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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.08,0:00:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dear hermanos,\Nour motto "Stay Human" is now also a book.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.06,0:00:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please find within\Nthe three-week story of a massacre
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.04,0:00:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,written to the best of my ability
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.01,0:00:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more often than not very precarious conditions
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.00,0:00:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often scribbling about the inferno\Nall around me in a tattered notebook...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.00,0:00:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...while crouched\Nin an ambulance screaming down the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.09,0:00:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or frantically tapping away at the keyboard\Nof any available computer I could find...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.03,0:00:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often inside a building shaking like\Na crazed pendulum as explosions went off all around.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.06,0:00:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I must warn you that leafing through this book\Ncould prove dangerous.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.03,0:00:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are harmful pages, blood-stained
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.01,0:01:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imbued with white phosphorous,\Nand as sharp as bomb shrapnel.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.02,0:01:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If read within the quiet of a bedroom,\Nyour walls will shake from our cries of terror.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.00,0:01:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel concerned for the walls of your hearts,\Nwhich I recognize have not yet become soundproofed to pain.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.08,0:01:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please store this volume somewhere safe,\Nwithin the reach of the young
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.06,0:01:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they may immediately learn\Nof a world not so far away from them
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.10,0:01:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where indifference and racism\Ntears their peers to little bits as if they were mere rag dolls.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.08,0:01:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This way they may be inoculated against racism from an early age,\Nagainst any epidemic of violence towards whoever is different
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.06,0:01:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or against neutrality when faced with injustice.\NFor tomorrow, so as to stay human.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.01,0:01:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I trust you who trust me
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.00,0:01:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not for the ones who died but for the ones\Nwounded to death in this horrendous massacre.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.09,0:02:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One hug as big as the mediterranean sea\Nwhich joins us by dividing us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.06,0:02:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay Human
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.03,0:02:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never giving up, yours Vik.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.02,0:02:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,27th december 2008
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.09,0:02:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Guernica in Gaza
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.00,0:02:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My apartment in Gaza faces the sea,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.01,0:02:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a panoramic view that's always done wonders for my mood,\Noften challenged by all the misery that a life under siege can bring.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.03,0:02:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is, before this morning,\Nwhen all hell broke loose outside my windows.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.06,0:02:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We woke up to the sound of bombs dropping,\Nmany of them falling a few hundred meters from my home.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.04,0:02:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of my friends have fallen under them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.00,0:03:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So far the death toll has reached 210, but it's bound\Nto rise dramatically. It's an unprecedented bloodshed.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.00,0:03:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've razed the port to the ground,\Nand pulverized police station.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.09,0:03:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been told that the Western media\Nare on-message and are repeating...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.10,0:03:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...the press releases issued\Nby the Israeli military parrot-style
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.00,0:03:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,according to wich the attack only targeted\NHamas' terrorist dens with surgical precision.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.02,0:03:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In actual fact, when visiting Al-Shifa, the city's main hospital,\Nand gazing over chaotic lines of bodies laid out in its courtyard
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.00,0:03:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we mostly saw civilians among those awaiting treatment,\Nlying randomly alongside other bodies, awaiting rightful burial.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.00,0:03:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you picture Gaza? Every house leans against another,\Nevery building rises over the next one.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.01,0:03:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gaza is the place\Nwith the highest population density in the world...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.05,0:03:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...which means that when you bomb from a height\Nof 10,000 metres, you'll inevitably butcher many civilians.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.07,0:04:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're aware of it, you're guilty as charged, it's no error,\Nand certainly no case of collateral damage either.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.01,0:04:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When shelling the central police station in Al-Abbas,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.00,0:04:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the neighbouring elementary school\Nwas also damaged by the explosion.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.04,0:04:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the end of the school day\Nand the children were already in the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.02,0:04:22.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of their flapping sky-blue aprons\Nwere splashed with blood..
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.05,0:04:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When bombing\Nthe Dair Al-Balah police academy,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.08,0:04:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some dead and wounded were also recorded\Nfrom the souk nearby, this being Gaza's central market.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.01,0:04:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've seen the bodies of animals and humans mixing\Ntheir blood in rivulets trickling down the asphalt roads.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.01,0:04:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Guernica transfigured into reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.00,0:04:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw many corpses in uniforms\Nin the various hospitals I visited, I knew many of those boys.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.04,0:05:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I greeted them every day when I met them in the street on my way\Nto the port, or walked to the central cafÈ of an evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.05,0:05:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew several of them by name.\NA name, a history, a mutilated family.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.09,0:05:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The majority were young,\Naround 18 or 20...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.00,0:05:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...mostly without political leanings,\Nneither siding with Fatah nor Hamas
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.08,0:05:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply enrolled into the police force\Nonce they had finished university...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.01,0:05:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...in order to have a secure job in Gaza
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.03,0:05:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which under Israel's criminal siege\Nhas more than 60% unemployment among its population.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.05,0:05:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have no interest in propaganda...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.01,0:05:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and let my eyes bear witness, my ears stay in tune\Nwith the screaming sirens and the rumbling of TNT.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.00,0:05:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I haven't seen any terrorist among the casualities today,\Nonly civilians and policemen.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.01,0:05:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just last night I poked fun at a couple of them for the way\Nthey were cloaked up agaist the cold.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.08,0:05:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want the truth to redeem these dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.04,0:06:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They'd never fired a single shot against Israel,\Nnor would they have ever done so
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.09,0:06:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it wasn't in their job description to do so.\NThey acted as traffic wardens, took care of internal security.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.10,0:06:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The port is quite a distance from the Israeli border anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.00,0:06:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I own a video camera,\Nbut today i discovered what a terrible cameraman I am.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.06,0:06:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't bring myself to film mangled bodies\Nor faces drenched in tears. I just can't.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.09,0:06:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I start crying myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.04,0:06:35.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other International Solidarity Movement volunteers\Nand I went to Al-Shifa Hospital to give blood.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.05,0:06:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's where we received a call informing\Nus that Sara, a dear friend...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.09,0:06:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...had been killed by a piece of shrapnel\Nnear her home in refugee camp of Jabalia.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.04,0:06:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was a sweet person, a sunny soul,\Nand gone out to buy some bread for her family.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.08,0:06:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She leaves 13 children behind.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.01,0:06:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A moment ago I got a call from Tawfiq,\Nfrom Cyprus.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.03,0:07:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tawfiq is one of the Palestinian students lucky enough\Nto have left the enormous prison camp of Gaza...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.02,0:07:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...on one of our Free Gaza Movement boats,\Nto start anew somewhere else.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.03,0:07:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He asked me if I'd visited his uncle and whether\NI had gone to say hello on his behalf, as I had promised.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.01,0:07:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hesitatingly, I apologized\Nbecause I hadn't found the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.00,0:07:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was too late anyway, he was buried\Nby the rubble in the port area along with many others.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.08,0:07:33.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Israel launches the terrible threat that this is just the first day\Nof a bombing campaign that could last for up to two weeks.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.06,0:07:40.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Israel launches the terrible threat that this is just the first day\Nof a bombing campaign that could last for up to two weeks.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.05,0:07:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They want to make a desert\Nand then call it peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.02,0:07:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The 'civilized' world's silence is more deafening\Nthan the explosions covering the city...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.01,0:07:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...like a shroud of death and terror.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.01,0:08:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.04,0:08:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,29th december 2008
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.06,0:08:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dying slowly while listening out in vain
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.10,0:08:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An acrid smell of sulphur
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.01,0:08:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fills the air while the sky\Nis shaken by earth-shattering rumbles.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.00,0:08:29.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My ears are now deaf to the explosions\Nand my eyes are all out of tears from all the corpses.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.02,0:08:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I stand infront of Al-Shifa, Gazaís main hospital
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.02,0:08:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we receive Israel's latest, terrible threat:\Nthey intend to bomb the wing that is under construction.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.01,0:08:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This wouldnít be a first,\Nas Weaím Hospital was bombed just yesterday
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.04,0:08:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with a medicine warehouse in Rafah,\Nthe Islamic university
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.01,0:08:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and various mosques scattered along the Strip.\NNot to mention many other civilian infrastructures.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.00,0:09:01.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apparently, no longer able to find 'sensible' targets,\Nthe air force and navy now are killing time targeting
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.03,0:09:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,places of worship, schools and hospitals.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.08,0:09:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís another 9/11 every single hour,\Nevery minute around here...
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.08,0:09:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tomorrow is always a new day for mourning,\Nbringing equal desperation.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.00,0:09:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You notice the helicopters and airplanes\Nconstantly overhead
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.04,0:09:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see a flash, but youíre already a goner\Nand itís too late to take flight.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.02,0:09:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are no bunkers against the bombs in the Strip\Nand no place is really safe.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.04,0:09:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I canít contact my friends in Rafah,\Nnot even those who live north of Gaza City
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.05,0:09:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hopefully because the phone lines are overloaded.\NHopefully.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.00,0:09:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I haven't slept in 60 hours,\Nand the same can be said of any Gazan.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.03,0:09:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yesterday three other ISM members and I spent the night\Nat the Al-Awda Hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.01,0:09:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were there in fearful expectation\Nof the much-dreaded ground raid that never happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.04,0:09:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the Israeli tanks are strung all\Nalong the Stripís borders
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.05,0:10:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we speak, creaking their way\Ninto a funeral procession.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.07,0:10:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around 11.30pm, a bomb fell\Nabout 800 metres from the hospital...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.10,0:10:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the shock wave blowing several windows apart\Nand injuring the injured.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.01,0:10:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An ambulance rushed to the spot where a mosque\Nhad been shelled, but it was thankfully empty at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.09,0:10:23.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately\N(though it actually has nothing to do with fortune...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.01,0:10:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather with the deliberate criminal and terrorising\Nwill to massacre civilians)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.01,0:10:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Israeli bomb had also struck the building\Nadjacent to the mosque, which was likewise destroyed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.01,0:10:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We watched as the tiny bodies of six little sisters\Nwere pulled out of the rubble...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.02,0:10:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,five are dead, one is in a life-threatening condition.\NThey laid the little girls out onto the blackened asphalt...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.00,0:10:46.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they looked like broken dolls,\Ndisposed of as they were no longer usable.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.05,0:10:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This wasnít a mistake, but a wilful and cynical horror.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.08,0:10:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're now at a toll of 320 dead, more than a thousand\Nwounded and, according to a doctor at Al-Shifa...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.03,0:11:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,60% of those are destined to die in the next few\Nhours or days, after enduring a prolonged agony.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.05,0:11:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are many missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.06,0:11:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the last two days despairing wives\Nhave been searching for their husbands...
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.01,0:11:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or children in the hospitals, often to no avail.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.08,0:11:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The morgue is a macabre spectacle.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.04,0:11:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A nurse told me that, after hours of searching through\Nbody parts in the refrigerator cell, a Palestinian woman...
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.01,0:11:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recognize her husband's amputated hand.\NThat was all that was left of her husband...
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.01,0:11:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with the wedding band on her finger,\Na remnant of the eternal love they had sworn to one another.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.02,0:11:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Out of a house once inhabited by two families,\Nvery little remained of their bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.02,0:11:39.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They showed their relatives\Nhalf of one torso and three legs.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.03,0:11:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now, one of our Free Gaza Movement boat\Nis leaving the port in Larnaca, Cyprus.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.02,0:11:52.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spoke to my friends on board. They've heroically\Namassed medicine and packed it tightly onto the boat.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.05,0:11:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It should reach the port of Gaza tomorrow\Naround 8.00pm.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.01,0:12:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's to hoping that the port will still exist\Nafter another night of non-stop shelling.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.09,0:12:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll be in touch with them during the entire night.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.08,0:12:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please, someone stop this nightmare.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.08,0:12:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Choosing to remain silent means somehow\Nlends support to the genocide unfolding right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.04,0:12:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shout out your indignation,\Nin every capital of the 'civilised' world...
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.02,0:12:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in every city, in every square,\Ncovering our own screams of pain and terror.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.06,0:12:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A slice of humanity is dying\Nwhile pitifully listening out for a response.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.06,0:12:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.01,0:12:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,30th December 2008
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.09,0:13:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Angel Factories
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.02,0:13:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jabilia, Bet Hanun, Rafah, and Gaza City\Nare the legs of the journey in my personal map of hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.09,0:13:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever the press releases\Nfrom the summit of the Israeli military may say,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.00,0:13:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recited parrot-style all over Europe and the US\Nvia the disinformation experts,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.02,0:13:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the last few days Iíve been an eyewitness\Nto the bombing of mosques, schools...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.03,0:13:51.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,universities, hospitals, markets\Nand many, many civilian buildings.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.01,0:13:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The medical director at Al-Shifa Hospital has confirmed...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.06,0:14:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...he received calls from members of the IDF,\Nthe Israeli Army,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.00,0:14:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ordering him to evacuate the hospital, or else face being\Nshowered by missiles. But they never let the Army intimidate them.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.00,0:14:28.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should be sleeping at the port (though we havenít shut\Nour eyes once in Gaza for at least four days),
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.09,0:14:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but its being constantly bombed at night.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.02,0:14:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You no longer hear the sirens of ambulances in a mad chase,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.09,0:15:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply because there isnít a living soul left\Nat the port or its environs. Everyone is dead,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.00,0:15:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it feels like treading a cemetery\Nin the aftermath of an earthquake.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.08,0:15:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The situation is really that of an unnatural catastrophe,\Na hate-fuelled and cynical upheaval...
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.04,0:15:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...catapulted onto the people of Gaza like molten lead,\Ntearing human bodies apart.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.01,0:15:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Contrarily to all predictions, it unites all Palestinians,\Nbrought together by their collective endurance of a horrific massacre.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.01,0:15:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are people who may not even\Nhave greeted one another until recently,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.08,0:16:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on account of belonging to opposing factions.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.04,0:16:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when the bombs shower down\Nfrom the sky from a height of 10,000 metres,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.00,0:16:34.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can be sure they wonít make a distinction\Nbetween a Hamas or Fatah banner hanging from your window.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.01,0:16:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thereís no such thing as a surgically precise military operation.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.10,0:16:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the Air Force and the Navy start bombing,\Nthe only surgical operations...
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.08,0:17:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...are those tackled by the doctors,\Nunhesitatingly amputating limbs reduced to a pulp,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.08,0:17:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even when those arms and legs might have been spared.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.01,0:17:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thereís no time, you have to run,\Nand the time you use to treat a seriously injured limb...
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.02,0:17:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...may spell death for the next wounded patient\Nin line awaiting a transfusion, or worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.04,0:17:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At Al-Shifa Hospital, 600 inpatients are in very serious condition,\Nwith only 29 breathing machines available.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.01,0:18:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Theyíre short of everything, especially experienced staff.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.02,0:18:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For this precise reason, exhausted as we were\N(not so much by the sleepless nights...
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.05,0:18:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...as by the apathy and compliance\Nof Western governments with Israelís crimes),
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.07,0:18:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we decided that last night was time for one of our\NFree Gaza Movement boats to leave the port of Larnaca, Cyprus,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.02,0:18:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ferrying over medical staff and three tonnes of medicine.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.04,0:18:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I waited for them in vain\Nñ they ought to have docked the boat at 8am this morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:56.03,0:19:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, they were intercepted\Nby 11 Israeli war ships at 90 nautical miles from Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.10,0:19:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to sink them in full international waters.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.01,0:19:19.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They rammed into them three times,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.03,0:19:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,provoking an engine failure and a leak in the hull.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:25.08,0:19:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By pure chance the crew and passengers are all still alive,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.07,0:19:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have managed to dock the boat\Nat the port of Tiro, in southern Lebanon.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.07,0:19:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Feeling increasingly frustrated\Nby the ëcivilizedí worldís deafening silence,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.02,0:19:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my companions will make a second attempt soon.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.01,0:20:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Theyíve in fact unloaded the medicine\Nfrom our damaged boat, the Dignity,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.04,0:20:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and filled another boat ready for departure,\Nheading straight for Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.02,0:20:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many journalists who interview me ask me\Nabout the humanitarian situation of Palestinians in Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.08,0:20:40.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if the problem amounted just to food,\Nwater, electricity and fuel shortages,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.05,0:21:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than the matter being\Nabout who is actually causing all of this...
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.04,0:21:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia\NIíve seen corpses and wounded bodies flooding...
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.03,0:21:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...in not only in ambulances,\Nbut on animal-drawn wooden carts.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.03,0:21:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tanks, fighter planes, drones, Apache helicopters\Nñ the worldís fiercest army...
Dialogue: 0,0:21:37.07,0:21:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...attacking a people who use donkeys\Nas their main means of transportation, like in Jesus Christís time.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.01,0:22:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to Al-Mizan,\Na human rights monitoring centre,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.06,0:22:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while we speak 55 children have been caught in bombings,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:10.00,0:22:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,20 are dying and 40 are seriously injured.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:16.00,0:22:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Israel has turned the Palestinian hospitals\Nand morgues into angel factories,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.01,0:22:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not realizing just how much hatred\Nthey are generating in Palestine and the rest of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:37.01,0:22:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The angel factories are churning out angels at the rate\Nof a non-stop production line tonight as well:
Dialogue: 0,0:22:47.00,0:22:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can tell from the rumbles of explosions outside my window.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:59.01,0:23:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those tiny dismembered and amputated bodies,\Nthose lives snuffed out before they had a chance to blossom,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:13.00,0:23:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be a recurrent nightmare for the rest of my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.00,0:23:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I can still find the strength to talk about this,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:29.01,0:23:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,itís only because I want to bring justice to those who\Nno longer have a voice, those whoíve never had a hint of a voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.00,0:23:56.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perhaps for the benefit of those whoíve never had ears.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.05,0:24:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.10,0:24:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1st January 2009
Dialogue: 0,0:24:44.02,0:24:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Unnatural Catastrophe
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.01,0:24:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The New Year just came in with the same omens of bleakness\Nand death as the old one, increasing its destructive power tenfold.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.03,0:24:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iíve never seen so many bombs\Ndrop all around my apartment in front of the port.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.04,0:25:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An explosion just 100 metres away\Nviolently shook our seven-storey building,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.07,0:25:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making it rock like a crazed pendulum.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:03.09,0:25:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For an instant, while the window panes exploded,\Nwe dreaded it would topple over.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:08.09,0:25:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a major moment of panic in which I prayed\Nand clung to the unlikely illusion that our building had been built...
Dialogue: 0,0:25:15.02,0:25:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...using earthquake-proof criteria,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.06,0:25:21.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though Gaza is perched upon a strip\Nof land that never quakes.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:21.02,0:25:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around here earthquakes are of the unnatural kind,\Nand theyíre called Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.01,0:25:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I continue with my desperate search\Nfor those friends who no longer pick up their phone.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.02,0:25:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard from Ahmed at his place,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.00,0:25:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the few houses still standing\Nin the centre of the Tal El-Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza city,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.05,0:25:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now surrounded...
Dialogue: 0,0:25:39.07,0:25:44.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...by a post-apocalyptic scenario\Nso reminiscent of the Shiite neighbourhood in Beirut...
Dialogue: 0,0:25:44.09,0:25:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...after the bombs razed it to the ground in 2006,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.01,0:25:52.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those bombs having been produced in the same part\Nof the world as those falling on our heads right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:52.10,0:25:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ahmed is OK...
Dialogue: 0,0:25:54.06,0:25:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and so are his relatives,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.01,0:25:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though his mother had a brush with death last Saturday.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.04,0:26:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She teaches at the United Nationsí Balqees School.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:03.01,0:26:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On that day sheíd stayed on in the classroom\Nfor a little longer than usual,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:06.09,0:26:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which ended up saving her life.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.08,0:26:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of her students,\Nstanding at the bus stop,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:10.06,0:26:17.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were buried by the rubble produced after an explosion.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:17.07,0:26:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A bomb fell onto Ahmedís car,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.08,0:26:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a pistachio-green economy car,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:22.09,0:26:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the very same with which he roamed the city\Nthe previous evening, in search of some bread...
Dialogue: 0,0:26:27.01,0:26:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...in a city where flour is being sold at the price of gold.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.00,0:26:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As for Rafiq, in the end I reached him on the phone.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.05,0:26:37.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His cavernous voice\Nseemed to rise up from a deep well,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.09,0:26:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a pit of desperation and sadness...
Dialogue: 0,0:26:40.06,0:26:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...from having just heard of the death\Nof three best friends during the attack at the port.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.01,0:26:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In one of the last cafÈs still operating in Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.01,0:26:54.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,providing caffeine and an internet connection,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:54.03,0:26:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,smiling wryly I showed a couple of friends\Nan article of news from my laptop...
Dialogue: 0,0:26:58.09,0:27:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...speaking of "one victim and 382 wounded".
Dialogue: 0,0:27:02.05,0:27:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This wasnít an estimate of the victims provoked\Nby the Qassam "rockets" shot against Israel yesterday,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:07.09,0:27:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thankfully harming no one,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:10.01,0:27:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the aftermath of the "massacre" our New Yearís\NEve firework displays had provoked in Italy.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.02,0:27:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told my friends that Hamas are wet behind the ears...
Dialogue: 0,0:27:18.07,0:27:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...if they think they can compete with Israel\Nusing those homemade toys of theirs.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:22.08,0:27:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They ought to take lessons in Naples\Nto produce truly lethal rockets.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:30.08,0:27:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a pacifist and non-violent person,\NI abhor any form of Palestinian attack against Israel,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:36.04,0:27:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but out here weíre sick\Nto the back teeth of hearing that tired old adage...
Dialogue: 0,0:27:39.05,0:27:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that this massacre of civilians...
Dialogue: 0,0:27:42.04,0:27:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...was Israelís answer to the Palestinians launching\Ntheir modest, homemade "rockets".
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.03,0:27:50.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For precisionís sake, from 2002 to the present-day...
Dialogue: 0,0:27:50.09,0:27:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...the Qassam rockets against Israel\Nhave produced 18 dead,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:54.04,0:27:57.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while only last Saturday, in just a couple of hours,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:57.03,0:28:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we counted more than 250 civilian casualties in the hospitals.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.03,0:28:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the cafÈ I enquire about the ceasefire\Nproposed by the European Union and rejected by Israel,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:09.01,0:28:15.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clearly still in possession of the vast supplies of war equipment\Nit needs to use up from its arsenals.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:15.03,0:28:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They all shake their heads grimly.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.10,0:28:19.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Had there ever really been a truce...
Dialogue: 0,0:28:19.07,0:28:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...before this fierce attack\Nupon an unarmed population commenced?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:23.08,0:28:28.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In November alone,\Nthe Israeli Army killed a good 17 Palestinians
Dialogue: 0,0:28:28.09,0:28:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,43 in total from the start of the "ceasefire".
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.04,0:28:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even before that, the criminal siege of Gaza...
Dialogue: 0,0:28:36.03,0:28:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...had produced more than 200 dead\Namong the Palestinian sick.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:40.01,0:28:45.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sick, with their papers in order,\Nand waiting to find treatment in foreign hospitals,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:45.10,0:28:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but prevented from getting anywhere\Nwith the borders being sealed off.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:50.00,0:28:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The criminal siege of Israel\Nhas destroyed an already shaky economy,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:54.04,0:28:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,producing a rate of more than 60% unemployed,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.04,0:29:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forcing 80% of Palestinian families\Nto live off humanitarian aid.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:02.07,0:29:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is aid trickling through with huge difficulty,\Ncrossing the iron curtain erected by Israel...
Dialogue: 0,0:29:08.04,0:29:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...around the largest\Nopen-air prison in the world: Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:14.06,0:29:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were soon forced to evacuate that cafÈ, and fast.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:17.09,0:29:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The umpteenth threatening phone call had come in:\Nthe cafÈ would be bombed within a few minutes.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.00,0:29:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yesterday at the Jabilia refugee camp...
Dialogue: 0,0:29:27.01,0:29:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...an F16 plane\Ndropped some missiles onto an ambulance.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.01,0:29:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A doctor, Ihab El-Madhoun,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.01,0:29:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his trusted nurse, Mohamed Abu Hasira, both died.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.09,0:29:44.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For this reason, today, we ISM volunteers...
Dialogue: 0,0:29:44.06,0:29:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...have appeared at a press conference...
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.10,0:29:50.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...before the cameras\Nof the most popular Palestinian television stations.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:50.09,0:29:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We informed Israel...
Dialogue: 0,0:29:54.04,0:29:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that weíll hop on to those ambulances,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.03,0:30:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hoping that our presence as internationals\Nmay act as a slight deterrent...
Dialogue: 0,0:30:03.03,0:30:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...against these inhumane and bloody crimes.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.10,0:30:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes, our conversations get pretty bleak:
Dialogue: 0,0:30:12.02,0:30:15.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,itís likely that at the end of this massive,\Nblood-curdling attack,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:15.03,0:30:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of us will have to go out there and do a final count\Nof the dramatic toll of the dead and missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:21.04,0:30:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We try not to think about it for now.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:25.03,0:30:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:58.01,0:31:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3rd January 2009
Dialogue: 0,0:31:00.04,0:31:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ghosts demanding Justice
Dialogue: 0,0:31:03.01,0:31:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While I type this,\NIsraeli tanks have just entered the Strip.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:06.07,0:31:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The day has begun the same way\Nas the previous one ended,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.02,0:31:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the earth shaking beneath our feet,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:13.01,0:31:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sky and sea conniving endlessly\Nagainst us overhead,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.06,0:31:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hanging over the destinies\Nof a million-and-a-half people...
Dialogue: 0,0:31:19.01,0:31:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whoíve gone from the tragedy\Nof living under siege to the catastrophe...
Dialogue: 0,0:31:22.04,0:31:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...of a targeted attack on civilians.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:26.04,0:31:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My horizon is devastated by the flames,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:29.01,0:31:36.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thereíve been cannon shots rumbling from the sea\Nand bombs raining from the sky all morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:36.05,0:31:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same fishing boats\Nwe accompanied into the open sea just a few days ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:40.09,0:31:45.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well beyond the six miles imposed by Israel\Nin their illegal and criminal siege,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.06,0:31:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are now reduced to charred wrecks.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.04,0:31:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the fire-fighters tried to put out the fires,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:52.01,0:31:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,theyíd instantly become the targets\Nof the F16ís machine guns,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:56.01,0:31:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this already happened yesterday.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:59.02,0:32:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After yet another attack,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.07,0:32:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once the exact estimate of the dead is out,\Nif this will ever be possible,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:07.02,0:32:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the city will have to be rebuilt over a desert of rubble.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:11.01,0:32:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Israelís Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:14.09,0:32:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is declaring to the world\Nthat "there is no humanitarian emergency in Gaza".
Dialogue: 0,0:32:19.04,0:32:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clearly, "being in denial" isnít the sole preserve...
Dialogue: 0,0:32:23.03,0:32:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...of figures like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,\Nthe Iranian president.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:28.00,0:32:32.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Palestinians\Nare in agreement on one thing with Tzipi Livni,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:32.05,0:32:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Joseph, an ambulance driver,\Nwho calls her "an ex-serial killer with the Mossad", tells me:
Dialogue: 0,0:32:38.00,0:32:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more food is indeed coming in through the borders,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:41.01,0:32:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply because in December,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:44.03,0:32:47.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next to nothing had managed to make it\Nacross the barbed wire fence stretched out by Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:47.07,0:32:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what point is there\Nin serving freshly baked bread in a cemetery?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:53.02,0:32:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first priority ought\Nto be stopping the bombing immediately,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:57.00,0:33:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well before bringing any supplies to the survivors.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:01.02,0:33:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Corpses donít eat;
Dialogue: 0,0:33:03.00,0:33:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they can only provide compost for the earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:05.00,0:33:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, at the moment,\NGaza has never been more fertile from decomposition.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:11.00,0:33:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other hand,\Nthe disembowelled bodies of the children in the morgues...
Dialogue: 0,0:33:15.01,0:33:19.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...ought to increase the sense of guilt\Nin the indifferent lookers-on,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:19.07,0:33:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those who could have done something.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:22.00,0:33:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The images of a smiling Barack Obama,\Nthe US President, playing golf...
Dialogue: 0,0:33:27.01,0:33:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...were shown on all the Arabic satellite TV stations,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:30.10,0:33:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if to scorn the shroud of mourning covering this land,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:34.06,0:33:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, as it happens, out here no one\Nis under any illusion that the colour of oneís skin...
Dialogue: 0,0:33:38.07,0:33:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...will do wonders\Nto change Americaís foreign policy radically.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:43.10,0:33:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yesterday, Israel opened the Erez Pass...
Dialogue: 0,0:33:47.01,0:33:51.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to evacuate all foreigners\Nwho are still currently in Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:51.01,0:33:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We internationals of the ISM...
Dialogue: 0,0:33:53.03,0:33:55.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...are the only ones to have remained.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:55.09,0:34:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today we addressed the Israeli government\Nby means of a press conference,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:00.02,0:34:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,explaining the motives that commit us to staying put.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:04.05,0:34:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Weíre disgusted by the passes being opened\Nfor the evacuation of foreigners,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:09.03,0:34:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the only possible eyewitnesses to this massacre,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:12.06,0:34:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while they are being kept well shut...
Dialogue: 0,0:34:15.00,0:34:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to the flow of international doctors and nurses...
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.02,0:34:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...pressing to get in\Nand bring their heroic Palestinian colleagues some relief.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:24.06,0:34:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Weíre not going anywhere
Dialogue: 0,0:34:26.02,0:34:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we believe that our presence is essential...
Dialogue: 0,0:34:28.01,0:34:34.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to provide eyewitness accounts of the crimes\Ninflicted against an unarmed civilian population...
Dialogue: 0,0:34:34.01,0:34:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:37.04,0:34:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Weíre now up to 445 dead,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:40.04,0:34:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with over 2,300 wounded and many, many more missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:45.02,0:34:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I write this,\N63 minors have been torn apart by bombs.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:50.05,0:34:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the moment Israel has counted three victims in total.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:54.06,0:34:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We havenít fled,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:56.02,0:34:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as our consulates have advised us to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:59.02,0:35:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because weíre well aware that our contribution\Nas human shields on the ambulances in giving first aid...
Dialogue: 0,0:35:04.07,0:35:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...could be decisive in saving lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:08.09,0:35:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once again yesterday, an ambulance was hit in Gaza City.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:14.02,0:35:17.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the previous day\Ntwo doctors at the Jabalia refugee camp...
Dialogue: 0,0:35:17.03,0:35:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...had died when they were hit by a missile shot\Nfrom an Apache helicopter.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:21.10,0:35:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Personally, Iím not budging from here...
Dialogue: 0,0:35:24.06,0:35:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...because my friends\Nhave implored me not to abandon them,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:27.01,0:35:30.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my surviving friends, as well as the dead ones,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:30.09,0:35:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who crowd my sleepless nights like ghosts.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:33.01,0:35:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their diaphanous faces are still smiling at me.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:37.05,0:35:39.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,7.33pm,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:39.03,0:35:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Red Crescent Hospital in Jabalia.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:42.00,0:35:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While I was connected via phone\Nto the demonstrating crowds in Milan,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:46.00,0:35:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two bombs fell in front of the hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:49.00,0:35:50.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The front windows were shattered,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.10,0:35:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, by pure chance, the ambulances were not damaged.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:55.06,0:36:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shelling has become more frequent\Nand powerful in the last few hours.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:00.01,0:36:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nearby, Ibrahim Maqadme Mosque...
Dialogue: 0,0:36:03.09,0:36:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...has just crumbled under the bombs:
Dialogue: 0,0:36:06.07,0:36:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,itís the tenth in a week.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:08.01,0:36:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eleven victims for now, and about 50 wounded.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:12.01,0:36:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An elderly Palestinian lady\NI met in the street this afternoon...
Dialogue: 0,0:36:15.09,0:36:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...asked me whether Israel thought it was still\Nin the Middle Ages rather than in 2009,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:21.01,0:36:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,considering the way it continues\Nto hit mosques with such precision.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:26.01,0:36:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís as if it is concentrating on a personal holy war\Nagainst all the Muslim places of worship in Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:33.08,0:36:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet another downpour of bombs hit Jabalia,\Nand then the tanks came in.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:38.08,0:36:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They, which had tormented the borders by day\Nwith their creaking,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:43.02,0:36:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are now entering north-west Gaza\Nand razing the houses, metre by metre.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:49.05,0:36:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Theyíre burying the past and the future,\Nwhole families and an entire population,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:55.03,0:36:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,illegitimately dismissed from its own land,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:58.05,0:37:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a people who havenít found any form of shelter\Nexcept for huts in refugee camps.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:04.04,0:37:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We rushed out here to Jabalia after another terrible menace\Nshowered down from the sky last Friday evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:11.01,0:37:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hundreds of leaflets were thrown out of the planes...
