half of this past, so i had indeed kept her job as a waitress. she's an interior designer who says she's lost to job since the war started. even at this cafe delayed off many male employees and needed me because my salary is less for me in the base, not enough to sustain the family. how the city and workers in israel used to bring much needed cash to the occupied to us to bank. they were estimated the 22 percent of the workforce before the war. now that israel has found their entry, they barely make up 2 points, the percent, according to a recent survey by the international labor organization. another office to can facing the economy is israel's decision to withhold tax revenue that belongs to the palestinian authority. the p a has been struggling to pay it into use their salaries in full, which hinders the economy cycle even more. so it is real,

has been systematically undermining the palestinian economy for decades by controlling the palestinian resources and the lands. it created a weak economy dependent on israel and withheld the palestinian authorities money to minimize its rule. in dealing with the crisis, business owners say they are left alone facing the financial crunch. that's what some of the local authorities a note making emergency laws, decisions to help us of on this task period of the one of the hardest hit sectors in palestine is tourism. the church of the nativity is one of the main tours that directions here. and i mean source of ink for palestinians know, many stores here have closed down, and people say every day this will continues. it adds another burden on the short and long term. one. they might need decades to recover from the day, but i am just the to the occupied westbank palestine. i want to take you back to

you guys are now for the latest from the israel is currently conducting in 10 strikes right across the strip. these live pictures from outside of the hospital and the obama and central gaza. we understand they have been multiple explosions in the area around that hospital bill. so no family of 6 tell us indians have also been killed in the bridge refugee camp attack as well. well, that's all for me to him, a crime for the moments and use continues here on the al jazeera after the stream, which is coming up. the colleges when

when i say gaza, what do you see? what images come to mind for many people it'll be the death and destruction of the last few months. but there is another side to gaza, which is residents. it seems the highlights. it's, you see, i'm remembering that now is his own form of resistance. i'm mariann faucet, and this is the street of the most beautiful sunsets families clicking on the beach teenagers riding horses through cobbled streets. the destruction of a people. genocide comes through the destruction of its culture with over 60 percent of all homes and garza in ruins. what is truly last be on the bricks and so, and does the i c, j examines the case against is ro, how are young palestinians resisting this attempt at racial photographers?

so hey, nah, sorta takes us through the streets of his home city and the memories which will ever live there. a lot of my have a memory is ever when i walk down the the, the way to the sea. i remember it was beside the cafe of gas. in the same street, there was a feller and then scared me sensor to my friends fad, which is completely destroyed right now the what's from not me. all the places that we had a gun now except the sea because they would never destroy. it will remain for ever

. here we are in the beach of gauze and 60 pacifically in there. so many people that lives in garza, they can, we can probably, we can go anywhere. so the be the only the only priest for them is the, is the goal is a beach like 80 percent of them. i put the graphs on the my instagram page. it contains, it contains a 1000 feet the for us as a photographer, it's to important to document to the daily life daily themes, the landscape of the city. it's a sign of resilience that we exist. and we do have a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful city. and we wish that we mean we can one day we

been vis, add on. so i'm so glad that i had the opportunity to photograph these a whole lot. i keep looking for all the life of securing my simon for uh, tennessee and on our home is the freedom line. thank you so hey, oh, for sharing that with us. my next guest is a social media legends who runs the eye clinic. why i love garza series an award winning rice, a, an office human rights advocates, boons of palestinian refugees from gaza. he joins us today from washington dc. welcome, no head of i. yes. thank you so much for to thank you for being

a 9 to tell us why you saw. so it'd be, i love gauze, the series and what kind of reactions you've had to it so far. so was, was actually started 2 months before this genocide the last time, but it is, it is new to the city of cause up me personally, i've been there, i would say $56.00 times and every time it just blew me away. the kind of misconceptions surrounding it as being misplaced, that's, you know, this, this, this backwards and develops. when in reality it's really that was just such a high functioning, rich society and continues to be because of the, you know, the, the resilience and the steadfastness, creativity. that's people um they're able to create this beauty. and so i just wanted to explore that. and what kind of reactions have you had to i can imagine maybe a mix or there has been

a mix. it has been very interesting. there have been essentially, mostly a very positive reaction. a lot of there's, there's 3 charges that i'll go through quickly. there's the, there's a category of, uh, possibly incentive utsa who are very, always happy to be dignified enough listed in to have their duties shown. um, and then there's the side of a people in the west to, you know, not necessarily seen this kind of duty or history interest on it. and then the 3rd category are a lot of tools, comments, who are offended by the prospect of guys a being a beautiful place or a place that elicits joy for people. and think that that somehow indicates the fact that the ones that is under caesar occupation. well, to occur that this comment on the one is the hills per suggests. many people have no idea what life was like in gauze before october the 7th, even if life was incredibly hard under the blockade then to this pass and says, i didn't even know it looked like that. this is my 1st time seeing the before pick

