Tears of Gaza

December 27.2008 Israel ececuted extensive military actions in Gaza, one of the worlds most populated areas. It lasted for 22 days.

More than 20.000 buildings, homes, factories and farms were completely or partly destroyed.

1387 were killed, 773 unarmed, mostly women and children.

257 under 16 years old.

5500 were wounded. More than 700 women and 1800 children require long term treatment.

This is the story of Yahya, Rasmima and Amira. June 2009 they made the following statemenst :

If I study well, I want to become a lawyer, -

- so that I can take the Israelis to court.

I dream of becoming a doctor.

So that I can treat and help those who are injured by the Israelis.

Life is really hard. Really.

Tears of Gaza

My father would take us to the beach, he would build a tent and we would -

- eat watermelons and honey-melons, and all sorts of things.

We would swim and he would caryy us on his back and swim.

We had lots of fun when we were to the beach with him.

Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

Master of the Day of the Judgement.

Thee do we worship, and Thine aid we seek.

Show us the straight way.

The path of those whom Thou hast favoured

- not the path of those who earn Thine anger. Aamiin.

When my father was murdered, it felt as if I lost the whole world.

We pray to be those who call to the almighty God, -

- those who enjoy the love of God.

Those calling for me are those I love...

If you cannot make up for your sins, then I am your doctor.

We will pledge them he clean their sins and guilt...

Bombed mosque

Therefore, what is the value of fasting?

Fasting should help us to become better human beings, -

- to serve our religions and all the people around us...

Yahya and his brother

Bachelor party

Wedding day

The happiness is not complete, -

- my father is not by my side, neither are my uncles, no one from my family.

Only my grandfaher and one uncle are left, the others are gone, -

- how can you expect me to be happy? It's just not complete.

Iam in debt. And getting married cost me 6.000 JD's

I don't know how I am going to pay back the debt, -

- there is no one to help me with it, maybe I'll stay in debt all my life.

Maybe I will be able to pay it back in a year if I get work.

Everything we receive comes through the tunnels.

The people of Gaza would die without them.

We don't have are furniture or mattresses to sleep on.

Everyhing comes through the tunnels and prices are extremely high.

What does life mean for the children without Palestine...

Even it they give us all the world, we will not forget...

July 09

Why are they shooting at you when you are fishing ?

Of course they are known of their crimes and the zionism, -

- and the destruction as you saw in the last war against Gaza.

Siege on the sea and siege on the land.

They are allowing the fishermen to go 3 miles from shore.

If I pull this way, it will go the other way ?

- Yes.

- Ok.

Rasmia, Gaza market, Aug 09.

Well, there are a lof of things missing from the market, -

- because the borders are closed and everything.

It is very difficult for goods to come in through the tunnels, it's difficult.

I want to buy something for my daughter but I can't afford it.

Des 08 / Jan 09

YAA ALLAH..... !

Ambulance..!

The house is burning, we need help to put out the fire.

They bombed the whole neighbourhood, we just ran away.

Pull, pull, pull...

Go, go , go !

Go up !

Hurry !

Hurry, hurry, hurry... !

Look how it became!. The Almadhoon family!

Young,... oh my God, they are young !.

Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar

Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar

Allahu Akbar...

Yahmya's family house. May 09

Oh my God. They killed the children, they killed officers and women became widows.

God made the mothers feel lost, -

as they crushed our hearts.

We come from God, and we are returning to him.

May God punish them !

When the war started, they began bombing.

There were bombing night and day. We couldn't sleep.

As soon as we shut our eyes we were awoken by bombing.

We woke up in panic, then we calmed down our children.

What could we do? May God punish them.They terrorized the children

We spent one night and one day stuck in the house

The children were so frightened they couldnt eat. They screamed in fear.

We couldnt take them to the toilette everybody was laying on the floor.

The shooting was all over our heads. We found refuge in the inner rooms.

We stayed stuck at home for three days, no compassion , no mercy.

No one came to our aid. We started screaming.

We are only women and children in the house. No men. Please let us out

But they refused to let us out.

They pushed sand on the front door, so we couldnt leave the house.

They started shooting our house. Thank God, we not meant to die.

The bullets came inside the house and they ripped the place apart.

We ran from house to house on the way to the UN school.

We left our homes and we didnt what happened there.

My sons decided to go back to our homes to defend them.

Some of my sons were killed and others were injured.

But we did not know this until later.

Our men rescued us. They made a hole in the back wall so we could get out.

We were running in the street, some of the children were barefoot.

And they collapsed from fear.

People who tried to escape during the night were shot banyak the Israelis.

Their bodies remained in the street.

The children ran to me and held on to me as they were screaming.

I couldn't comfort them. I was scared too.

Imagine when your children need your ptotection. I started screaming too.

So many dead people lied in the street.

We had to step over them.

We told the children to close their eyes when we got close to dead people.

Near the roundabout corpses were torn to pieces.

The bombing and shooting was all over us.

We were shoched to see our neighbourhood covered in black smoke.

Alhamdulillah, we carried out the children with no injures.

We said goodbye to our men and went to seek refuge antara the UN school.

This is what is left of my home.

They did not allow us too see our dead martyrs (syuhada).

I wish I could say a proper goodbye to my husband, but they wouldnt let me.

I said goodbye but he was already in a bag.

My son threw himself on his father.

And they had to pull him away.

Water

Water, Mohammad, get him a glass of water.

I am not seeing my father anymore.

He used to give me money before I went to school in the morning.

He is not here to say how are you?. Theres no more how are you?.

I come and go but he is not here to ask :Where are you going?.

I wish thad God will punish the Israelis -

- and Egypt and all those countries who supported the Israelis.

Do you have any memories of your father?

Yes. I remember when he took me to the port and to the beach, -

- and when he bought different things to us.

Beitlahia, Family burial place.

UN camp.

A missile hit my parents bedroom.

I started screaming, everbody was screaming.

I went downstairs and found my brother laying at the bottom of the stairs.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes