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#OutlookMagazine Anniversary Issue | I don't know how I made it out alive
OutlookIndia
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1/11/2024
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I am Pragya and I bring to you excerpts from the year-ender issue titled "We Bear Witness".
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The issue is dedicated to the people of Gaza and what they went through.
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"I don't know how I made it out alive" - Plestia Al-Khad, compiled by Abik Patacharya of Outlook from Instagram.
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Palestinian journalist, Plestia Al-Khad, has been sharing the everyday struggle for survival in the ravaged city of Gaza.
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She turned 22 on December 10.
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Dense smoke, dust, debris, rubble, broken windows, discarded memories, lost homes, unidentified photo albums - these were her birthday gifts.
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She posted videos, photos and journal entries chronicling the war and its impact on her homeland since October 7.
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Her Instagram handle, @byplestia, that used to be a space for posting her social life updates,
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her spending time at libraries, restaurants or the beach at Gaza with her friends,
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is no longer a virtual space for giving life updates. It now works as evidence that she is still alive.
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This is Plestia's journey from the day her house was bombed to the present moment when she awaits a ceasefire.
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October 9. Plestia walks through her neighbour's houses and rushes to check on her parents.
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Deafening sounds of bombs, shaky window panes and smoke are the witnesses.
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The sounds of sirens intensify. A pause. Another bomb. Fortunately, she's still alive.
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October 10. In the impenetrable darkness, Plestia runs. Runs for her life.
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They have bombed some apartments in her building. But there's an update. I still don't know how I made it out alive.
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Turns out, not the whole house is burned. October 11. No electricity, no internet, no water.
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Ambulance can't even reach any place. She went to her house. Though it is still there, it is ravaged.
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Within the rubble of a nearby house, she finds family photographs, albums of unidentified people.
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Who are these people lost in the dust? For this and more, read the year-ender issue of Outlook.
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