With every day that goes by, the ceasefire in Gaza,
if we can even still call it that, seems increasingly fragile.
Arab countries have offered a plan.
American diplomats met with Hamas, but so far, no agreement and no consensus.
For the people in Gaza, survival is getting harder by the day.
About a week ago, Israel once again cut off power,
which is important because there are still 2 million people living in Gaza,
and power helps bring them clean water, and clean water helps keep them alive.
I'm Hanna Rosen, and this is Radio Atlantic.
Over a year ago, we did an episode about a man named Marwan Bardaweel.
He's a water engineer in Gaza,
someone who's regularly calculating inflows, outflows, reviewing plans,
engineering new ideas to keep the Gazans with some access to clean water,
regardless of peace, war, whatever's going on politically.
And something about this bureaucrat trying day after day to keep the water
on really captured the growing desperation of the war.
Like he was just an ordinary guy trying to do a job that was hard before October 7th
and continue to get more impossible by the day.
When we finished that episode, Marwan was still in Gaza.
Like thousands of Gazans, when the war began.