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Released Palestinian detainees share their stories as more aid allowed into Gaza · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Diggers have begun clearing rubble in Gaza. Some aid is
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  Speaker 1: getting in. Palestinian prisoners released by Israel on Monday have
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  Speaker 1: been sharing their stories. Our Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson
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  Speaker 1: has worked with freelancers in Gaza to compile this report
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  Speaker 1: about one former detainees' experience. As he returned home.
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  Speaker 2: They told him there was nothing to come back to.
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  Speaker 2: Shaddy said that his house was gone and all his
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  Speaker 2: family were dead. For Shaddy Abusido, after twenty months in
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  Speaker 2: Israeli detention, the arms of his wife were overwhelming, the
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  Speaker 2: sight of his children too much to take in. After
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  Speaker 2: the lies of an Israeli intelligence officer had broken him,
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  Speaker 2: he said, this was the moment he came alive again.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't get hey, Laza.
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  Speaker 3: It was an indescribable moment, psychological shock, after all this destruction,
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  Speaker 3: after all these martyrs, family was still alive. He'd been
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  Speaker 3: lying when he told me he killed your family, We
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  Speaker 3: killed your children. His words were stuck.
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  Speaker 2: Shaddy arrived back in Gaza yesterday, one of almost two
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  Speaker 2: thousand Palestinian prisoners exchanged for Israeli hostages under the first
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  Speaker 2: phase of Donald Trump's peace plan. A photo journalist himself.
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  Speaker 2: He was filmed by TV crews taking his first steps
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  Speaker 2: back on home soil, looking lethargic and drained. Today we
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  Speaker 2: filmed him again a different man. Shaddy said an Israeli
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  Speaker 2: officer showed him proof his family house had been bombed.
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  Speaker 2: The Prison Service said they operated in line with the
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  Speaker 2: law and were not aware of any such incidents taking place.
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  Speaker 2: Shaddi also accuses Israeli forces of physical abuse, beginning with
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  Speaker 2: his detention at Shifa Hospital while reporting there in March
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  Speaker 2: last year.
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  Speaker 3: He tied me up naked and started beating me. I
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  Speaker 3: have broken ribs. They heal the wrong wind. That was
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  Speaker 3: the first type of torture they did. They kept me
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  Speaker 3: naked for more than ten hours in the middle of winter.
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  Speaker 2: We put his allegations to the Israeli Army, which said
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  Speaker 2: it needed more information and that it obeyed Israeli an
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  Speaker 2: international law. This morning, Shaddy woke in terror at five am.
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  Speaker 2: The war around him has stopped, but his own battle
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  Speaker 2: for peace and security has just begun. Lucy Williamson, BBC News, Romala.
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  Speaker 1: New Harbor Cher is an AID worker who used to
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  Speaker 1: live in Gaza, and she explained to me what a
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  Speaker 1: situation was.
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  Speaker 4: Now I'm with my small family here in Cairo since
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  Speaker 4: the last two years, but it's still my big extended family.
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  Speaker 4: They are still in the in velocity, actually all of us.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we are happy with the with the ceasfire
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  Speaker 4: and the stopping of war and on every day I'm
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  Speaker 4: talking to my family back in Gaza, and we feel
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  Speaker 4: optimistic and they are really happy. At least now they
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  Speaker 4: are trying to sleep well, they are not hitting too
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  Speaker 4: much of the drawn sounds in the sky. And there
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  Speaker 4: is a kind of like much food commodities available in
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  Speaker 4: the market.
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  Speaker 1: Right, so they are already noticing a difference in the
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  Speaker 1: amount of food that is available, and presumably the prices
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  Speaker 1: of essential items are beginning to come down.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, yeah, especially for example, if we give
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  Speaker 4: examples like the flower, it's decreased sharply because it's now
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  Speaker 4: available in the market. Still there are a couple of
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  Speaker 4: other commodities which still have high prices, and other commodities
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  Speaker 4: and goods which are not actually available at the market
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  Speaker 4: since the last You're at least like fresh and routine
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  Speaker 4: like meat, chicken, et cetera. It's not that much available.
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  Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, they can find flower,
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  Speaker 4: they can find vegetabiles, they can find some type of fruits,
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  Speaker 4: et cetera. So it's yeah, it's accessible, it's available in
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  Speaker 4: the markets, and we hope that this is fire will hold.
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  Speaker 1: You know, yes, and you have been working to try
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  Speaker 1: to bring AID into the territory. What are you noticing
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  Speaker 1: in the last few days, how much easier is that
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  Speaker 1: and what are you able to do?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay. Actually, I'm the executive director of Global Empowerment
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  Speaker 4: Mission MINA Palestine office, and we are since the last
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  Speaker 4: two years, we are working on delivering it in to Gaza,
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  Speaker 4: whether through procurement from Jerusalem or from Cairo or even
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  Speaker 4: from Cyprus. And in the last couple of days, I
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  Speaker 4: mean we are working hard to moving it into Gaza.
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  Speaker 4: And today, for example, we're going to have like a
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  Speaker 4: couple of around till tracks moving through Cunchhalon into Gaza.
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  Speaker 4: So I think, I mean the in delivery situation will
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  Speaker 4: be improved and we are looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: Basha speaking to me from career. Let's just show you
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  Speaker 1: one scene that we have live pictures coming from Gaza.
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  Speaker 1: Can units Actually these pictures showing a marketplace and a
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  Speaker 1: remarkable number of people in that marketplace really really bustling.
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  Speaker 1: Knuhar in that interview describing how there has been a
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  Speaker 1: visible increase in the amount of food and its availability,
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  Speaker 1: as well as the decrease in its prices. So people
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  Speaker 1: are starting to be able to get hold of things
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't before, who all, things that were simply too
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  Speaker 1: expensive basics and essentials