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| UK TV Watch: Death In Gaza |
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| Saffiyah |
| 05/24/04 at 20:40:20 |
| Death in Gaza A film that documents the lives of three Palestinian children caught in the cycle of violence between the Israeli army and Palestinian fighters. In a land where martyrdom can be an aspiration, this is an attempt to capture the horror which has become part of the children's everyday existence. Chillingly, it ends with the death of director James Miller, shot while approaching an Israeli army APC after identifying himself as a journalist. Time: 22:40 to 00:00 (1 hour and 20 minutes long). When: Tuesday 25th May on Channel 4 Islamic Affairs Central Network (IACN) Nottingham, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 115 844 9705 E-mail: info@iacn.org.uk Website: www.iacn.org.uk For more information regarding James Miller see the website dedicated to him: http://www.justice4jamesmiller.com/home.htm |
| 05/24/04 at 20:46:06 |
| Saffiyah |
| Re: UK TV Watch: Death In Gaza |
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| Shahida |
| 05/26/04 at 06:52:44 |
| [slm] So did anyone watch this? how was it? Wasalam Shahida |
| Re: UK TV Watch: Death In Gaza |
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| Nadeem |
| 05/26/04 at 10:44:21 |
| [slm] I saw this programme last night. It was quite tough viewing. The programme followed the lives of three children. This one boy, the one who they stayed with most of the time, he was so young, yet he talked like a grown man, and his eyes were sunk in like he was so tired. The kids looked like they had seen too much in their short lives. Very sad. They showed children dying every day almost. And death had become so much part of their lives that their society welcomed death, to become a martyr at the hands of an Israeli was a very honourable thing. I cringed a bit when the Palestinian resistance fighters were proudly showing the little boy how to hold a rocket launcher, but I guess war is so much part of the society that everyone is involved. The saddest part was when the little boy (he only looked about 9 years old) was tending to his friends grave and the interviewer asked him "what do you think its like to get shot?" "what do you think you'd feel if you got shot?" and the little boy up to that point had been proudly telling how he would fight the Israeli tanks, went all quiet, and then asked in a quiet little voice "Why would they want to shoot me? I'm just little". Heart wrenching stuff. [wlm] |
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