Traditional clay pottery is seeing a resurgence in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians are forced to find solutions for a shortage of plates and other crockery to eat from in the territory ravaged by more than a year of war. "There is an unprecedented demand for plates as no supplies enter the Gaza Strip," says 26-year-old potter Jafar Atallah in the central Gaza city of Deir el-Balah.
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00:00There is a very unusual demand on the plates, because there is something going on in Gaza
00:22and all the people are displaced and all of them are displaced from their homes and their
00:28villages and they are displaced here and there in the streets and thrown here and there,
00:32they don't have any tools, they don't have anything, they depend on the pottery,
00:36they depend on the things that they can carry themselves with.
00:40Today, all the people depend on the pottery, which they can put their food in,
00:45their dishes, they can eat from it, because there is nothing to put in it.
00:49Everything is destroyed, everything is broken, everything is gone.
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