Dialogue: 0,0:37:13.09,0:37:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...ordered the general evacuation of the refugee camp.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:17.02,0:37:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This threat has unfortunately materialized.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:20.04,0:37:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most fortunate have managed to escape instantly,\Ntaking a few possessions with them,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:25.05,0:37:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a TV, a DVD player,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:27.01,0:37:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a few pieces of memorabilia\Nfrom the life that once existed in Palestine,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.02,0:37:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a land lost about 60 years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:36.00,0:37:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The vast majority havenít found anywhere to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:39.04,0:37:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They will face those tanks hankering after their lives...
Dialogue: 0,0:37:43.02,0:37:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...with the only weapon the Palestinians have left,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:45.08,0:37:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dignity of dying with their heads held up high.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:49.04,0:37:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My companions and I\Nare aware of the enormous risk weíre coming up against...
Dialogue: 0,0:37:54.00,0:37:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...tonight more than any other.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:57.08,0:38:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But weíre more at ease in the midst of this Gazan hell...
Dialogue: 0,0:38:01.06,0:38:05.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...than relaxing in a metropolitan heaven\Nin Europe or America,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:05.01,0:38:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where people celebrating the New Year...
Dialogue: 0,0:38:08.02,0:38:11.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and arenít really aware of just how complicit they are...
Dialogue: 0,0:38:11.09,0:38:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...with the butchering of all these innocent civilians.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:16.03,0:38:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:51.00,0:38:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,5th January 2009
Dialogue: 0,0:38:55.00,0:39:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doctors with Wings: Arafa Abed Al-Dayem R.I.P.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:03.03,0:39:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"To the innocent people of Gaza,\Nour war is not against you but against Hamas.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:09.08,0:39:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they donít stop shooting rockets against us,\Nyouíll be in danger."
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.00,0:39:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís the transcription of a recording you can hear\Nwhen answering the phone in Gaza just now.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:24.04,0:39:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Israeli Army is under the illusion that
Dialogue: 0,0:39:28.01,0:39:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Palestinians have no eyes or ears.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:31.01,0:39:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No eyes to see that the bombs\Nare hitting civilian targets almost exclusively,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:38.01,0:39:40.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as mosques
Dialogue: 0,0:39:40.07,0:39:47.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(15, the last being\Nthe Omar Bin Abd Al-Azeez in Beit Hanoun),
Dialogue: 0,0:39:47.06,0:39:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,schools, universities, markets and hospitals.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.08,0:39:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No ears to hear the cries of pain\Nand terror of the children,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:59.02,0:40:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,innocent victims...
Dialogue: 0,0:40:01.04,0:40:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and yet, at the same time,\Nthe pre-determined targets of each one of these bombings.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.02,0:40:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to hospital records, as Iím writing,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:11.02,0:40:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,120 minors were struck by the bombs,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:15.04,0:40:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,548 being the total death toll so far,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:19.05,0:40:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in addition to 2,700 wounded and many,\Nmany more missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:26.00,0:40:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two days ago, night time never came\Nto the Red Crescent Hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:33.01,0:40:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apache helicopters hovering constantly overhead\Nshower us with luminescent devices,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:39.01,0:40:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the point that we could no longer\Ntell the difference between day and night.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:43.04,0:40:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The repeated cannon fire from a tank\Npositioned less than a kilometre from the hospital...
Dialogue: 0,0:40:48.09,0:40:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...seriously cracked open the buildingís walls,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:52.03,0:40:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it managed to stand more\Nor less intact until morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:58.06,0:41:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around 10 white phosphorous bombs\Nwere dropped on the neighbouring field,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:03.01,0:41:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with machine gun fire exploding all around.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:07.02,0:41:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the doctors of the Red Crescent Hospital,\Nthis was clearly a message from the Israeli Army
Dialogue: 0,0:41:13.00,0:41:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ordering an immediate evacuation
Dialogue: 0,0:41:16.04,0:41:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(or face destruction).
Dialogue: 0,0:41:18.07,0:41:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We moved the wounded into other hospitals,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:21.06,0:41:26.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the operative ambulance base\Nis now on Al-Nady Street.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:26.10,0:41:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The medical staff\Nsits on the sidewalk waiting for the calls...
Dialogue: 0,0:41:31.02,0:41:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that follow one after the other, frantically.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:34.02,0:41:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the first time since the Israeli attack started,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:37.00,0:41:41.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iíve actually seen corpses of members\Nof the Palestinian Resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:41.05,0:41:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A handful of individuals,\Nnext to the hundreds of civilian victims,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:45.07,0:41:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the numbers of whom\Nhave risen exponentially since the land attacks started.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:52.04,0:41:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Following the shooting at Jabalia Mosque,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:54.10,0:41:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which left 11 dead and about 50 wounded\Nand all of which took place while the tanks were coming in,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:59.01,0:42:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the whole of Saturday on board the ambulances...
Dialogue: 0,0:42:04.09,0:42:11.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...we realized just how terrifyingly\Npowerful the howitzers shot by the Israeli tanks were,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:11.09,0:42:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if destructive power\Nhad been lacking in the previous few days.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:16.02,0:42:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At Beit Hanoun,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:17.09,0:42:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a family huddled\Nin front of a wood stove in their house,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:21.01,0:42:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was struck by one such killer cannon shot.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:24.06,0:42:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We carried 15 wounded away,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:27.03,0:42:30.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,four of whom were in a hopeless condition.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:30.03,0:42:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Later,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:31.08,0:42:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards 3.30am,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:34.04,0:42:36.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we replied to an emergency call,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:36.05,0:42:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we ended up being too late.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:38.09,0:42:42.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Standing by their front door,\Nthree women in tears...
Dialogue: 0,0:42:42.01,0:42:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...handed us a four-year-old girl\Nwrapped in a white sheet,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:46.01,0:42:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shroud, she was stone cold by then.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:49.08,0:42:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another family was hit in full,\Nthis time by the Air Force in Jabalia,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:54.01,0:42:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with two adults injured by shrapnel.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:58.00,0:43:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their two children were only slightly hurt,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:01.07,0:43:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but from their screaming it was obvious\Nthey were suffering from psychological trauma,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:06.00,0:43:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something they would carry with them\Nfor the rest of their lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:10.03,0:43:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an injury much deeper than a cut on the cheek.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:14.02,0:43:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though no one ever remembers to mention them,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:16.08,0:43:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are thousands of children\Nsuffering from serious mental illnesses
Dialogue: 0,0:43:20.09,0:43:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caused by the terror of constant bombing,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:25.01,0:43:33.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or, worse, by the sight of their parents\Nor siblings being torn apart by the explosions.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:33.05,0:43:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The crimes that Israel\Nis staining its bloodied hands with in these hours...
Dialogue: 0,0:43:39.01,0:43:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...go well beyond the boundaries of what can be imagined.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:42.10,0:43:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The soldiers actually prevent us\Nfrom running to the aid of the survivors...
Dialogue: 0,0:43:46.04,0:43:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...in this immense unnatural catastrophe.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.02,0:43:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the wounded are close to the armoured vehicles\Nthey were just attacked by,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:54.06,0:44:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we, in our Red Crescent ambulances,\Narenít allowed anywhere near,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:01.09,0:44:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the soldiers take pot shots at us.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:06.10,0:44:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before we can hope to run in aid of any human lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:10.10,0:44:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to be escorted\Nby at least one Red Cross ambulance,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:17.00,0:44:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thanks to an agreement\Nof the latter with the Israeli Armyís senior command.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:21.10,0:44:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just try and imagine\Nhow long such proceedings would take
Dialogue: 0,0:44:25.03,0:44:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a death sentence...
Dialogue: 0,0:44:27.08,0:44:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...for all those awaiting transfusions or urgent care.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:31.04,0:44:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is even truer considering\Nthe Red Cross has its own wounded to care for,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:38.04,0:44:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaving them without a chance\Nof answering our every call.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:44.00,0:44:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must thus park in a "protected" area,\Nthis term being a euphemism in Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:50.04,0:44:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wait for people to bring us their languishing relatives,\Noften carrying them on foot.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:58.01,0:45:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thatís what happened around 5.30 this morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:01.06,0:45:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We stopped the ambulance with the engine on,\Nin the middle of a crossing,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:05.08,0:45:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,communicating our whereabouts via phone\Nto the relatives of some patients on their way.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:11.04,0:45:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After 10 unnerving minutes,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:13.09,0:45:17.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when weíd already decided to evacuate the area...
Dialogue: 0,0:45:17.03,0:45:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...in response to another call,\Nwe noticed them as they turned the corner,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:20.09,0:45:26.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,advancing towards us slowly,\Na mule-drawn cart carrying some people.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:26.10,0:45:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It turned out to be a couple and their two children.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:29.10,0:45:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The best possible illustration of this non-war.\NThis isnít really a war.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:34.08,0:45:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There arenít two armies battling it out on one front,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:37.01,0:45:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a people enduring a siege by an Air Force, a Navy,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:42.03,0:45:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what is now\None of the worldís most powerful infantries,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:47.00,0:45:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certainly the most technologically advanced\Nwhen it comes to military equipment.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:52.07,0:45:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here they are, attacking a miserable strip of land,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:56.01,0:45:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just 360 square kilometres,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:59.03,0:46:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a place where its inhabitants\Nstill use mules to move around,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:04.08,0:46:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a hotchpotch resistance\Nwhose only real strength is their readiness for martyrdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:12.09,0:46:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When that mule-drawn cart got close enough,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:17.04,0:46:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,approached them and beheld its macabre cargo with horror.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:22.01,0:46:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A child was lying with his skull cracked open,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:25.08,0:46:29.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his eyeballs literally hanging out of their sockets,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:29.03,0:46:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,swaying onto his face like those at the end of a crabís stalks.\NWhen we picked him up, he was still breathing.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:35.00,0:46:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His little brother had a disembowelled chest,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:39.00,0:46:44.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you could distinctly count\Nhis white ribs through the tatters of his torn flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:44.06,0:46:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their mother pressed her hands\Non to that eviscerated chest,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:48.04,0:46:52.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if trying to fix what the fruit of her love\Nhad managed to create,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:52.05,0:46:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and which the anonymous hatred of a soldier,\Nobeying orders,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:56.00,0:46:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had now forever destroyed.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:58.08,0:47:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet another crime I want to report,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:03.03,0:47:05.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our umpteenth personal mourning.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:05.01,0:47:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Israeli Army continues to target the ambulances.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:10.00,0:47:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the butchering\Nof the doctor and nurse in Jabalia four days ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:14.04,0:47:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,odayís new victim was a friend of ours:\N35-year-old Arafa Abed Al-Dayem,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:21.09,0:47:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a father of four.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:23.09,0:47:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around 8.30 yesterday morning,\Nwe received a call from Gaza City.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:29.01,0:47:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two civilians had been struck down\Nby a tankís machine-gun fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:33.04,0:47:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of our Red Crescent ambulances\Nrushed to their aid.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:39.04,0:47:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arafa and one of the nurses\Nwere loading the two wounded onto the ambulance...
