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the world will americans be required to take part in the count during a national emergency and will donald trump's and immigration rhetoric deter some from participating follow the u.s. census on al-jazeera. santa maria and welcome to rewind behind me the city of. we've been coming here to the museum of islamic not to revisit some of the best documentaries we've made. large extent our life chances are determined by where we have for the days we won 1st ed back in 2013 years after israel began its hillis blockade of the gaza strip

the palestinians living in the tight confines of an enclave starved of adequate medical resources a simple thing like the birth of a new child can become a matter of life and death when i can't get access to the treatment by baby or mother needs i was there is k.c. kaufman told the story of one such family in his very personal film born in gaza. this is a society at the mercy of a political. family and. this is the story of one young family in a situation that is beyond their control. the

expectation of a new baby when it's a feeling of excitement and apprehension that all parents experience but for assad. the pregnancy of this 2nd child means much more. i 1st met amal in a site i must loom one year ago at a children's hospital in gaza city. you will get a lot of them. in the story of their 1st child is one that i will never forget. you know. this is their 1st child. when he was 19 months old he was born with 2 holes in

his heart in his parents' lives were dedicated to his care. of the thought. that. whole. sort of show. these conditions could have been fixed by routine surgery but israel's siege on the

gaza strip has crippled the medical system here. these doctors don't have the training or equipment to perform the necessary operation. put that on. them with them. but gaza is blocked off from the outside world and he does never made it back to israel for his heart operation. his parents say their request to cross the border was turned down 6 times because his case was never considered an emergency. but then foetuses condition started to quickly deteriorate. his doctors here couldn't help him anymore the only solution was to send him to an advanced hospital

in israel and now it was urgent i mean if you can take him to this little bit up. in his really hospital except to the doctors request in a sub started to receive time to get his son out of gaza. i'll get the you're going to fix and good will get it. i. don't mind that the rest of. the fleet. shuffle sort of stuff until we're sort of in the took us to the

source it seemed to me that. you should know that that's the way the. i love my job and look we want to show sort of us the old you. know. that's more on the notion that it was on the wall above the age of the salons of the home. i'm all about than a thought so i was in the bottom and then i did beverly get the get about the amount about the height. i detach. the clock down to go on. the 3rd jacket shuttle i mean they've got the war going to . the full of us.

i mean in my head. i think it's a love. letter. but this you know i've got it down but the other one is all the i mean all of dialogical so long as that's what dollars that's about all of. you. will. i'm one of those of the 500 michelle more so that. the head of the house. almost started to prepare for the trip to israel she was ready to travel alone with her son only one person is allowed to accompany a child patient. it's another rule of the system. has 7 hopefully and i mean i

don't how much can one lot of her she was has the big one are some of the collapse as young will damage and how many on resemble we have common have a son. made it out on the search for bin much yes. and i can i'm the son i think i don't know woman was this fine for most thoughtful if i go without will side and somewhat of the darkness and i. will. just. as i'm always going back to the hospital to meet her son for the trip to the border. she received an urgent call and was told there was a complication. free no. 0. 00 that

was. set up a. little. politics in the. most possible place and i was really sure oh yes well you. got. to. sit next. to. me i just you. know you guys. come up i want to talk i'm not much out. there i'm.

victor rive to the hospital in israel would have only taken an hour. but after nearly 3 hours of obstacles in their lives the journey never began. the tragedy of his parents having been captured on camera was soon on the evening news. oily back. in medina to was. that up to 50 of us what looked at how some kind of

a kid was at the. have. a. look at the metal if you can. and i worry that the moment mechanically been here for almost. a . look at the metadata. you can imagine that they. had one bob i'm in we have to follow us but the man. in the. i just don't. know but man. i was. in the house. when.

i think that if. you say that they live at the end of the planet. earth but. when you win this sunday is it done and. done and. the boys are in the winter to follow something up and. when the sun will be on one of them with. the last man can sit on the bus with him live. a lie and sorrow and the love that i was sharing it letting in in them all over what i love there is

a place and get. over that hurdle for the one that i don't have a little. while. as imo enters her final stage of pregnancy i decide to go to israel. i want to meet the doctor who would have operated on the year before. this border keeps the palestinians inside gaza. and it's what stood between feet and his chance at life. only a few 100 meters separate gaza in israel but they are worlds apart the haves and the have nots.

