SHOTLIST:

GAZA, PALESTINE (NOV. 30, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL)

1. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIAN CARPENTER ATIYYE MIKDAD AND CARPENTERS WORKING IN YARD WITH BOATS ON GROUND

2. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIAN CHILD CARRYING FIBERGLASS WOOL / CUTTING AND PUTTING FIBERGLASS AND FIBERGLASS WOOL ONTO BOAT

3. CARPENTERS WORKING ON BOATS

4. VARIOUS OF MIKDAD CUTTING WOODS/ NAILING WOODS ONTO BOAT

5. ANOTHER CARPENTER PAINTING BOAT (TWO SHOTS)

6. VARIOUS OF ANOTHER CARPENTER CUTTING, SENDING AND SCREWING PIECES

7. PALESTINIAN MAN RIDING HORSE CART

8. VARIOUS OF BOATS ON BEING PLACES ON HORSE CART/ BOAT BEING CARRIED AND BEING PUT ON GROUND

9. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN CARPENTER ATIYYE MIKDAD SAYING:

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"We rebuilt it piece by piece — around six different parts were gathered and assembled. It was just leftovers, and we turned it into a functioning small boat."
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10. VARIOUS OF MIKDAD CARRYING BROKEN BOAT PIECES

11. VARIOUS OF FISHERMEN MOVING ON SEA ON BOARD PLASTIC PIECES USED AS BOATS

12. SEA

13. FISHERMEN WORKING NEXT TO BOATS

14. FISHERMAN WALKING IN SHALLOW WATER

15. FISHERMEN WORKING NEXT TO BOATS GAZA, PALESTINE - NOV. 30, 2025: A Palestinian carpenter is breathing life back into heavily damaged fishing boats, using salvaged wood from destroyed houses, as two years of Israeli attacks have devastated Gaza’s fishing industry.

Many fishermen are now forced to venture into the sea on makeshift plastic boards, while around 4,500 others were left without a source of income after their boats were destroyed.

Palestinian carpenter Atiyye Mikdad tries to support fishermen by repairing damaged boats using pieces of wood he salvages from the ruins of destroyed houses, combining the reclaimed materials with costly fiberglass.

Mikdad said they receive boats that are 50% damaged and still manage to fix them by assembling pieces from other damaged boats. Showing a boat in his workshop, he said: "We rebuilt it piece by piece — around six different parts were gathered and assembled. It was just leftovers, and we turned it into a functioning small boat."

Gaza’s government media office said the army has violated the ceasefire about 591 times, killing 357 people and injuring 903 others.

Since October 2023, the Israeli army has killed more than 70,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, and injured over 171,000 others in a brutal assault that also left the enclave in ruins.

Reporting by Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea / Writing by Ayse Elif Erdis