Dialogue: 0,0:47:43.02,0:47:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and, while shutting the ambulance doors,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:45.05,0:47:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were hit by a howitzer from a tank.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:48.01,0:47:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shot decapitated one of the wounded\Nand also killed our friend.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:54.01,0:47:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nader, the nurse accompanying them,\Nmanaged to survive...
Dialogue: 0,0:47:58.09,0:48:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...although he is now a patient\Nin the same hospital that he works in.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:02.06,0:48:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arafa, an elementary school teacher,\Nwas a voluntary paramedic in emergencies.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:08.08,0:48:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were being showered with bombs and, yet,\Nhadnít had the heart to call Arafa in such a high-risk situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:15.01,0:48:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He showed up of his own accord, working\Nwith a full awareness of the risks involved,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:20.02,0:48:23.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,convinced as he was that, aside from his family,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:23.07,0:48:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were other human beings\Nin need of protection and aid.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:27.10,0:48:30.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We miss his jokes,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:30.01,0:48:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his irresistible and contagious sense of humour,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:34.00,0:48:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a balm for the soul in our bleakest moments.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:38.02,0:48:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone has to stop this massacre.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:41.01,0:48:44.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the last few days\NIíve seen things, heard uproars...
Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.07,0:48:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and smelt pestilential miasmas\Nthat Iíll never have the courage to talk about,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:50.07,0:48:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I should ever have children of my own.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:56.02,0:48:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there anyone out there?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:59.02,0:49:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The desolation of feeling isolated and abandoned is equivalent\Nto a view of a Gaza neighbourhood after a heavy air raid campaign.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:05.09,0:49:07.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saturday evening,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:07.03,0:49:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was connected via phone\Nto the protesting crowds in Milan,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:11.05,0:49:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I handed my cell phone over to the heroic doctors\Nand nurses Iím working with at the moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:17.01,0:49:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They looked reassured for a few moments.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:21.00,0:49:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Demonstrations the world\Nover are a sign that you can still believe in someone,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:25.01,0:49:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but these demonstrations are still not large enough\Nto exercise the necessary pressure on Western governments,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:32.07,0:49:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which should be forcing Israel into a corner,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:35.06,0:49:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making it take responsibility\Nfor its war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:44.04,0:49:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many terrified pregnant women\Nare prematurely giving birth right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:50.03,0:49:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was personally present with three of them\Nas they were rushed to the delivery room.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:55.07,0:49:59.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of these, Samira, seven months pregnant,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:59.05,0:50:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gave birth to a beautiful, tiny baby called Ahmed.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:03.01,0:50:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rushing to the Al-Auda Hospital\Non board the ambulance with her...
Dialogue: 0,0:50:06.08,0:50:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and leaving behind in our rear-view mirrors\Nthe scenarios of death and destruction
Dialogue: 0,0:50:11.01,0:50:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(the places where just a moment before\Nweíd been picking up corpses)
Dialogue: 0,0:50:16.01,0:50:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought for a moment that this new life,\Non the point of blossoming,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:21.01,0:50:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be a harbinger for future hope and peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:24.01,0:50:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the illusion melted away with the first rocket...
Dialogue: 0,0:50:28.04,0:50:32.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...falling by the side of our ambulance\Nfrom the centre of Jabalia.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:32.09,0:50:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These brave mothers sadly give birth to creatures...
Dialogue: 0,0:50:36.00,0:50:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...who take in nothing\Nbut the military green of tanks and jeeps...
Dialogue: 0,0:50:41.00,0:50:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...or the blinking flashes that precede an explosion.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:45.08,0:50:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What kind of adults will they grow up to be?
Dialogue: 0,0:50:51.08,0:51:34.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:34.09,0:51:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,6th january 2009
Dialogue: 0,0:51:38.00,0:51:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Al-Nakba
Dialogue: 0,0:51:40.06,0:51:44.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They parade in fear, their eyes turned upwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:44.01,0:51:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surrendering to the sky which keeps raining terror\Nand death down upon them,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:49.02,0:51:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fearing the earth that keeps shaking\Nunder them with every step they take,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:51.10,0:51:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,craters opening up where there were once houses,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:56.01,0:52:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,schools, universities, markets and hospitals.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:02.06,0:52:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've seen caravans of desperate Palestinians...
Dialogue: 0,0:52:07.01,0:52:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...evacuate Jabalia, Beit Hanoun\Nand all the refugee camps in Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:13.01,0:52:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crowding the United Nations' schools\Nlike earthquake survivors,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:20.08,0:52:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the victims of a tsunami...
Dialogue: 0,0:52:23.05,0:52:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...eating into the Gaza Strip\Nand its civilian population,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:30.04,0:52:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without pity or compliance with human rights\Nand the Geneva Conventions.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:37.00,0:52:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of all, without a single Western government\Nlifting a finger to stop this massacre,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:48.00,0:52:57.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or sending medical staff out here, or stopping the genocide\Nthat Israel is smearing its hands with in these hours.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:57.01,0:53:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The indiscriminate attacks against\Nthe hospitals and their medical staff continue.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:06.02,0:53:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yesterday, after having left the Al-Auda Hospital in Jabalia,\NI received a call from Alberto,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:12.10,0:53:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Spanish colleague with the ISM.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:16.04,0:53:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A bomb had been dropped there
Dialogue: 0,0:53:20.00,0:53:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Abu Mohammed, a nurse,\Nhad been seriously injured to his head.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:25.01,0:53:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just moments before, in front of a cafÈ,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:34.07,0:53:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd been listening to the stories of the heroic deeds\Nof the communist Abu Mohammed's heroes...
Dialogue: 0,0:53:39.04,0:53:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...the leaders of the Popular Front:\NGeorge Habbash, Abu Ali Mustafa and Ahmad Al-Sadat.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:50.03,0:53:54.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His eyes lit up when I told him...
Dialogue: 0,0:53:54.09,0:54:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that the first understanding of Palestine\Nand its immense tragedy had been passed onto me by my parents,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:04.01,0:54:08.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both communists through and through.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:08.03,0:54:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He asked me who'd been the truly\Nrevolutionary leaders of the italian left,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:17.04,0:54:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'd replied, "Antonio Gramsci".
Dialogue: 0,0:54:23.08,0:54:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As for those of the present-day,\NI'd said I'd think it over and tell him the next day.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:31.08,0:54:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Abu Mohammed now lies in a coma,\Nin the same hospital where he works.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:41.01,0:54:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He spared himself my disappointing reply.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:46.03,0:54:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Towards midnight I received another call,\Nfrom Eva this time.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:50.03,0:54:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The building she was in was under attack.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:54.01,0:55:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that building well:\Nit's in downtown Gaza City.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:00.06,0:55:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd once spent the night there along\Nwith some Palestinian photojournalist,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:10.01,0:55:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose job it is to try\Nand capture through images and words...
Dialogue: 0,0:55:14.01,0:55:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...something of the unnatural catastrophe\Nwe've been enduring these last 10 days.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:22.00,0:55:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reuters, Fox News, Russia Today\Nand many, many other local or foreign agencies
Dialogue: 0,0:55:29.05,0:55:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were under fire from seven rockets shot\Nby an Israeli helicopter.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:36.00,0:55:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They managed to evacuate everyone in time\Nbefore anyone could be seriously injured
Dialogue: 0,0:55:43.04,0:55:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all those cameramen, photographers, reporters,\Nall Palestinian,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:50.02,0:55:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,given that Israel won't allow\Nany international journalists into Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:59.00,0:56:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are no "strategic" targets\Naround that building,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:04.01,0:56:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor a resistance fighting off\Nthe deadly armoured Israeli vehicles,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:12.06,0:56:17.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,currently located only a long way away\Ntowards the north.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:17.05,0:56:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clearly, someone in Tel Aviv cannot bear\Nthe images of the massacres of civilians...
Dialogue: 0,0:56:26.08,0:56:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...clashing with those briefings the Israeli officers provide,\Nwhile offering mercenary journalists their aperitifs.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:36.01,0:56:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These press conferences\Nare persuading the world...
Dialogue: 0,0:56:41.00,0:56:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that the bombing targets\Nare solely targeting Hamas terrorists,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:47.08,0:56:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not one of those atrociously mutilated children\Nwe pull out of the rubble every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:58.01,0:57:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Zeitoun,\Nabout 10 kilometres from Jabalia,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:02.03,0:57:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bombed building crumbled over a family,\Nleaving about 20 dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:09.00,0:57:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ambulances had to wait several hours\Nbefore they could reach the spot,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:14.09,0:57:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the military persist in shooting at us.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:19.05,0:57:24.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They shoot at ambulances\Nand bomb hospitals.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:24.03,0:57:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few days ago, while I was being interviewed\Nlive on a well-known Milanese radio station,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:29.04,0:57:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an Israeli "pacifist"\Nclearly spelt out to me...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:33.04,0:57:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that this was a war where both sides\Nused all the weapons at their disposal.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:41.00,0:57:53.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I then invited Israel to drop one\Nof its many atomic bombs upon us,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:53.06,0:57:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those they keep secretly stashed away,\Ndefying all treaties against nuclear proliferation.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:59.01,0:58:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not just drop that decisive bomb of theirs
Dialogue: 0,0:58:04.00,0:58:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put an end to the inhuman agony of thousands of bodies,\Nlying in tatters in the overcrowded hospital wards that I visit?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:17.02,0:58:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took some black-and-white photos yesterday,\Nthe caravans of mule-drawn carts,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:24.05,0:58:31.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,overloaded beyond belief with children\Nwaving white drapes pointing skywards,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:31.05,0:58:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their faces pale and terrified.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:38.05,0:58:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking through those snaps of fleeing refugees today,\Nshivers went down my spine.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:48.08,0:58:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they could only be superimposed with those\Nportraying the Nakba of 1948, the Palestinian catastrophe,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:59.00,0:59:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would be the perfect mirror image of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:02.08,0:59:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cowardly passiveness\Nof self-styled democratic states and governments...
Dialogue: 0,0:59:09.00,0:59:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...are responsible\Nfor a new catastrophe in full swing,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:13.00,0:59:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a new Nakba, a brand new ethnic cleansing\Nbefalling the Palestinian population right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:21.01,0:59:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until a few moments ago we counted 650 dead,\N153 murdered children,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:29.01,0:59:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in addition to 3,000 injured,\Nand innumerable missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:35.01,0:59:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The number of civilian deaths in Israel\Nhas thankfully remained at four.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:43.08,0:59:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But after this afternoon the death toll on the Palestinian side\Nrequires an urgent recount,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:52.03,0:59:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ever since the Israeli Army has started attacking\Nthe United Nations schools,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:59.00,1:00:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the very same that had been offering shelter\Nto the thousands evacuated under threat of an imminent attack.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:08.01,1:00:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They chased them out of the refugee camps, the villages,\Nonly to collect them all in one place,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:17.09,1:00:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an easier target.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:21.01,1:00:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three schools were attacked today,\Nthe last being at Al-Fakhura, in Jabalia,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:31.00,1:00:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was hit smack bang in the middle.\NOver 40 dead:
Dialogue: 0,1:00:36.03,1:00:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a heartbeat,\Nmen, women, elderly people and children were wiped away,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:41.03,1:00:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who believed themselves to be safe within those\Nblue-tinted walls adorned by a United Nations logo.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:51.04,1:00:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The peole sheltered within the other 20 UN schools\Nare now shaking with fear.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:58.00,1:01:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no way out anywhere\Nin the Gaza Strip.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:01.06,1:01:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This isn't Lebanon, where the civilians in the southern villages\Ntargeted by the Israeli bombs...
