I'm Simon Maybin and you're listening to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
For assignment, this is Four Months in Gaza.
Such a hearing is basically a celebration because there might be possibly a ceasefire.
This is Hania Al Jamal.
She's a 28-year-old Palestinian who lives in Gaza and works for an aid charity.
It's July 7th, 2025.
The weather is hot very much so that the other day someone said I don't know how the sky knows it's July already.
All the ceasefire conversations are clearing up feelings of hope that are quite torturous in terms of whenever you get the news that it might be happening for sure.
feel happy or relieved or both and then you realise there's another news that says the entire opposite.
Hania's been recording the sounds around her and audio diaries for me
since June when she sent daily entries over the course of a week for a documentary called One Week in Gaza.
Foreign journalists like me are banned by Israel from reporting freely from Gaza.
So Hania's diaries are a way of hearing what it's really like living through the war there.
Sorry, I need to clarify what the noise is.
There is a couple of guys playing volleyball and it's very innovative.
So there's no net.
There's a single line that is literally tied to one of the things that are poking out of the blown-up building that is next to the guy's playing.
But they seem to be having lots of fun, as you might be hearing.
Hanya's been forced to move five times by the wall and is living in a tiny apartment with her parents and five siblings in Daryl Balagh,
in the centre of the 41-kilometre Gaza Strip.