. i feel like the media does this intentionally to make you think gaza always looks that way. 9. do you feel a responsibility to remind people that these images of rule can be the humanizing in their own way, even if it is, of course important to see them you know, it's tricky. and on these things i always take you from palestinian. so live in the us. uh uh, i have no right subject to dictate um, you know, what's, what's right or wrong for, for the narrative to be, you know, in terms of what images should go out. but i think maybe both are important. i think that it's important to show images afford support to show the disruption, but people should have a sense of that before it should have a sense of the potential of, of so which is huge. so tell us about that. what is it that we are missing out when we only see the images of destruction? tell us about the other side,

the b. c. there's the beauty of the what it existed regardless of the door and, and that i would include the role regardless of the genocide in the organization and that i would include the thousands of your history. i would include the smiles that would include the, the culture, the are the hospitality. and of course the c. uh but then there's also the other kind of beauty which i think is when all of these things are destroyed or most of them are uh, you know, estimated theres been the beauty of those that bounces back. i think my mom for the past, she said the beauty of god, sir, is the way the life finds its cracks between the shadow of the shadows of darkness . so i think that that's the case for people who live there. well, and you've kindly done an instant ratio interview for us with your mother and your

grandfather. before we get into that, can you tell us about the 1st time you visited garza and how it compared maybe to any perceptions you might have had of it as someone born in exile? oh wow. uh, the 1st time i visit is because uh, it doesn't count. i was that was a baby. but this, the 1st, the 2nd time when i was, i think, you know, as a teenager and i had been, i guess, brought up in the less with this bill sense of air of identity and more specifically palestinian identity. even though my parents told me it was important, i always thought of it as a you know, i would be like i said, a deep part of me didn't feel reluctant to associated with it. and didn't feel that it was a very dangerous place in a place to actually to avoid at all costs. and so i was nervous when we went there, and then i was just i was blown away. i felt that for the 1st time

and stealing from my sister here, she said everyone else feels like she's floating. and as i saw her feet was requesting the grant, there was a sense of for the 1st time there's a place in the world that actually, oh your frontier. and i'll never forget that feeling. well, let me know, hey, it's mother somebody who is reading a poem. she has written about her sister home the the landscape constantly changes on the the c remains the president, mr. can and then mark, i'm touched by human greed and destruction. oblivious to war occupation as aggression, defiant to the rules of man,

it didn't braces the shores of a password. it makes a mockery of those who tried to break its spirit. those who think they can contain it's one and a half 1000000, beating hearts. or there is no limit to the sea suggested to it breaks the siege as 3 day one, defiance waves at a time connecting tanza to the rest of the world. and connecting the world to the shots it was the whole world is out there. if only you click right to see its own deep, your body was bullet proof. if only your boat was made of steel, if only you agree with the landscape will change. once

on the sea will remain the same. it's rushing waves. where was the news here? of all she tires that have come now had the sea, it breaks the siege every day. there were no limits to it's oh that's it to you. i am struck by so many elements that your mother raises in that use a full power in the symbolism of resilience, the possibilities of freedom, the connection to the weld is that another story of gaza that you would like people to here, as well as the symbolizes so much to see, to me in the column, and i think on some level to all the people who live in nevada is the mark of attorney and possibility between barbed wire. you know, on, you have a, a white wire on 3 sides. but then on the 4th side, what's this?

you have this unchanging c and c is a reminder of your, your history as a, as a mediterranean people. but it's also a reminder of your connection to the world. you, unless verizon i mean i, we can watch the data forever, but it's just so i think that, um, i strong, i strongly felt like palestinians in the us that would not have the resilience that they have today would not have the and again, this was forced upon them, we have to remember this. uh, it's not normal for them to be suffering this much, but i don't believe that they would have been able to suffer this much and be this . this iron wills, without the softness of the sea that reminds them that he reminds them that there's something to live for. that's just so cosmic and