Dialogue: 0,1:01:07.01,1:01:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...could flee to the north,\Nor to Syria or Jordan.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:13.00,1:01:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From being one enormous open-air prison,\Nthe Gaza Strip has become a deadly trap.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:26.01,1:01:28.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We look at one another in bewilderment...
Dialogue: 0,1:01:28.07,1:01:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and ask ourselves\Nwhether the UN Security Council will finally...
Dialogue: 0,1:01:34.03,1:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and unanimously condemn...
Dialogue: 0,1:01:41.00,1:01:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...these attacks\Nafter their own schools have been targeted.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:47.01,1:01:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone out there has really decided...
Dialogue: 0,1:01:52.07,1:01:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to turn this place into a desert,\Nand then call it peace.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:57.09,1:02:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A long night on the ambulances awaits us now, even though the arrival\Nof down has become nothing but an illusion around here.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:07.08,1:02:17.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Antenna towers all along the Strip have been destroyed\Nand we've stopped relying of them for our mobile phones.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:17.07,1:02:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope I may one day be able to see all the friends\NI can no longer contact, but I'm under no illusions.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:26.08,1:02:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bar none, everyone in Gaza\Nis a walking target.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:37.00,1:02:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Italian Consulate has just contacted me,\Nsaying that tomorrow they'll evacuate a fellow italian,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:47.01,1:02:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an elderly nun who'd lived\Nnear the Catholic church in Gaza for the last 20 years,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:55.03,1:03:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who had by now\Nbeen adopted by the Palestinians in the Strip.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:01.05,1:03:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The consul gently urged me\Nto seize this last opportunity...
Dialogue: 0,1:03:07.09,1:03:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and escape from this hell with the nun.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:14.01,1:03:22.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thanked him for the offer,\Nand told him I'm not moving from here, I just can't.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:22.06,1:03:26.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the sake of the losses we endured...
Dialogue: 0,1:03:26.09,1:03:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...before being Italian, Spanish, British or Australian,\Nright now we are all Palestinian.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:37.00,1:03:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If only we could do that for just one minute a day,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:48.05,1:03:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way we were all Jewish during the Holocaust,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:53.10,1:04:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we would have been spared this entire massacre.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:03.10,1:04:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay Human
Dialogue: 0,1:04:32.00,1:04:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,7th January 2009
Dialogue: 0,1:04:34.08,1:04:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slingshots vs. White Phosphorous Bombs
Dialogue: 0,1:04:38.09,1:04:42.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Take some kittens,\Nsome tender little moggies in a box",
Dialogue: 0,1:04:42.07,1:04:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,said Jamal,\Na surgeon at Al-Shifa, Gazaís main hospital,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:47.02,1:04:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while a nurse actually placed a couple\Nof blood-stained cardboard boxes in front of us.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:52.01,1:04:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Seal it up, then jump on it\Nwith all your weight and might,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:56.09,1:05:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until you feel their little bones crunching,\Nand you hear the last muffled little mew."
Dialogue: 0,1:05:03.08,1:05:08.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I stared at the boxes in astonishment,\Nand the doctor continued:
Dialogue: 0,1:05:08.03,1:05:12.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Try to imagine what would happen\Nafter such images were circulated.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:12.07,1:05:15.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The righteous outrage of public opinion,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:15.05,1:05:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the complaints of the animal rights organizations...."
Dialogue: 0,1:05:18.01,1:05:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The doctors went on in this vein,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:20.07,1:05:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was unable\Nto take my eyes off the boxes at our feet.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:24.01,1:05:29.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Israel trapped hundreds of civilians\Ninside a school as if in a box,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:29.09,1:05:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including many children,\Nand then crushed them with all the might of its bombs.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:35.07,1:05:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What were the worldís reactions?
Dialogue: 0,1:05:38.01,1:05:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Almost nothing.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:40.01,1:05:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We would have been better\Noff as animals rather than Palestinians,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:44.08,1:05:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we would have been better protected."
Dialogue: 0,1:05:48.08,1:05:54.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At this point the doctor leans towards one of the boxes,\Nand takes its lid off in front of me.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:54.03,1:06:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inside it are the amputated limbs,\Nlegs and arms, some from the knee down,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:00.09,1:06:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,others with the entire femur attached, from amputees injured\Nat the Al-Fakhura United Nations school in Jabalia,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:08.06,1:06:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which resulted in more than 50 casualties.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:12.02,1:06:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pretending to be taking an urgent call,\NI took my leave of Jamal,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:15.09,1:06:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually rushing to the bathroom to throw up.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:19.04,1:06:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A little earlier Iíd been involved in a conversation\Nwith Dr. Abdel, an ophthalmologist,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:25.01,1:06:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regarding the rumours\Nthat the Israeli Army had been showering us...
Dialogue: 0,1:06:29.01,1:06:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...with non-conventional weapons,\Nforbidden by the Geneva Convention,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:33.02,1:06:36.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as cluster bombs and white phosphorous.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:36.09,1:06:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The very same that the Israeli Army\Nused during the last Lebanese war,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:41.00,1:06:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as the US Air Force in Falluja,\Nin violation of international norms.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:47.04,1:06:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In front of Al-Awda Hospital\Nwe witnessed and filmed white phosphorous bombs...
Dialogue: 0,1:06:51.00,1:06:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...being used about 500 metres from where we stood,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:55.10,1:07:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too far away to be absolutely certain\Nthere were any civilians underneath the Israeli Apaches,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:02.01,1:07:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but so terribly close all the same.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:05.07,1:07:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Geneva Treaty of 1980...
Dialogue: 0,1:07:08.00,1:07:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...forbids white phosphorous\Nbeing used directly as a war weapon in civilian areas,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:13.01,1:07:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allowing it only as a smoke screen or for lighting.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:18.01,1:07:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thereís no doubt that using this weapon in Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:21.06,1:07:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a strip of land concentrating\Nthe highest population rate in the world,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:25.01,1:07:28.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a crime all on its own.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:28.07,1:07:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doctor Abdel told me that at Al-Shifa Hospital...
Dialogue: 0,1:07:32.01,1:07:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...they donít have the medical and military competence
Dialogue: 0,1:07:36.02,1:07:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to say for sure whether the wounds they examined\Non certain corpses were indeed caused by illegal weapons.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:42.06,1:07:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he gave his word that, in 20 years on the job,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:46.04,1:07:51.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he had never seen casualties like these\Nthat were now being carried into the ward.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:51.05,1:07:54.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He told me about the traumas to the skull,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:54.03,1:08:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the fractures to the vomer bone, the jaw,\Nthe cheekbones, the tear ducts, the nasal and palatine bones,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:02.01,1:08:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all showing signs of the collision\Nof an immense force against the victimís face.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:08.04,1:08:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What he finds inexplicable is the total lack of eyeballs,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:12.08,1:08:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which ought to leave a trace somewhere\Nwithin the skull even with such a violent impact.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:18.05,1:08:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, we see Palestinian corpses\Ncoming into the hospitals without any eyes at all,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:24.05,1:08:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if someone had removed them surgically\Nbefore handing them over to the coroner.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:30.04,1:08:35.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Israel has let us know that weíve been generously\Ngranted a three-hour daily ceasefire,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:35.05,1:08:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from 1.00 to 4.00pm.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:38.02,1:08:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These statements from the Israeli military leadership\Nare considered by the people of Gaza...
Dialogue: 0,1:08:42.08,1:08:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...as having the same reliability as the Hamas leadersí declarations\Nthat theyíve just provoked a massacre of enemy soldiers.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:50.07,1:08:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just to be clear on this point, Tel Avivís worst enemy\Nis the very same that fights under the Star of David.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:58.06,1:09:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yesterday, a warship off the coast of Gazaís port...
Dialogue: 0,1:09:02.03,1:09:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...picked out a large group of alleged guerrilla fighters\Nfrom the Palestinian Resistance,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:06.08,1:09:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moving as a united front around Jabalia.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:10.02,1:09:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They shot their cannons at them.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:12.06,1:09:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as it turned out, they were their own fellow soldiers,\Nwith the shooting resulting in three being killed...
Dialogue: 0,1:09:18.09,1:09:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and about 20 injured.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:22.04,1:09:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one here believes in the ceasefires that Israel calls,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:26.02,1:09:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as it happens, today at 2.00pm\NRafah was under attack by Israeli helicopters.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:32.00,1:09:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was also yet\Nanother massacre of children in Jabalia:
Dialogue: 0,1:09:36.08,1:09:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three little sisters aged two, four and six...
Dialogue: 0,1:09:41.08,1:09:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...from the Abed Rabbu family were slaughtered.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:44.08,1:09:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just half-an-hour earlier in Jabalia, once again\Nthe Red Crescent Hospitalís ambulances were under attack.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:51.08,1:09:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eva and Alberto, my ISM companions were on board\Nthat ambulance and managed to film everything,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:59.01,1:10:03.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passing those videos and photos\Non to all the major media.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:03.05,1:10:08.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hassan was kneecapped,\Nfresh from mourning the death of his friend Araf,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:08.05,1:10:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a paramedic who was killed two days ago\Nas he was going in aid of the injured in Gaza City.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:14.06,1:10:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had stopped to pick up the body of a man\Nlanguishing in the middle of the road,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:18.09,1:10:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they were showered\Nby about 10 shots from an Israeli sniper.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:23.08,1:10:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One bullet hit Hassan in the knee\Nand the ambulance was filled with holes.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:29.05,1:10:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Travelling towards Al-Quds Hospital,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:34.06,1:10:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I raced along on board\None of the very few fearless taxi drivers left,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:39.00,1:10:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,zigzagging to avoid the bombs,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:42.00,1:10:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, on the corner of one street, I saw a group\Nof dirty street urchins in tattered clothes,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:48.00,1:10:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking exactly like the "sciusci‡" kids\Nof the Italian post-war period.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:53.03,1:10:57.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They threw stones towards the sky with slingshots,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:57.03,1:11:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a remote\Nand unreachable enemy toying with their lives.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:01.09,1:11:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a crazy metaphor, which could serve\Nas a snapshot of the absurdity of this place at the moment.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:10.01,1:11:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:37.02,1:11:39.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,8th january 2009
Dialogue: 0,1:11:39.03,1:11:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I won't leave my country!
