I'm Ayesha Roscoe and this is a Sunday story where we go beyond the news of the day to bring you one big story.
This month, NPR's Daniel Estrin entered Gaza for the first time in more than two years.
He departed from Tel Aviv.
Without door cafes, high rises life.
And in just one hour, driving along Israeli highways, I arrived at the Israeli fence with Gaza.
He joined a military embed into Gaza with the Israeli military.
This is the only way for journalists to enter Gaza as Israel continues to bar journalists from independent access.
I entered in an Israeli military vehicle with 11 other journalists.
So we've driven right through the Israeli fence.
There are a couple of Israeli military jeeps behind us.
And within minutes, we were at this Israeli military outpost.
And we were taken to an outlook.
Finally, he was able to see for himself what parts of Gaza look like today.
I climbed up to the top of a dirt berm.
And the first thing you see is just this endless expanse of rubble.
It's colorless, gray cement mangled, what used to be homes and schools.
I mean, I'm struggling to describe it.
We've seen pictures of destruction in Gaza,
but to stand there and to take it all in, feels like something entirely different.
Last month on October 8th,