And hair on rewind were revisiting some of the best of them today were rewinding more than 10 years to a series that looked at the data lives of children in conflict zones weve picked a particularly moving episode in which the filmmakers traveled to gaza where today 45 percent of the population children under 15 all of whom have firsthand experience of the machinery and consequences of violence. The children youre about sonys. By their days had a lives in gaza but as youll see they are somehow immensely inspiring from 2007 children of conflict. Gaza. One of the worlds biggest news stories. The one of the smallest and most claustrophobic strips of land on earth. A virtual prison with no way out and hardly any way in. The years of conflict with israel have left gaza in ruins. Playground east search to find tears. And blue state. And i will recruit other children here from mark to down. Today gaza feels like a population living on life support machine theres not enough of anything any money water food or medicine i know what this means i know what love means i know what what worries me is im scared i think were going to die death is coming. This tiny strip of land is bordered by israel egypt and the Mediterranean Sea entry to gaza is 3 checkpoints all of which are controlled by israel. Gaza makes up only 6 percent of the palestinian territory it contains nearly home off of its population around 1200000. 00. 50 percent of children under the age of 10. Roughly twice the size of washington d. C. Gaza is. Of the most densely populated places in the world. Fatima al natur was a grandmother to 23 grandchildren these are just some of them she had a tough life 2 of her children had been killed and others were in prison and her own house had been destroyed forcing her to live with relatives. When she died all she had was a room with a wardrobe a bed and a nail to hang things on she lived in dire poverty. Oh but she chose to dummy in desperate and in the. Last november at the age of 67 fatima became the oldest female Palestinian Suicide bomber. She approached a group of soldiers and detonated explosives strapped around her waist. And. 2 weeks before her death fatima went on a winning protest in the town of beit hanoun while she was there she witnessed the massacre of 13 children and the death of one of her friends her family say it was the to. Be an american to have she went but you knew when to break the most each she was the 1st woman to confront the Israeli Soldiers and right between the tanks we were surprised she came back to us alive after that. We thought she would get killed thank fashion as grandchildren say she came back from beit hanoun a changed person she was unusually quiet and she chose to spend time with each of the children individually was to call them so that someone. Is she would my address there was worth 30 chicagos and i hadnt been able to pay her back she said to me a little of the debt if i die today but i didnt take her seriously i mean she was normal she was helping us to bake the bread before she went out to die i suppose she may have been trying to tell me and directly that the her words were full of for those. The grandchildren insist they had no idea what she was planning to do. The bank has money were astonished at what happened well miss her dearly. The little ones cry for her and call her name at night they really loved her a lot and they keep visiting her they go to her room and knock on the door as if shes still there they sit on her bed and reminisce about they keep calling her name and asking her to come back i wish i could have said goodbye and then i would have got her last words of advice on how she was going to do this and who drove her to this ideology and i have dealings with the movement but they are saying very little to me and im trying to find out the address of other person to talk to i want to do the same i want to know how to do this are you serious that you were 14 years old she never says yes if you look at it from a view that life is just a passage then age is not an obstacle and if you have to as a matter of fact im trying to raise my little sister to think in this way this wouldnt worry me and i will recruit other children here for ma today isnt it. No its not life is a passage its not a sad thing that i was ready to become a martyr or not to die and were all going to die anyway. That the band yes clearly said of course that my grandmother will be a very good example for the children to follow she will give them the passion for martyrdom and raise them in the love of their land and when they grow up they will learn to defend palestine and they will revenge their grandmother. Do you ever think about the kids in israel do you ever wonder if for example the children instead of rot do you think that they might be suffering too. Yeah numa yeah but yes of course but just like our children live under constant fear their children should also experience the same fear and terror thats a normal reaction i refuse to accept that the other children of the world can live in peace and security while the children of palestine live under terror besh rubble. Children are growing up really thinking that this is is normal not being able to move around having difficulty getting to school. Violence for siblings brother friends being killed. And palestine in