in israel there is a vibrancy and sense of potential that you can only find in a society that determines its own future. and. it only takes me an hour to drive from gaza to the wolfson medical center on the outskirts of tel aviv. this is where it was supposed to have his surgery one year ago. and this is the cardiologist who was waiting for him. doctor to mere operates on children from all over the world in today i found 4 young patients from gaza i will help children get through this is the we have about the system still have to operate it's a difference mechanism in order to prevent. bad things to happen. so that's

why i accepted and i'm not so much against it. instead of following ballgames we save lives so it's different ways of inflicting some power if you. if you save lives. in the same in the same manner but maybe it's something that gives. you you take your strings from whatever you can do. i don't play with politics i have my own political view but this is. really into this type of work to do with the physician. to treat people the people who are sick. but not everybody in israel's medical field stays out of politics run your room in his colleagues help palestinian patients get access to the treatment they need since israel

controls the only gate to full palestinians who 6 ok on available it has a responsibility to lead them out position flame rise recorded 14 cases of death related to deny access and all these cases are recorded after all the application was submitted to do is read your thought is that the israeli army main concern is security in colonel moshe levy comes up with a different fact to defend the policy of closure towards the gaza strip. for from 5. quest that we received. every day we approved so i think that the this is 80 percent from the requirements from the palestinian side we provided you can see in the numbers of people who are deniers

nearly 25 percent of the patient to exit for apply for exit permit deny due to rejection or delays our challenge is how to create a balance between the security needs and between the civilian needs this is the main issue this is the main challenge over there is where the policy in this. granting the health right in venture only in the long term make my society a better place to live in and for that i thing i do my best to help posting and not only because. it is because there are human beings and they must enjoy it but also because it is an israeli i feel responsibility for them. it's. a question. it's 5 in the morning in gaza city in the our muslim family is that the public hospital imo has just gone into labor. in she's heading

with her mother in law to the maternity ward for women only. assad has been waiting for 8 and a half hours. enough time for the memory of his 1st child's illness to creep back into his mind. but this time there are no complications. to. the chip edition yes some of them down the elite yes it was made to bring them to eat eat food.

happiness has returned to this household. the new baby boy is in perfect health. and as a way to honor their 1st son amal in a sudden decide to also name their 2nd son feed. us yes. the past 3 years of family life were filled with anxiety and sadness but now with a sense of relief she looks forward to a happy future. but diego what absurd are up with those who forgot who might argue with them in their lives that have been muscle isn't he actually is to have a low mom to be a mistake to we should look at him there mainly in

a mum look at absolutely is how far you can still be an arc that are laying around or module when the have that are not off notice the world will be in the autumn when i'm going to. have the law is a fit of that than yanni. life goes on in gaza. but there are thousands of people who have been denied medical treatment and left without adequate care.

the blockade of the gaza strip is still firmly in place. in the until the political situation changes. these patients will be waiting in struggling. for one of the most basic rights. you would hope the situation would have improved for those facing serious medical issues in gaza that is a question for robin told but at medical aid foot palestinians an organization working to ensure equitable access to health care in gaza roman thank you for joining us as we look to update this film and find out what's happened since then are you aware of any efforts 5 years readies to make it a bit easier have there been any developments now the situation actually worse than

it was that so i think we can cite that it's clearly been a slide right down to the point that i think 7 years ago we might have been talking about roughly 20 percent of its being either tonight or to late now i mean last year the average right was that a 3rd of it tonight or tonight actually reaching the point in december where the majority. so i think it was about 60 percent of the denied or delayed and every denial is obviously a denial of access to cabot also delays i mean people usually find out whether they've been successful or not the evening before they due to travel so if you don't hear or you don't get a response that effectively means you miss your appointment and you can't get a cab ok so what do you take me through the process then of getting through those checkpoints who needs to be accompanying a child how it all works there's a process of applying for the permit which requires a lot of documentation it all has to be submitted at least 10 days before you were due to travel you might either as the patient even as children or as the

company are going with the child because to a security interview which might determine whether they're going to get a permit to get out and then it's a waiting game and in the majority of cases when a child is going to treatment they'll need someone to go with them to take care of them and provide support inside hospital. but largely the restrictions that are placed mean that anybody who is between $855.00 is unlikely to be able to get a permit that means that children's usually that parent within that age range in fact only about 6 percent of gaza's population over the age of 55 this is because grandparents but they're finding it increasingly difficult to get to get these permits to accompany children i've actually got one of your in for graphics here to show our viewers online here we're talking about exiting gaza who can get a permit and that graph right at the bottom showing that decline in approval rates i mean it's one thing that it has declined why has it declined quite so much in

that last year i mean down from 80 percent to 50 by the looks of this graph we're talking about a situation of 50 years of occupation and 10 years of this book 8 inclosure and over that period of time we've seen that it's more and more difficult for patients to be able to get to care israel is still the occupying power in gaza and it has a legal responsibility an obligation under the 4th geneva convention to ensure that the population that that it occupies have adequate access to medical care but ultimately it's important we grapple with the big issues medical care and access to medical care and those restriction to movement part and parcel of a wider problem and that wider problem is a decade of blockade and i mean we can see the impact on that job not just in terms of the immediate ability of people to get out to kat but also their ability to access care inside gaza i mean roughly at any given time 25 percent of medicines are at 0 stock inside gaza these are essential medicines chemotherapy medicines you know basic pain medications because the economy situation inside gaza now is so

serious this perpetual crisis that the ministry of health contact them on the shelves run tolbert from medical aid for palestinians we thank you very much for joining us and rewind. the face of the bobbins i'm dismissing us from. our lives really. how to carry it on as we know that one. may want to sue now some of them isn't like that so much that.

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