Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will retain "security responsibility" for Gaza, once the fighting stops.

But when will that be? The war with Hamas is now in its second month. Thousands of Gazans have died, many buried beneath rubble, as a result of Israeli airstrikes. The living struggle to find food, shelter and water.

For Palestinian-Australians like Samah Sabawi, a poet and a writer living in is Melbourne, it’s a nightmare. Sabawi has 75 family members in Gaza, where she was born.

Today, she joins Samantha to discuss what her family is experiencing in the battle-strewn territory. And what Palestinians in Gaza think of Hamas.

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