so and for that i don't know if that makes sense. absolutely make sense. or you also spoke with your grandfather about gaza and his memories of the sea. he was forced to flee gauze or in 1967. that's taking this and get the discount through all the heavy summer where she told me to have to have a some water wall motor whole. so i love to believe i'm good demo where you bought. i've been there have got to show me how well the i live at home. good job here with the sigma head will some, oh, will do the fishing? what is the model and what's the, what the hell? the problem be done and before what it might have, just a literally as a when was i love when he told me more about the golden rule,

guess my id and i'm guess i'm a government that me that's what the lawyer own. hardly more than a demo. bah, hello demo. moving sure. now, when the lease um and stuff. well honestly, if a little less than uh once it gets big, be set up. the deluxe. uh well, the 50 we should be her job. well were did what? uh. so i'm gonna put you off. well, lemme instructions tomorrow. uh, let me the uh, one of the general demo. who am i gonna do all the shop for the demo and some, uh, that have some nice. i wanna ask you, what's the most important part of your grandfather's message that you will carry through is in next generation of palestinians. well,

it's for my grant, but he was a sold from because uh, 1967 and everywhere he looks for a home overseas. it was always next to the seat. he always looked for a beach which he could kinda stab the horizon and dream about spencer. and i think that the beach then that's where he writes a lot of his poetry. and that's where i got a lot of inspiration and my mom gets a lot of inspiration. so i think that goes to show you that in the same way that the c inspires, comes out is to uh, you know, to think of their freedom. and i hate to separate because i always from palestinians, but specifically this idea that it traps they feel tracts from the world and the see reminds them of the zillow of the world for us outside of clubs that we also feel trapped. we feel trapped from our place, our only home in the world. and so that's the see reminds us also

like we stay on the same. verizon embassy connects us. so i think that's another just really speak to the significance of the see and and my, uh, yeah, my, my grandpa, you know about some, i don't know what, uh, what his quote should look like if it weren't for the c o i, i want to bring in our the guess today, andrew mcconnell is a photographer and suffer from northern ireland, who is a gauze in 2010 to discover the subculture. i'm return to make a film. andrew, welcome to the show. what drew you from the west coast of island to the staffing community in gaza? hi, well thanks for helping me. um. yeah, i grew up certainly on the west coast of ireland and um, but i also grew up in the north of ireland and you know, why that from a very early age we were exposed to all the same situation to i grew up with pulse

name, flags, fine, but my neighborhood and so i was curious some very early age, but what this was what it meant and i. ready became a photographer, but still at that point had any idea because it didn't, the color style guides and because it's a story that'd be so well covered over the decades that i didn't really see what i could bring to him. i wasn't until i read the short story about this group of surfers and guys with that. you know, it was like, i like people really. there's very few moments an artist like for you can have like something so powerful that you think, well, i have to go and cover this and the story in the beginning because i felt i understood how this thing and the situation there. and of course, i had no idea and over exposed to the west is conflict, especially from gaza. oh, you know, our images robles and destruction. and you know,

the question which occurred to me, which either way that you should really have anybody the doesn't seem to is a coordinate, people who lived there. and so within a few months i was in gaza. i met the surfers. i 1st published with the surface in 2010, so it may not find that important goal to city. and then they will come into this little community and it wasn't many of them. and, but while they represented was a different sort of resistance sort of probably not into the see and leading causes . but it was brief moment to me was just of the find, i finally beautiful way of resisting essentially the confinement and everything defy to ensure is there also in which is that have caused a stir among some is really, is that of palestinians enjoying some rest bite on the beach and gaza. this is what is randy john list you who to assessing. i had to say on channel 12,

the most watched tv channel in israel. these people that in gaza does of death. a ha, death, an agonizing death. and instead, we see them enjoying on the beach, having fun. they all know innocent people that in the gaza strip, they are now enjoying on the beach. no head. why do you think this picture has provoked so much anger? i mean, how do they, are they? how do people find one thing that makes them happy? how do they claim to be under a genocide and yet have access to a body of water? can you imagine that? um i, i think that for the mines in the mines is uh, design us and there's a reason why i left them comments on all of my stuff. i think their, their words are so incredibly telling in the mind design is there are 2

categories of policy and there's the, there's the miserable backward savage who's incapable of enjoying any of the pleasures or any of the things that makes the human enjoy their lives. anything that adds meaning to life and then there's the spoiled liar. uh, you know, like the palestinians who, oh look, they're having fun. oh, therefore they're not suffering enough to be able to claim to be colonized people unoccupied people, ebc storage on the side of people. so i leave these comments on because i cannot imagine anything more uh, a sinister then to be angry at people for enjoying the beach. i mean, what more that needs to be said. right, i mean up andrew palestinians in gaza. we're living on the occupation and a book

