Al Jazeera’s digital documentary series, Close Up, reached out to Palestinians in Gaza in November and asked them to record whatever they could over the course of a day, on any devices that still worked.

This compilation of people’s moments provides a snapshot of just one of these 70 days of the fighting, where even the most mundane of tasks — such as showering, doing laundry and preparing meals — has become impossibly hard.

Where fear is constant and palpable, that at any moment death could strike from above, as Israel relentlessly bombs the entire length of the besieged strip from morning to night.

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