Dialogue: 0,1:11:42.06,1:11:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My toothpaste, toothbrush,\Nrazors and shaving foam.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:47.04,1:11:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The clothes I'm wearing, the cough medicine\NI'm using to get rid of a persistent cough,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:53.01,1:11:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the cigarettes I bought for Ahmed,\Nand some tobacco for my arghile.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:58.00,1:12:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My cell phone, the laptop onto which I compulsively type\Neyewitness accounts from the hell surrounding me.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:08.04,1:12:14.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All that's needed for a modest,\Nyet dignified, existence in Gaza comes from Egypt,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:14.05,1:12:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and arrives onto the shop\Nshelves through the tunnels.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:21.00,1:12:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the very same tunnels that the Israeli F16s\Nhaven't stopped bombing heavily in the last 12 hours,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:30.00,1:12:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,destroying thousands of Rafah houses\Nnear the border.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:36.04,1:12:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few months ago\NI had three dodgy teeth fixed,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:41.04,1:12:49.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at the end of the operation I asked my Palestinian dentist\Nwhere he'd gotten all of his dental equipment from
Dialogue: 0,1:12:49.03,1:12:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the anaesthetic, the syringes, the ceramic inlays\Nand all the other tools.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:54.02,1:12:59.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With a sly look on his face, he'd made\Na certain gesture with his hand: from underground.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:59.09,1:13:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no doubt that explosives and weapons\Nwere also smuggled through the tunnels underneath Rafah,
Dialogue: 0,1:13:06.00,1:13:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the very same that the resistance is using today to try\Nand contain the terrifying advance of the Israeli tanks.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:15.04,1:13:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's next to nothing compared with the tonnes\Nof consumer goods flowing into famished Gaza...
Dialogue: 0,1:13:22.10,1:13:26.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...under this criminal siege.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:26.09,1:13:36.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's easy enough to find photos on the web showing\Nhow even livestock comes in from Egypt through the tunnels.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:36.07,1:13:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sedated, strapped-up goats and cows\Nare lowered into an Egyptian well,
Dialogue: 0,1:13:44.05,1:13:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,re-emerging on this side\Nto provide milk, cheese and meat.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:50.02,1:13:55.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even the main hospitals in the Strip\Nstock up surreptitiously at the border.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:55.05,1:14:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tunnels were the only means by which\Nthe Palestinians could survive the siege.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:03.00,1:14:10.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Long before the current bombing, this siege\Nbecame the cause of a 60% unemployment rate,
Dialogue: 0,1:14:10.07,1:14:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forcing 80% of families\Nto live off humanitarian handouts.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:17.04,1:14:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our ISM colleagues in Rafah\Ndescribe the umpteenth mass exodus they've witnessed:
Dialogue: 0,1:14:23.09,1:14:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caravans of desperate refugees leaving their homes\Nfor Egypt, on mule-drawn carts or hodgepodge vehicles.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:33.01,1:14:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A dÈj‡-vu scenario. In recent days, leaflets were raining down\Nfrom the planes, intimidating the Palestinians into evacuating.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:41.01,1:14:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since Israel always keeps her threatening promises,\Nbombs are now pouring down from her planes.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:48.01,1:14:53.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today's new homeless will spend the night\Nwith their relatives, friends or acquaintances in Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:53.05,1:15:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After yesterday's massacre in Jabalia, no one dares\Ntake shelter in the United Nations schools anymore.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:00.09,1:15:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a considerable number haven't gone anywhere,\Nas they have nowhere safe to go.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:07.02,1:15:11.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They shall be spending the night\Npraying to God that they'll be spared,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:11.03,1:15:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since no one on earth seems to take\Nany interest whatsoever in their existence.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:16.06,1:15:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The death toll at present is of 768 Palestinians,\Nwith 3,129 wounded, and 219 children dead.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:26.01,1:15:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The count of civilian victims on the Israeli side\Nis thankfully still only four.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:34.00,1:15:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Zeitoun, a neighbourhood East of Gaza City,\Nthe Red Cross ambulances...
Dialogue: 0,1:15:39.07,1:15:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...could only rush to the scene of a massacre\Nafter several hours,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:45.01,1:15:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with permission from the Israeli military leadership.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:49.01,1:15:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they finally got there,\Nthey picked up 17 corpses and 10 injured,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:54.01,1:15:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all belonging to the Al-Samouni family.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:58.09,1:16:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a perfect execution:
Dialogue: 0,1:16:00.08,1:16:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the tiny bodies of the children\Nit was possible to notice...
Dialogue: 0,1:16:04.05,1:16:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...bullet holes rather\Nthan wounds caused by shrapnel.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:10.01,1:16:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The last two nights\Nin the Gaza City hospitals were quieter than usual,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:15.04,1:16:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we assisted a number of injured\Nin the dozens rather than in the hundreds.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:19.05,1:16:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously after the massacre at the Al-Fakhura school...
Dialogue: 0,1:16:23.02,1:16:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...the Israeli Army\Nsurpassed the daily total of civilian casualties...
Dialogue: 0,1:16:28.00,1:16:34.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...as an offering to its bloodthirsty government\Nin view of the imminent elections.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:34.01,1:16:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a feeling though that the morgues\Nwill be filled to bursting point again tonight.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:41.02,1:16:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With our sirens screaming, we continue to rush\Npregnant women into hospital as they give birth prematurely.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:48.08,1:16:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's as if nature\Nand the conservation instinct...
Dialogue: 0,1:16:53.04,1:17:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...were inducing these brave mothers\Nto pre-empt the due-date of these newly-born...
Dialogue: 0,1:17:00.02,1:17:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...making up for the growing number of the dead.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:03.03,1:17:07.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first cries of the newborn,\Nwhen they survive...
Dialogue: 0,1:17:07.07,1:17:12.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...can, only for a moment,\Nrise over the rumbling of the bombs.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:12.05,1:17:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leila, a colleague at the ISM, asked our neighbours'children to write\Nsome of their impressions of the atrocious tragedy we're enduring.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:22.09,1:17:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here are some extracts of their words,\Nthe horrors of war seen through the pure and innocent...
Dialogue: 0,1:17:29.04,1:17:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...gaze of Gaza's children:
Dialogue: 0,1:17:32.02,1:17:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suzanne, aged 15:
Dialogue: 0,1:17:34.07,1:17:39.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Life in Gaza is very difficult.\NActually we can't describe everything.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:39.03,1:17:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't sleep,\Nwe can't go to school and study.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:43.01,1:17:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We feel a lot of feelings,\Nsometimes we feel afraid...
Dialogue: 0,1:17:47.00,1:17:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and worry because the planes and the ships,\Nthey hit [us] twenty-four hours [a day].
Dialogue: 0,1:17:52.08,1:18:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes we feel bored because there is no electricity\Nduring the day, and in the night, it comes for just four hours...
Dialogue: 0,1:18:01.04,1:18:05.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and when it comes\Nwe are watching the news on TV.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:05.01,1:18:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we see kids and women who are injured and dead.\NSo we live under siege and war."
Dialogue: 0,1:18:11.04,1:18:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fatma, aged 13:
Dialogue: 0,1:18:14.03,1:18:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It was the hardest week in our lives.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:17.00,1:18:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first day we were to school,\Nhaving the final exam of the first term...
Dialogue: 0,1:18:21.06,1:18:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...then the explosions started,\Nand many students were killed and injured...
Dialogue: 0,1:18:27.01,1:18:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and the others surely\Nlost a relative or a neighbour.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:32.04,1:18:35.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no electricity, no food, no bread.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:35.04,1:18:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What can we do?\NIt's the Israelis!
Dialogue: 0,1:18:38.09,1:18:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the people in the world celebrated the New Year;\Nwe also celebrate but in a different way."
Dialogue: 0,1:18:45.07,1:18:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sara, aged 11:
Dialogue: 0,1:18:49.01,1:18:56.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Gaza is living under a siege, like a big jail:\Nno water, no electricity.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:56.06,1:19:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People feel afraid, [they] don't sleep at night,\Nand every day more people are killed.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:01.01,1:19:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until now, more than 700 are killed\Nand more than 3,000 injured.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:08.09,1:19:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And students had their final first-term exams,\Nso Israel hit the Ministry of Education, and a lot of ministries.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:18.02,1:19:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day people are asking,\N"When will it end?",
Dialogue: 0,1:19:21.07,1:19:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are waiting for more ships\Nwith activists like Vittorio and Leila."
Dialogue: 0,1:19:27.04,1:19:30.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Darween, aged 8:
Dialogue: 0,1:19:30.03,1:19:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I am a Palestinian kid:\NI won't leave my country...
Dialogue: 0,1:19:35.02,1:19:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...so I will have lots of advantage,\Nbecause I won't leave my country...
Dialogue: 0,1:19:39.01,1:19:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and I hear a sound of rockets,\Nso I won't leave my country."
Dialogue: 0,1:19:45.00,1:19:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meriam is four.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:47.02,1:19:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her siblings asked her,\N"What do you feel when you hear the rockets?"
Dialogue: 0,1:19:51.07,1:19:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she said,\N"I'm scared!",
Dialogue: 0,1:19:54.07,1:20:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before running to take cover\Nbehind her father's legs.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:00.02,1:20:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sadly, Gaza has been shrouded\Nin obscurity these last 10 days.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:04.06,1:20:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can recharge my computer and phone\Nonly in the hospitals.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:08.09,1:20:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We watch TV with the doctors and paramedics\Nwhile waiting for an urgent call.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:15.04,1:20:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We listen to the rumblings in the distance,\Nand after a few minutes the Arab satellite networks...
Dialogue: 0,1:20:21.00,1:20:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...report exactly\Nwhere the explosions took place.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:25.03,1:20:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We often watch ourselves pull bodies out of the rubble,\Nas if having seen it all in the flesh weren't enough already.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:36.00,1:20:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last night I switched over to\Nan Israeli channel with the remote.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:40.08,1:20:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were showing a traditional music festival, complete\Nwith scantily-clad showgirls and firework displays at the end.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:48.06,1:20:53.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We went back to our horror,\Nnot on screen, but in the ambulances.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:53.07,1:21:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Israel has every right to laugh and sing\Neven while they're massacring their neighbours.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:01.08,1:21:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Palestinians only ask to die\Na different kind of death,
Dialogue: 0,1:21:07.08,1:21:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,say, of old age.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:13.00,1:21:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay Human
Dialogue: 0,1:21:45.05,1:21:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,9th January 2009
Dialogue: 0,1:21:50.05,1:21:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Killing Hippocrates
Dialogue: 0,1:21:54.01,1:21:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Gaza, a firing squad...
Dialogue: 0,1:21:59.02,1:22:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...put Hippocrates up against a wall,\Naimed and fired.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:06.04,1:22:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The absurd declarations\Nof an Israeli secret servicesí spokesman,
Dialogue: 0,1:22:13.10,1:22:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,according to which the army\Nwas given the green light to fire at ambulances...
Dialogue: 0,1:22:19.09,1:22:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...because they allegedly carried terrorists,
Dialogue: 0,1:22:27.00,1:22:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,, is an illustration of the value\Nthat Israel assigns to human life these days
Dialogue: 0,1:22:33.08,1:22:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the lives of their enemies, that is.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:38.07,1:22:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís worth revisiting...