general it looks like a prison when you want a goal from here gadda dora muller for example you have to go through that checkpoint and. You have many questions. Although its our land theres no place to go because every good place. Israels israeli and destroy it. Here they know what to do what one means what theyre with that what this means and they know if they see blood very little if you think about the politics they hear they just live in a purely political situation all in the in schools they took a while for they when they play you can see them shooting other vital voices. I know i know what this means i know what love means i know what what war means for as little as a you know i know and all the children how is the feeling of of not having a mom. Or dad or brother the democratically elected government of the palestinian territories is how much the west regard hamas as a terrorist organization and have frozen aid to both go there on the west bank. The economy has collapsed and Civil Servants havent been paid for over a year. Its beyond peoples coping mechanisms that they cant cope anymore and thats certainly what were saying here in gaza people have sold anything that they might have to enable them to get by and theyre just not making ends meet anymore were saying poverty rates really get much worse people are living on less than 2. 00 a day 8 percent population and now at that rate of poverty which is comparable with some of the poorest places in the world. The sea a source of food is patrolled by the Israeli Military. Gazas fisherman can only fish safely in shallow polluted waters they say these days they are lucky to catch a handful of sardines. So mostly the boats dont bother to go out anymore. The land here is 1st tile and gaza used to have a thriving agriculture industry. But with the sealed borders these farmers console their crops. Many children have had to drop out of school to support their families in these fields i saw children as young as 5 spending backbreaking 10 hour days picking carrots. They earned just 30 shekels about 5. 00 a day. This is all shoka a village overlooked by guards or air force the whole area was destroyed by israeli tanks in august 2006 during a military incursion. Israel says it has to carry out these incursions to protect itself. The people here didnt do anything wrong. Houses and the families in them were simply in the way. This mother told me she used to have a 3 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms a washing machine and a t. V. Now all she has is a few dusty blankets under some plastic sheet. And boulders just opened. And they came to show they told us to get outside i was scared from the sound it explodes i lived all her toys were the bulldozers were they broke my toys they are under the house what they did tell us anything except one tree when they were over there. Living conditions like this a particularly hard on children theres no sanitation no clean water and a shelter from the cold thats not even a safe place to play. And if the children get sick there are no daughters but even if they were the parents couldnt pay anyway. This road runs through the middle of the gaza strip. During the years that Israeli Settlers lived here it was closed to the palestinians. The settlers left in 2005 and the homes were destroyed by these women. Many palestinian homes still bear the scars of the battles surrounding the settlement. Battles the bashir family. The tall 4 storey house is situated between a former settlement village and a palestinian village the Israeli Military tried to take over the house because it wanted to use it as a lookout position but the family refused to leave so the soldiers took the top 2 floors and the. Who have 6 children stayed on the ground to. The 1st time i saw the soldiers i was scared but i got used to them and then i wasnt so scared. I asked them if i could go to the toilet but the soldiers said no they would not allow me to go. They did not let me so i wet myself. They forced us not sides and i took my dad and myself and they blindfolded me and this was the most scary thing of all. And how do you feel now this is not the soldiers. Im so happy now they have a gun now i can go out whenever i like at night and day people can come and see us im happy even my Close Friends can come visit me and i can go to their houses i mean im happy happy happy and so so. Was. It. Was as internal tensions rising gaza children have also been caught in the crossfire between hamas and fatah the 2 leading palestinian political parties. In december 2 10063 children were killed when their colleagues and little girls in an apparent attack on their father a senior fatter intelligence official. Over 50 children have been killed in the past 3 months. And more than half of gazas children are thought to be suffering psychological damage as a result of trauma i love where i live have very little had them are all this destruction and mess we just wanted she moved we want it back as a team used to be before with all the trees we want peace and this for lunch because we always live in fear and you dont feel safe in these houses i swear we heard the sound of for kids and the noise of shooting and never seeing would love some peace in this war especially. What would she say to the politicians on both sides the goal of. My 1st tour is