Dispatches - Children Of Gaza (2010)

On Monday 15th March Channel 4 aired an episode of Dispatches entitled "The Children of Gaza". It focused on the lives of a few of the children living in that small strip of Palestinian land whose lives were devastated when, 15 months ago, Israel launched its military attack on their homes, killing many of their parents and relatives, and shattering their already fragile existences. It showed how they have bravely tried to deal with their losses and bereavements and have tried to move on with their lives, and simultaneously how Israel has ensured that this is well near impossible as a result of the children’s literal incarceration in Gaza due to Israel’s illegal and ongoing siege. The documentary focused on how they have been struggling to deal with the fallout of their physical injuries as well as their psychological scars which, in all probability, they will never fully recover from. For once, this documentary was an opportunity for the children of Gaza themselves to speak out and to tell their own stories instead of it being told on their behalf by propagandists with a vested interest in how these children are portrayed.

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Producer: Channel 4

Dispatches - Children of Gaza | A MustWatch Documentary
Part 1 of 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ2fe1U-YnY
Part 2 of 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGMe2s_KJB0
Part 3 of 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNVGxJ14XfI
Part 4 of 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4L7R8JEU6k
Part 5 of 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaKekAIIOUE

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Comment by Irit Hakim-Keller on March 20, 2011 at 10:25pm: You are right, Guler. I didn't remember this while writing the comment, being so touched and excited, but I do now. apology. Still, there was not talking about this at school or ...

What I was trying to say is, that - it is important for the children to know they are not the only ones who lost a family member. I wish I could explain this with my poor English. I shall try though -

Many times, when working with children, one may realize that when a child knows that the other has suffered of the same like himself, it is easier for him to bear his own grief. With children - it makes no difference if the other child is a child of the enemy. It is a child in front of a child. it is a loss in front of a loss. the same lose, the same pain, the same grief.

Do my words make any sense to you?

re the Israelis and hi-tech, it is a fact that they do not know exactly where the kept soldier was/is (that was the reason for all this mess), and couldn't free him by that awful operation. nothing good has become out of it. only pain and pain and more pain.

Comment by Omar MHD on March 20, 2011 at 5:28pm: as well as Im Palestinain Refugee living in Gaza Strip I consider my self able to send many dispatches about our suffering and pain

Comment by Irit Hakim-Keller on March 19, 2011 at 2:29pm: I have watched the video with much pain, but also some hope.
Pain - obviously for the damage and loss and the pain and the injustice Israel had caused, but also for the deep meaning of all this and the influence on our own life, on our own soul. To be listening to children speaking up about their experience, about their feelings, about their emotions - was heartbreaking.
Hope - was raised in my heart when listening to the positive way of handling, like the teacher who helped the children to express their fear and their experiences through drawing, like the mother who urged her daughter to speak up reminding her that revenge is not the right way.

There was this boy who said he wants to revenge but also said he wouldn't do any harm to Israeli children who are not to balm, because - like himself they are only children....could he think of the time ahead when he is an adult, and so will be children of today????

And then there was the Jiahd's person , the uncle, who was speaking to the boy about becoming bomb suicide, which made my skin goose......I wish there are not many like him..

I've had this question in my mind - do the children of Gaza know about the rockets which were sent from Gaza to Israel and killed children and fathers and mothers??? the video does not touch this issue, and I find it wrong.

...just some of my thoughts//