"God willing, when the war ends, I will repair my shop," says hairdresser and barber Abdullah Ramadan as he reopens his salon amid the rubble in the Bureij camp in Gaza. The war was triggered by Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel that resulted in the deaths of 1,194 people, according to an AFP tally. The militants also seized 251 hostages. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 37,658 people in Gaza, says the Hamas-run health ministry.
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00:00I don't want to hear a word of this nonsense.
00:09You're the one who's talking, and I'm the one who's talking.
00:23The war broke out in Dar al-Muraha.
00:27So we stood with him, and Abdallah was the only one left.
00:30The rest of the guys helped us, and we cleaned up the place.
00:34And when Abdallah came back, we found him.
00:36And the smell of Abdallah in the street came back.
00:46Thank God, I opened my shop again, and the guys came.
00:50They were happy.
00:52And the shop was fixed, and people started coming.
00:55They said, where are the people? We missed you.
00:58And thank God, people are coming back.
01:00And when the war is over, I'll rebuild my shop and make it better.
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