start to the arabs you talk about saving the children and you speak much about children but you dont truly mean what you say because children do not have any rights here. Olmert the Prime Minister of i say to him. Children who are and. I think its because he and the israelis are scared of children. This is because they think the children will grow up to be fighters its the opposite i want to tell him the children aspire to be educated go to the University Get ph d. s they warrant an education they just want an indication. Violence poverty politics. Daily reality for the children of god for. Ingalls of the population is estimated to be about 1400000 over hartford these people are children just think about what kind of impact passing along the top russian generation its its got to be addressed i really do you want to be a journalist because because. d because i like when i get to go ill describe the situation here still everybody how we live how was a. God willing i would love to be a professor of chemistry at university. That if i do not succeed in being a martyr. When you become the 1st female president of palestine which im actually sure youre going to be one of the 1st 3 things youre going to do now is. If im president and. I would 1st give children older so they dont have to live in discern years and misery to actually live in. Seconds i would you move all the sharpish i would not leave it the way it is now i were to see that there are municipalities that could clear the mess left behind by the israelis and. Build a new country. Total of conflict from 2007 now that was more than 10 years ago so what has become of the kids we met in that film in the decade since children of conflict conditions in gaza have to tear rated badly and there were major israeli incursions in 2009 and 14 we return recently to gaza to find out what has happened to those children who by now a well into their teens and their twentys. 5 well nigh at that he had a belly. And feet in the. In the thick. Head that. Had the luggage and take when and if they did that found. A way i knew. I could be in. The one on the shuttle no one is to head the deficit enough and the big. One im in. A bit. Like the. Ship that has the patty 200. Moshe love one day i knew in one house a lot of the. Few couldnt measure that and 100 into an argument in the end behaved had the best fish. And a. Sneeze then of a suit. That was the best man. But it had to. Have been. The latter leave. Them out. Who was. An. Oh. 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Have the whole. Of. The. Whole couldnt have been oh yeah. Well. Good though i had. Seen it. And im going to national center. That as if that is a hay year or hellion penrith. With. As of another. Subway 1st thing lowry square man alone where has this been a man for going to homo should see. Some of the total bill aside italian or some of. Them as that. Little bit because a matter of. Fairness that had really only animals that have come up that much so from a similar get any of the gear. Mal you hold the whole bill with fear to go out and sell it if he could to get a i had seen. Model and all aside i could have but for him as it had to be. A remarkable insight into a decade of growing up in gaza well thats it for us do join us again next time and do check out our rewind page of aljazeera dot com for more films from the series but for now thanks for joining us and see you again soon. Isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise leaving a looking at another side of this story the information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact its reality only has truly. Exposing the optics triathlon if the rhetoric and play but they cannot manipulate the listening post your inside guide to the media on aljazeera. These are who will drink and disjointed days especially for the young my life changed because i cant go will say we have to be careful to not get sick i dont sit University Study found the warming 5 children afraid to leave their homes the sense of disorientation and confusion which is being very understandable natural reaction loss to children in the past few weeks secure Mental Health units have been forced to discharge large numbers of patients there are children suffering from psychosis who believe the virus is a conspiracy of those with eating disorders or histories of self harm were going to have a time bomb. To Mental Health. The worlds attention is on controlling the virus for the rick helpless he didnt victims even when the pandemic passes there will be many in desperate need of help. Desperate for a better life millions of people have sought refuge in europe sometimes their dreams of sanctuary are realized but sometimes disenchantment and hostility drive them home. In the 2nd of 2 films on these contrasting experiences people and power meets the returning migrants now determined to discourage others from following the same path. To gambia back home from aljazeera. The u. S. Coronavirus death toll now exceeds the number of american lives lost during the vietnam war and. Canal this is al jazeera live from dell also coming up. Violence flares up again and lebanon on the where cause of 19 is pushing the already fragile economy closer to collapse. And this thing youre in my presence without taking
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