gaza.
03:37 We will not repeat what happened at Nagpa again.
03:41 I will not tell the stories of displacement and bombing to my children as our grandparents
03:47 did to us.
03:48 My family and I have decided to stay, he says.
03:52 For this and more, read the current issue of Outlook.