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colorado's stay at home order has expired. in other news the sound led coalition in yemen is calling for an end to violence after separatists in a city of aden proclaimed self rule the 7 transitional council declared a state of emergency saying it would govern the port city and other southern provinces the a many government is calling it a coup with the s.t.c. supported by the united arab emirates saudi arabia is calling for all sides to abide by a power sharing agreement signed 5 months ago and in brazil the president is facing a new crisis after reports that police have identified his son as the organizer of a scheme to spread fake use carlos for a scenario has dismissed claims as garbage the investigation is part of an ongoing probe into false stories targeting judges you're upset with headlines on al-jazeera coming up next year it's rewind children of conflict they were this.
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every generation. ours. and welcome again to rewind to honor. since we last al jazeera english back in 2006 on library of award winning documentaries has been growing year by year and here on rewind we're revisiting some of the best of them today we're rewinding more than 10 years to a series that looked at the data lives of children in conflict zones. we've picked
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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 you're about sony's. by their days had a lives in gaza but as you'll see they are somehow immensely inspiring from 2007 children of conflict. gaza. one of the world's 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.
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playground east searcher fires tears. and blue state. and our crew the other children here from mark to down. 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 what worries 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 3 checkpoints all of which are controlled by israel. gaza makes up only 6 percent of the palestinian territory
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it contains nearly hoff 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
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desperate and in. comes. 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 it 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
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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 stood on. a steamboat my address there was worth 30 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 the her words were full of for those. the grandchildren insist they had no idea what she was planning to do. when his nanny we're astonished at what happened we all 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
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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 who drove her to this ideology how i have dealings with the movement but they are saying very little to me and i'm trying to find out the address you 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 7 years years 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 right. down here no it's not life is
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a passage it's not a sad thing that i've. already 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 instead of rot do you think that they might be suffering too. yeah numa yeah the best idea is 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 rubble
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whole. 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. and their 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. you have many questions. c although it's our land there's no place to go because every good place. israel's israeli and destroy it. here they know what to do what one means what they're worried that what this means and they know if they see
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blood they know everything about the politics they hear they just live in a purely political situation all in the in schools they talk i'm all for they when they play you can see them shooting others. i know i know what this means i know what love means i know what they hear what war means for as little as a you know i know and all the children how is the feeling. 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 i 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 that they can't cope anymore and
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that's certainly what we're saying here in gaza people have sold anything that they might have to enable them to get 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 $2.00 a day 80 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 and income 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 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
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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 all this 2006 during a military incursion. israel says it has to carry out these incursions to protect itself. the people here didn't 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
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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 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 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 daughters but even if they were the parents couldn't pay anyway.
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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 with the shia family. that 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
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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 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 soldier's. i'm 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 i'm happy even my close friends can come visit me and i can go to their houses i mean i'm happy happy happy and so so. was. i as internal
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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 gaza's children are thought to be suffering psychological damage as a result of trauma i love where i live have them over the them are all this destruction and mess we just wanted she moved we want it back as a 2 used to be before was 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
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this war especially. what would she say to the politicians on both sides. are less than. my 1st toward a 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. olmert the prime minister of i say to him. 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
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indication. violence poverty politics. daily reality for the children of gaza. 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 it's it's got to be addressed i really do you want to be a journalist because because. because i like it when i get to go i'll describe the situation here still everybody how we live how with. god willing i would love to be a professor of chemistry at university. that if i do not succeed in being
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a martyr. when you become the 1st female president of palestine which i'm absolutely sure you're going to be one of the 1st 3 things you're going to do and how if. if i'm president and. i would 1st give children all there are so they don't have to live in discern yours 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 would 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
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gaza have to tear rated badly and there were major israeli incursions in 2009 and 14 we returned recently to gaza to find out what has happened to those children who by now a well into their teens on the 20. 5 at that he had a belly. and feet in the. midst of thick. headed luggage and hike when and if they did that. than a on. one
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the whole. of. the. whole clinton that i've been oh yeah. well. good though i had. seen it. and i'm going to national center is that i said that as a hey year or hellion carries. in with. as of another. subway 1st thing lowry square man alone where has this been a man for going to homo should see. some
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of the total bill aside italian or some of the. men as that. little bit because a matter of. fairness that had really only animals that are from up a. little more submissive i 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 that's it for us do join us again next time and do check out our rewind page of al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series but for now thanks for joining us and see you again.
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