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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 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 traumatized 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. 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.
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the years of conflict with israel have left gaza in ruins. a growing east search to find terror cells. and blue states. and i will recruit 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 heart 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. 6 0 but she chose to dummy in
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desperate and in. terms of. 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 again in 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 him to break the most each she was the 1st 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
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thank fashion as 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 to call them so that someone. is she would 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 die 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. we were astonished at what happened we all miss her dearly. the little ones cry for
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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 who drove her to this ideology how i have dealings with the movement why 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 14 years old service 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.
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it's not life is a passage it's not a sad thing that i've. already become a master 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 are out 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
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in peace and security while the children of palestine live under terror besh 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 brother friends being killed. and their palestinian 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 israeli and destroy it. here they know what to do
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what one means what their word that what this means and they know they see blood very little everything to politics they hear they just live in a purely political situation all in schools they took a while for they when they play you can see them shooting other buy toys. i'm an amateur i know i know what this means i know what love means i know what 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
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a year. it's beyond people's coping mechanisms that they can't cope anymore and that's really 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 8 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 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 gardner airport the whole area was destroyed by israeli tanks in august 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 is how the family than 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.
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. now all she has is a few dusty blankets under some plastic sheet. emboldens 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. over there. living conditions like this a particularly hard on children there's no sanitation no clean water and a 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.
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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 on the homes were destroyed by these women. many palestinian homes still bear the scars of the battles surrounding the settlements. battles with the shia family. the tall 4 storey 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 2 floors and the. who have 6 children stayed on the ground to.
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the 1st 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 over now the soldiers. 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. was 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 fattah intelligence official. over 50 children have been killed in the past 3 months. or 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 very little had them are all this destruction and mess we just wanted she moved we want it back as a 2 used to be before with all the trees we want peace and this for lunch because we always live in fear and you don't feel safe in these houses i swear we
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heard the sound of for a kits and the noise of shooting and everything would love some peace in 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
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university get ph d.'s they warrant an education they just want an indication. violence poverty politics. daily reality for the children of god for. ingalls of the population is estimated to be about 1400000 over hafiz people 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 when i get to go i'll describe the situation here still everybody how we live how with.
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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 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 now is. 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 3rd i'll build a new country. total of conflict from 2007 now that was more than 10 years ago so what has become of the
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kids we met in that film in the decade since children of conflict conditions in gaza have to tear rated badly and there were major israeli incursions in 2009 and 14 we were turned recently to gaza to find out what has happened to those children who by now a well into their teens and their twenty's. at the fed a bell we. just didn't stand up. and fill in the. news that the. sun. had the luggage in the high corner and if they did that.
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i don't know how that was the best. but it had. been. the last of the. lets out of finance as a mom. who was. an. oh. and a murderer gets will get an accolade on the hill a kid that i have to have a kid that has their fit then when i get halle. and i used to be and i've been this. is that i had mckinney at the counter for the credit on. the breast but that got you an avid look at different. times this mean honestly for the inconvenience and i would like it only on the record and
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maybe the added. to me feel home is that there are no women in fact that i can pat you and i had with i had. to have had magic and i had them and them and them but but it had at least lead me to service in the service of looking a lot more about. to have. thoughts i thought to distill their leaders to. the letter so i couldn't be on them and who i feel this is what i would say you mean mccann but yes. then the mortal also so did learn color and this is true and i will have a list of all the his but that is. how with a lot of. that is. that
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a subtle most of the so. that i didn't. have the whole. of. the. whole couldn't have been oh yeah. well. good though and i had. seen it. around with the national center and that i said that as a hayyeh or hellion carries. it with. less of a mother of. 7 1st thing lowry square man alone where has this been a man film going to homo should see. some
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of the total bill aside italian or some of. them as that. little bit because a matter of. fairness that had really only animals that are from up a. little much so from a similar get. to the big deal. man 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 from 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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