option has now been hit by a series of earthquakes more than two thousand people have been forced to leave their homes because of the threat from the lava flows and sell for gas aid agencies in kenya say they still haven't reached three quarters of the people in need of assistance after a major flooding at least one hundred twelve people have been killed and two hundred sixty thousand displaced over the past two months at least three gunmen and one civilian have been killed in fighting in the administered kashmir that happened in the capital city in the demonstrators tried to prevent security forces from avestan separatists fighters yemeni government sources told al-jazeera that the united arab emirates has agreed to withdraw its soldiers from a yemeni island in the arabian sea but it's not clear when that will happen saudi arabia sent a delegation to the court trial and after iraqi soldiers took over a key locations there this week now rival protests are expected in the german hometown of karl marx as it unveils

a statue to mark two hundred years since his birth to as a new statue is a gift from china where the ruling party claims that it's carrying on marxist communist legacy. nasa has launched an unmanned spacecraft bound for mars known as the robotic geologist it took off from california and is expected to reach its destination in six months it's hard to find it's going to help us understand more about the origins of our own planet earth. rewind the children of conflict is coming up next.

and welcome again to rewind i'm laura. since we launched al-jazeera english back in two thousand and six our library of award winning documentaries has been growing year by year and tear on rewind we're revisiting some of the best of them today we're rewinding more than ten years to a series that looked at the data lives of children in conflict zones we've picked a particularly moving episode in which the filmmakers traveled to gaza where today forty five percent of the population children under fifteen all of whom have firsthand experience of the machinery and consequences of violence the children you're about to meet had all been traumatized by their days had

a lives in gaza but as you'll see they are somehow immensely inspiring from two thousand and seven his children of conflicts. gaza. one of the world's biggest news stories. but 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 circular forest herself. and blew herself up. and i will recruit others children here for martyrdom. today gaza feels like

a population living on life support machine there's not enough of anything any money water food or medicine i know what this means i know what love means i know what their what warned me is i'm scared i think we're going to die death is coming. this tiny strip of land is bordered by israel egypt and the mediterranean sea entry to gaza is through checkpoints all of which are controlled by israel. gaza makes up only six percent of the palestinian territory it contains nearly hoff of its population around one point four million people fifty percent of children under the age of ten. roughly twice the size of washington d.c. gaza is one of the most densely populated places in the world.

fatima al natur was a grandmother to twenty three grandchildren these are just some of them she had a tough life two 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 die a poverty. oh uh oh uh oh but she chose to dummy in desperate and in the. last november at the age of sixty seven fatima became the oldest female palestinian suicide bomber. she approached a group of soldiers and detonated explosives strapped around her waist. and.

two 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 thirteen children and the death of one of her friends her family say it was the to. be an american to have she went to beit hanoun to break the most siege she was the first 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. fashion his 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 stuck with them so that said on. this she bought me a dress there was worth thirty chicago's and i hadn't been able to pay her back she

said to me a little of the debt if i died today but i didn't 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 while her words were full of for those. the grandchildren insist they had no idea what she was planning to do. the bank has money we're astonished at what happened we'll 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 she's 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 i'm 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 fourteen 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 that you have to as a matter of fact i'm trying to raise my little sister to think in this way this wouldn't worry me and i will recruit other children here for martyrdom isn't it. it's not life is a passage it's not a sad thing that i was ready to become a martyr or not going to die and we're 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 it's that or old do you think that they might be suffering too. yeah numa yeah the best use of course but just like our children live under constant fear their children should also experience the same fear and terror that's 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 of 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 problem friends being killed. gaza

and palestine engineer it looks like a prison when you want a goal from here gaza dora muller for example you have to go through that checkpoint and. many questions. although it's our land there's no place to go because every good place. israel's and israeli and destroy it. here they know what to do what one means what they're with that what this means and they know if they see blood they will everything to call it a day is they just live in a bullet political situation all end 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 they hear what war means for as little as they know i know and all the children how is the feeling of of not having a man. or a older 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 haven't been paid for over a year. it's beyond people's coping mechanisms they can't cope anymore and that's really what we're seeing here in gaza people have sold anything that they might have to enable and. by and they're just not making ends meet anymore we're saying poverty rates really get much worse people are living on less than two dollars a day 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. gaza's 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 don't bother to go out anymore. the land here is first 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 five spending backbreaking ten hour days picking carrots. they earned just thirty shekels about five dollars a day. this is al shoka

a village overlooked by gardner airport the whole area was destroyed by israeli tanks in all this two thousand and six during a military incursion. israel says it has to carry out these incursions to protect itself. the people here didn't do anything wrong is housing and the family than them were simply in the way. this mother told me she used to have a three bedroom house with two 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 left all the toys were the

bulldozers were they broke my toys. under the house but they didn't clear us anything except one tree then they were over there. living conditions like this a particularly hard on children there's no sanitation no clean water and shelter from the cold that's not even a safe place to play. and if the children get sick there are no doctors but even if they were the parents couldn't 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 two thousand and five and the homes were destroyed by these were. many palestinian homes still bear the scars of the battles surrounding the settlements. battles the

bashir family. that all four story house is situated between a form a 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 two floors and the. who have six children stayed on the ground to. the first time i saw the soldiers i was scared but i got used to them and then i wasn't 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 down 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 it's not the soldiers. i'm so happy now they have a gun now i can go out and whenever i like at night and day people can come and see us i'm happy even my close friends can come visit me and i can go to their houses i mean i have to be happy happy and so. was. i as internal tensions rising gaza children have also been caught in the crossfire between hamas and fatah the two leading palestinian political parties. in december two thousand and six three children were killed when their colleagues and little girls in an apparent attack on their father

a senior fatter intelligence official. over fifty children have been killed in the past three months. and more than half of gaza's children are thought to be suffering psychological damage as a result of trauma and i love have them over the them are all this destruction and mess we just wanted she moved we want it back as a team used to be before risk all the trees we want peace and this for large because we always live in fear and you don't feel safe in these houses i swear we heard the sound of for kits and the noise of shooting and everything would love some peace in this war especially in gaza. what would she say to the politicians on both sides of the golan. and my first word is start to the arabs you talk about saving the children and you speak much about children but you don't

truly mean what you say because children do not have any rights here. much the prime minister of i say to him why do you kill children who are endless and. i think it's because he and the israelis are scared of children. this is because they think the children will grow up to be fighters it's the opposite i want to tell him the children aspire to be educated go to the university get ph d.'s they want and education they just want an indication. violence poverty politics. daily reality for the children

of gaza. in gaza the population is estimated to be about one point four million over hafiz people children just think about what kind of impact by passing along the top russian generation it's it's going to be addressed i really be a journalist because because. because i like it when i get bigger i'll describe the situation here i'll still everybody how we live how. 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 first female president of palestine which i'm absolutely sure you're going to be one of the first three things you're going to do and how if. if i'm president. i would first

give children all there are so they don't have to live in discern years and misery that we live in. second i would you move all the sharpish i would not leave it the way it is now i would see that there are municipalities that could clear the mess left behind by the israeli and third. new country. children of conflict from two thousand and seven now that was more than ten 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 tara to badly and there were major israeli incursions in two thousand and nine and fourteen we were told recently to gaza to find out what has happened to those children who by now a well into the teens on the twenty.

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bill with fear to go out and sell it if i am good to get a i had seen. model and all aside i could have but from as it had to be. a remarkable insight into a decade of growing up in gaza well that's it from us do join us again next time and do check out all rewind page of al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series but for now thanks for joining us and see you again. rewind returns with a new series can bring your people back to life i'm sorry. i was able to. rewind continues with me

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