Every morning, my brother Ahmed and I pick up empty containers and start walking.

Not to school. Not to work. Just to look for water.

We walk for kilometers under the burning summer sun, carrying heavy jugs that get harder to lift with every step. This isn't clean drinking water. It isn't safe. It's simply the only water we can find.

This video shows the whole journey, from the moment we leave our tent until we finally fill the containers and make the long walk back. It looks simple on camera, but no video can show how exhausting it really is. No words can make you feel what it's like when something as basic as water becomes a daily struggle.

This isn't something you see on the news. You might hear that there's a ceasefire, but our reality never stopped being a fight for survival.

Why are we still living like this?

Why does finding water have to take half the day?

Why has this become normal for us?

Sometimes I wonder if this is what the rest of our lives will look like. Walking under the sun for water that isn't even clean, then returning to a tent and doing it all again the next morning.

We are not asking for luxury. We are trying to reach the most basic thing a human being needs to stay alive.

I'm sharing this because I want people outside Gaza to see what life actually looks like here. Not the headlines. Not the numbers.

Just one ordinary day in our lives.

This is the journey you don't see.

This is our reality.

Will We Ever Live Normally Again?