a prior to october. so it wasn't exactly rosy for them then. how do you capture the balance in your work between the truth of suffering and the resilience and the humanity of the people in, during it? well, you know, i want to really to make a film about what the nice of us and, and what is more simpler than going down to the beach and join the see a big part of the problem is, you know, many people have been subjected to dismiss conception of what god is on the postings are for the kids. you know, i mean, before we have social media and you know, you had to listen to this very spokesperson, who took them at face value and nobody really heard from the past and inside. so we went the way of thinking, this is what the situation is. and so it's my understanding, of course now we have pops in your places being heard more and more. i'm just

making a big difference in pricing when i did this. so like in, you know, we started in $1012.00 and there was less and less voices with 4 posts needs to have their voice heard. and so the problems was very simple. it was that show normal lives. we didn't want to focus on politics or conflict, but just in the way that the post, anything doesn't trace another. normally we try to make a film about normal life, but we couldn't because if you spend any amount of time in the you're going to vis a conflict and we was there during 2014 when the work. okay. i stayed for the duration. so we've been the phone and it's we see quite a bit of conflict, but it was important to get the bonds right. because that's much more interesting hearing from the people themselves and letting them tell their own story. and that's by somebody. but we tried to do with them. it now had um, given the amount of i, uh, that's uh, pictures of the palestinians,

enjoying little downtime on the beach. seems to cause is that perhaps an argument saying joy itself is a form of resistance in the the watching alger 0 live from dell? i'm sorry, i'm an allies the, these are life pictures that were bringing you from the alex, all special and central gaza. what there is a quite a bit of chaos that we're continuing coverage of. what is happening there. of course israel's assault on this trip has continued. we have seen attacks in refugee comes of both age and the kazi, on the say it out. but then we have also seen a civilians who have been killed in these attacks. and there is quite a bit of chaos at the deluxe, the hospital now and central gaza. and i remember that this is one of the few

functioning hospitals in the strip because causes health system has been pretty much in designated by this rule. it's actually, they've issued a number of urgent warnings about their inability to operate about the fact that they might completely break down. they need thousands of nice has a fuel to be able to operate. so not only do they have a shortage of supplies going into the strip because the land crossings have been closed. that is soft. the casing the area, they don't have enough medicines going in to be able to treat the patients. that fuel is also the critical thing, and that has prevented the hospital from functioning not just from dealing with casualties, not just from dealing with the you know, dozens, in some cases, hundreds of, of, of wounded patients from these attacks but also and treating the patients who have chronic illnesses, patients that might require kidney treatment till dialysis. and so that has been a sense of k else that the i likes the hospital that when the stuff medical was

a struggling to treat patients, many of them were seeing images of patients who are alive on the floor waiting for hours to receive treatment. because this hospital is simply of a capacity, but it is at 3 times of a capacity website. but it is one of the few functioning facilities left in gaza as we see an intensification of attacks in the southernmost city of gaza. and rafa has also been continuing it activity as strikes showing in northern gaza. we, one thing we have seen over the past few days is a shop rise and the number of the tags on the, on refugee accounts for displaced people. and we've been focusing particularly on a but a lot of the on the side on that street, the end of the whole thing. she has been following developments and gaza very closely for us now. and you are in darrell by law. what can you tell us about what

is happening there and the strikes in central gaza. ok, so i'm currently in a lot of the hospitals or injuries and not coming in clyde at the hospital from different areas. we're talking about areas like that. it's been about ready to come every day and, and because the course this area has been under intense bombardment since the early hours of the morning. we're talking about our southern returning, we're talking about air strikes and we're also talking about live and munition from the worship. we saw a couple of a target surrounding the house. there was a massive asterix on one of the houses very close to the i'll at the hospital very right. are right now, and we're top and they can't lead because it's very dangerous and i'm getting interested not to stop transferring injuries. i'm not only ambulances,

we're talking about people don't get cars, cars, anyone trying to has as much as possible. i talked to a lot of injuries from a permanent company. they said that it was, woke up on intense are, tell me recently where the, the, the show of the houses and they got injured and it was a merry cool. how they evacuated and gone down to their houses because those are the tanks are stationed on. i'm still not being broad, it's still intensifying me to still here are tend to be shunting in the background and the hospitals are, oh, well, you can't imagine the people are on the poor. methics volunteers, everyone is trying to has them. there is no place for them when they're even trying to.