A powerful audio diary from Gaza: Two Gazans film a year under attack by Israel. Aya and Khalid's stories are two of four featured in a new BBC World Service and Storyville documentary, Life and Death in Gaza. The film, and the radio documentary, form part of a group of programmes on BBC, marking one year on from 7 October and the war between Israel and Hamas. Also on the programme: Why North Korea is blowing up roads next to South Korea; why Google wants to go nuclear; a big advance in treatment for cervical cancer. And Al Pacino explains why, at the age of 84, he has decided to publish his memoirs. (Photo: Khalid and his son. Credit: BBC)
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Pretty much every day we get updates from health officials in Gaza.
They're the casualty figures.
Since October 7 last year, today's 42,344 Palestinians have been killed, 99,013 have been injured.
They're figures which defy easy comprehension, partly because they're so big and partly, of course, because they're hotly disputed.
Israel says that, firstly, you cant trust the Hamas run health ministry, and secondly, they dont take account of the large number of militants whom theyve killed.
But by any definition, the suffering in Gaza has been immense this past year.
And its not just about those whove died, but those who are struggling in the worst circumstances just to live.
Since the first days of the israeli offensive following the Hamas led massacre of 1200 Israelis, Khalid, a father of five children, and Aya, a 23 year old law graduate, have been documenting their struggle to survive.