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>> anthony: many, if not most of these guys, are not too sympathetic to my country or my ethnicity i'm guessing. but there's that hospitality thing. anywhere you go in the muslim world it seems, no matter what, you feed your guests, you do your best to make them feel at home. >> laila: oh, we have to eat, maybe we should -- [ speaks arabic ] >> laila: ah, you're supposed to eat this with your hands. mmm, very good. [ speaks arabic ] >> laila: he's saying if-- if you eat this you shouldn't have another meal for 3 days. >> anthony: where does this dish come from originally? >> laila: this is a d...

>> kid on street: hello, hello, hello. >> anthony: first impressions of the camp, there's a remarkable number of kids. [ speaks arabic ] >> abbed: now it's about 6,000 people and 2/3rds are under 18 years old so it's a very young population. unfortunately with the continuous degradation of political and economic situation, we are in a situation where we have no playgrounds or green spaces anymore. >> anthony: children play in the streets beneath wall covered in images of martyrs, plane hijackers, political prisoners. >> anthony: 6,000 people of that number, 66 percent are under the age of 18 a...

This kind of grim, you know, cinderblock landscape. you're not entering into the private homes and what does a kitchen look like, and what does, you know a family you see here. >> laila: do you like it, she's asking. >> anthony: oh it's absolutely delicious. really, really good. >> laila: yeah? she wants you to open a restaurant for her. [ laughs ] >> anthony: keep cooking like this, it's really delicious. >> laila: gaza has three distinctive, culinary heritages. those who hail from villages that were either depopulated or destroyed in 1948, uh-and they constitute about 75% of the population o...

[ speaks arabic ] they're very concerned that we're being very rude and we're not. >> anthony: yeah eat. >> laila: we're not allowing, no the others to eat. no, he's saying how can you be eating and you're letting everyone stand. >> anthony: wow. >> laila: for me, being from gaza, being a child of diaspora, i always thought food was a really interesting way to be able to tell the palestinian story. being able to discover this lost history, this palestinian past. plus, the food is really damn good. >> anthony: right that it is. >> laila: and it was i think also important to be able to provide p...

Interest. so, off we go. i figure, this'll take a minute. >> anthony: we arrive at what looks like a pretty serious gathering. this is a diwan and we're soon joined by un sultan's husband, abu. >> laila: it's an area where kind of where the elders gather to, you know, resolve community problems, to you know, kind of advise. >> anthony: all of these guys are from biral sabi, now part of israel. so they're bound together by traditions and a way of life very different from here, where they have been relocated and lived since 1948. >> anthony: does he think he'll be able to go to his ancestral hom...