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2010 ICCL Human Rights Film Awards Shortlistee. Entrant: Dearbhla Glynn (Director)

This short documentary by Dearbhla Glynn brings us to the Gaza Strip following Operation Cast Lead in late 2008/ early 2009. It offers a personal insight into the day-to-day living conditions faced by the Gaza Strip's 1.5 million conflict-stricken inhabitants.
  • nicola mccarthy 1 year ago
    A heartbreaking story, a film that inspires
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  • “I don’t think anyone can fully appreciate what’s happening there unless they have witnessed it themselves,” says Dearbhla Glynn. “Police stations, cement factories, graveyards and hospitals were all completely destroyed in the 2008/09 War. This was a very deliberate attempt to crush the infrastructure of the place.”
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  • Gazans must not be forgotten. Lifting the number of restricted goods is still not freedom. And separating Gaza from the West Bank only serves those who don't want peace or a normal life. Free Gaza! Free Palestine! Someone out there remember what "normal" means?
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  • Andrew Jinks 1 year ago
    Thank you Dearbhla for this film. Damn good job. am sharing via facebook.
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  • Tim Johnston 1 year ago
    *yawn*, it looks just like any other Islamic country.

    What happened to balanced and unbiased journalism? I found the lack of insight and downright naivete disturbing, actually. And the claim that food and supplies have to be brought in through tunnels is, simply, a propagandist lie.

    Not a word, though, about the Gazan's election of a fascist political party or their continued rocket attacks on their neighbouring country.
  • Kanan48 1 year ago
    Here is some history about Gaza, to show for how long this occupation state is deliberately committing its war crimes.

    From an article with the title:"The Ordeals of Gaza"

    "Israeli military spokesmen, justifying their army's assault on the Gaza Strip, said the war was about Sderot. In a way, they were right. It is about Sderot. In 1948, where Sderot houses Israeli Jews today, there was a village called Najd - Arabic for a high plateau.
    It was home to about seven hundred people, most of them small farmers. Two days before the declaration of the State of Israel - that is, on May 13th - Haganah forces expelled the inhabitants.
    Eventually, these people - as the Egyptian Army that invaded Palestine a few days later gradually lost ground to the new Israeli Army - found refuge in the Gaza Strip....
    The Middle East Department of Israel's new foreign ministry made clear what fate was intended for them. Again, I quote from Tom Segev's 1949:
    The department staff estimated that the refugees would "manage." As they put it, "the most adaptable and best survivors would manage by a process of natural selection, and the others will waste away. Some will die but most will turn into human debris and social outcasts and probably join the poorest classes in the Arab countries." Ben-Gurion informed the Minister for Immigration, Moshe Shapira, that the "Government line is that they may not return. That was in April 1949. (page 30)" Link: charlesglass.net/archives/2009/01/the_ordeals_of.html

    And as Moshe Dayan stated in an oration at the funeral of an Israeli farmer killed by a Palestinian Arab in April 1956:
    ". . . Let us not today fling accusation at the murderers. What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived. We should demand his blood not from the [Palestinian] Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. . . . Let us make our reckoning today. We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house. . . . Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of [Palestinian] Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood." (Iron Wall, p. 101)".
    There was no Hamas in 1956!!

    And regarding Hamas later, just go and find out about the role of the Mosad and Golda!

    “Thanks to the Mossad, Israel’s “Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks”, the Hamas was allowed to reinforce its presence in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, Arafat’s Fatah Movement for National Liberation as well as the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression and intimidation
    Let us not forget that it was Israel, which in fact created Hamas. According to Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)”.
    Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamist movement in Palestine, returning from Cairo in the seventies, established an Islamic charity association. Prime Minister Golda Meir, saw this as a an opportunity to counterbalance the rise of Arafat’s Fatah movement. .According to the Israeli weekly Koteret Rashit (October 1987), “The Islamic associations as well as the university had been supported and encouraged by the Israeli military authority” in charge of the (civilian) administration of the West Bank and Gaza. “They [the Islamic associations and the university] were authorized to receive money payments from abroad.”…” For full article and details here is the link:

    globalresearch.ca/articles/ZER403A.html

    The occupation is the crime and everything ales is a propaganda, don't try to turn the issue around and demonize the victims, the Nazis did this before.

    wanted.org.il/
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  • Danny tavori 1 year ago
    "The occupation is the crime and everything ales is a propaganda, don't try to turn the issue around and demonize the victims, the Nazis did this before"

    I'm sorry, but you are only looking trough one lens. I'm not justifying the occupation or demonizing the palestinians. I think that the occupaition must be stopped, I and most Israelis thinks that, but it's problematic. do you know how many missiles a day were lunched from Gaza to Israel just few days before the operation? more than 1000 a day! can you imagine it? like Dearbhla Glynn wrote "I don’t think anyone can fully appreciate what’s happening there unless they have witnessed it themselves". I've been there, belive me, I know.
    It was hard for me to see what is going on inside Gaza, and I know that the occupation does not help.
    but if we (Israel) will stop it immediately, it's going to be worse than the years 2001-2003. My mother didn't let me go to the mall because she was afraid. there were terror activities every day(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Intifada), one of my relatives died when a terrorist exploded himself inside a semi-full school bus.

    Dont look for reasons in at history of israel, this is what settlers do, the only way is to find a solution for the present and the future, looking for solutions for the past and justice is what settlers do. I hope that in a year there will be peace with us and the west bank, it's possible only because they want peace too. with Gaza it will take time, but now, there's no other choise but keeping the occupation, until they decide they want to talk about peace.
  • Kanan48 1 year ago
    No Justice no Peace. It is about the Zionist project and their "Jewish state". The quotes from the Zionists themselves explain the issue clearly, And are you comparing between the past, the 3000 years legend and fabricated history which the settlers believe in and the recent history I mentioned about Al Nakba?
    Occupier can't offer peace, and the "two lens" talk doesn't work between unequal sides, the criminal and victim!
    Who are the refugees in Gaza? How they ended up there?
    Israeli Myths & Propaganda: vimeo.com/6977939

    But as it happened with the other apartheid in south Africa, when people started to talk about its racist core and began the boycott movement then their governments had to act after a long support that apartheid had and from the same states who support your apartheid, and your state helped and supported as well, Perez tried to sell nukes to the other apartheid. By the way both apartheid started in 1948, and there were many mothers, settlers, in apartheid south Africa like your Mother, who "didn't let you go to the mall because she was afraid". You have a mall built on the Arab natives' land while they are refugees behind fences!!

    Moshe Dayan (as quoted in Ha’aretz, 4 April 1969): “Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist, not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushu’a in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.”

    Ze'ev Jabotinsky: "If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison for the land, or find a benefactor who will maintain the garrison on your behalf. ... Zionism is a colonizing adventure and, therefore, it stands or falls on the question of armed forces." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 45)

    Learn about the history of your state before talking about peace and future, rosy talk doesn't wash away the ethnic cleansing. Acknowledgment is the first step.
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