Dialogue: 0,1:22:41.08,1:22:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...whatís stated in the Hippocratic Oath,
Dialogue: 0,1:22:45.01,1:22:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which every doctor swears...
Dialogue: 0,1:22:48.02,1:22:51.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...before practising their profession.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:51.01,1:22:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The following passages\Nare especially worthy of note:
Dialogue: 0,1:22:58.07,1:23:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I solemnly pledge myself\Nto consecrate my life to the service of humanity.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:09.00,1:23:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will practise my profession\Nwith conscience and dignity.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:18.00,1:23:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will cure all patients\Nwith the same diligence and commitment.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:31.00,1:23:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will not permit considerations of religion,\Nnationality, race,
Dialogue: 0,1:23:38.03,1:23:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,party politics, or social standing to intervene\Nbetween my duty and my patient.í
Dialogue: 0,1:23:44.00,1:23:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nine doctors and voluntary nurses\Nhave been killed since the start of the bombing campaign,
Dialogue: 0,1:23:52.03,1:23:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and about 10 ambulances\Nwere shot at by the Israeli artillery.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:58.00,1:24:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The survivors are quaking with fear,
Dialogue: 0,1:24:01.06,1:24:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but refuse to take a step back.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:04.00,1:24:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The crimson flashes of the ambulances...
Dialogue: 0,1:24:07.01,1:24:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...are the only bursts of light\Nin the dark streets of Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,1:24:14.06,1:24:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bar the flashes that precede an explosion.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:19.09,1:24:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Regarding these crimes, the last report comes\Nfrom Pierre Wettach, Head of the Red Cross in Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:25.05,1:24:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His ambulances had access to the spot of a massacre,\Nin Zeitoun (east of Gaza City)...
Dialogue: 0,1:24:34.00,1:24:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...only 24 hours after an Israeli attack.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:38.00,1:24:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rescue workers state...
Dialogue: 0,1:24:40.08,1:24:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that they found themselves\Nfacing a blood-curdling scenario.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:45.00,1:24:53.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"In one of the houses four small children\Nwere found near the body of their dead mother.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:53.05,1:24:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were too weak to stand on their feet.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:58.07,1:25:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We also found a grown man,\Nalso too weak to stand upright.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:07.01,1:25:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About 20 corpses were found\Nlying on the mattresses."
Dialogue: 0,1:25:13.01,1:25:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The witnesses to this umpteenth massacre\Ndescribe how the Israeli soldiers,
Dialogue: 0,1:25:21.09,1:25:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after arriving in the neighbourhood,
Dialogue: 0,1:25:24.06,1:25:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gathered the numerous members\Nof the Al-Samouni family into one building...
Dialogue: 0,1:25:31.01,1:25:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and then proceeded to bomb it repeatedly.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:38.01,1:25:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My ISM companions and I have been driving around\Nin the Red Crescent ambulances for days,
Dialogue: 0,1:25:45.00,1:25:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suffering many attacks.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:48.07,1:25:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our duty on the ambulances is to rescue the injured,\Nnot to carry guerrilla fighters.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:56.09,1:26:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we find someone lying in the street\Nin a pool of their own blood,
Dialogue: 0,1:26:02.06,1:26:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we donít have the time to check their papers\Nor ask them whether they support Hamas or Fatah.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:09.01,1:26:16.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the seriously injured canít talk,\Nmuch like the dead.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:16.07,1:26:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few days ago,
Dialogue: 0,1:26:19.02,1:26:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while picking up a badly-wounded patient,
Dialogue: 0,1:26:23.05,1:26:32.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another man with light injuries\Ntried to hop onto the ambulance.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:32.03,1:26:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We pushed him out,
Dialogue: 0,1:26:35.00,1:26:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to make it clear\Nto whoeverís watching from up above...
Dialogue: 0,1:26:39.06,1:26:45.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that we donít serve as a taxi\Nto carry members of the resistance around.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:45.10,1:26:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City,\Nseventeen-year-old Miriam was carried in,
Dialogue: 0,1:26:53.04,1:26:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in full-blown labour.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:55.07,1:27:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her father and sister-in-law, both dead,\Nhad passed through the hospital in the morning,
Dialogue: 0,1:27:05.07,1:27:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both victims of the indiscriminate bombing.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:12.02,1:27:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Miriam gave birth to a gorgeous baby during the night,
Dialogue: 0,1:27:16.03,1:27:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not aware of the fact...
Dialogue: 0,1:27:18.06,1:27:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that while she lay in the delivery room,
Dialogue: 0,1:27:22.03,1:27:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her young husband\Nhad arrived in the morgue one floor below her.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:30.05,1:27:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the end,
Dialogue: 0,1:27:32.01,1:27:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even the United Nations\Nhas started to see that...
Dialogue: 0,1:27:36.02,1:27:40.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...weíre all in the same boat here in Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:40.03,1:27:44.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Weíre all walking targets for the snipers.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:44.06,1:27:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The death toll is now at 789 dead,
Dialogue: 0,1:27:50.06,1:27:53.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3,300 wounded
Dialogue: 0,1:27:53.07,1:27:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with 410 in critical condition,
Dialogue: 0,1:27:58.00,1:28:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,230 children killed and countless missing.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:03.09,1:28:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The death toll on the Israeli side...
Dialogue: 0,1:28:07.06,1:28:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...has thankfully remained at four.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:12.04,1:28:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Ging, Director of UNRWAís (United Nations Relief\Nand Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)...
Dialogue: 0,1:28:19.09,1:28:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...Field Operations in Gaza,\Nhas related the UN announcement that theyíll suspend...
Dialogue: 0,1:28:23.09,1:28:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...their humanitarian activities in the Gaza Strip.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:28.06,1:28:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I bumped into Ging\Nat the Ramattan press office...
Dialogue: 0,1:28:33.00,1:28:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and saw him wagging his finger\Nwith disdain at Israel before the cameras.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:41.00,1:28:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The UN stopped its work in Gaza after\Ntwo of its operators were killed yesterday,
Dialogue: 0,1:28:48.05,1:28:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ironically during the three-hour ceasefire that Israel\Nhad announced and, as usual, had failed to stick to.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:58.09,1:29:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The civilians in Gaza have three hours a day\Nat their disposal in which to survive,
Dialogue: 0,1:29:08.01,1:29:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Israeli soldiers have the remaining 21...
Dialogue: 0,1:29:12.08,1:29:16.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...in which to try and exterminate them",
Dialogue: 0,1:29:16.07,1:29:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard Ging state, two steps away from me.
Dialogue: 0,1:29:22.03,1:29:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yasmine, the wife of one of the many journalists\Nwaiting in line at the Erez Pass, wrote to me from Jerusalem.
Dialogue: 0,1:29:29.01,1:29:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Israel wonít grant these journalists a pass to let them in\Nand film or describe the immense unnatural catastrophe
Dialogue: 0,1:29:41.01,1:29:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said:
Dialogue: 0,1:29:43.00,1:29:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The day before yesterday\NI went to have a look at Gaza from the outside.
Dialogue: 0,1:29:47.09,1:29:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The worldís journalists\Nare all huddled on a small sandy hill...
Dialogue: 0,1:29:53.04,1:29:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...a few kilometres from the border.
Dialogue: 0,1:29:57.02,1:30:01.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Innumerable cameras are pointed towards us.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:01.03,1:30:05.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Planes circle overhead,\Nyou can hear them but you canít see them.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:05.01,1:30:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Theyíre like hallucinations,
Dialogue: 0,1:30:09.07,1:30:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like something in your head until you see the black smoke\Nrising from the horizon, in Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:14.01,1:30:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The hill has also become\Na tourist site for Israelis in the area.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:21.00,1:30:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With their large binoculars and cameras,
Dialogue: 0,1:30:27.02,1:30:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they come and watch the bombings live."
Dialogue: 0,1:30:32.01,1:30:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While I write this piece of correspondence in a mad rush,
Dialogue: 0,1:30:39.02,1:30:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bomb has been dropped on to the building\Nnext to the one Iím in right now.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:44.00,1:30:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The windowpanes shake,\Nmy ears ache
Dialogue: 0,1:30:47.05,1:30:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I look out the window and see that the building holding\Nthe major Arabic media agencies has been struck.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:56.03,1:31:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís one of Gaza Cityís tallest buildings,
Dialogue: 0,1:31:00.00,1:31:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Al-Jawhara building.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:03.03,1:31:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A camera crew is permanently stationed on the roof,
Dialogue: 0,1:31:07.02,1:31:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I can now see them all waving their arms...
Dialogue: 0,1:31:09.10,1:31:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and asking for help\Nas theyíre covered by a black cloud of smoke.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:15.02,1:31:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paramedics and journalists,\Nthe most heroic occupations in this corner of the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:22.00,1:31:26.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yesterday\NI paid Tamim a visit at the Al-Shifa Hospital,
Dialogue: 0,1:31:26.09,1:31:31.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heís a journalist whoís survived an air raid.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:31.03,1:31:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He explained how\Nhe thinks that Israel is adopting the same,
Dialogue: 0,1:31:36.04,1:31:39.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identical terrorist techniques as Al-Qaeda:
Dialogue: 0,1:31:39.10,1:31:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bombing a building,
Dialogue: 0,1:31:42.00,1:31:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waiting for the journalists\Nand ambulances to rush in,
Dialogue: 0,1:31:45.00,1:31:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then dropping another bomb...
Dialogue: 0,1:31:48.00,1:31:51.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to finish the latter off as well.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:51.01,1:31:54.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his view thatís why...
Dialogue: 0,1:31:54.05,1:31:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...thereíve been so many casualties\Namong the journalists and paramedics.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:59.02,1:32:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As he said this, the nurses around his bed\Nall nodded in agreement.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:03.06,1:32:09.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Smilingly, Tamim showed me his two stubs for legs.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:09.05,1:32:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was happy\Nhe was still around to tell the story,
Dialogue: 0,1:32:15.01,1:32:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while his colleague, Mohammed,
Dialogue: 0,1:32:18.00,1:32:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had died with a camera\Nin his hand when the second explosion had proved fatal.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:24.01,1:32:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the meantime I asked about the bomb\Nthat had just been dropped on the building next door,
Dialogue: 0,1:32:30.10,1:32:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where two journalists, both Palestinian,
Dialogue: 0,1:32:35.06,1:32:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one from Libyan TV and the other from Dubai Television,\Nhave been injured.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:41.01,1:32:52.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a harsh new reminder that\Nthis massacre must in no way be described or recorded.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:52.09,1:32:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All thatís left for me to hope...
Dialogue: 0,1:32:55.01,1:33:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...is that among the Israel's military leaders,
Dialogue: 0,1:33:00.06,1:33:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no one reads Il Manifesto,
Dialogue: 0,1:33:03.02,1:33:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or habitually visits my blog.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:09.04,1:33:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:30.02,1:33:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,10th January 2009
Dialogue: 0,1:33:36.02,1:33:40.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Total Destruction: Work in Progress
Dialogue: 0,1:33:40.05,1:33:49.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some Palestinian families have handed us some leaflets\Nthat had fallen from the sky in the last few days,
Dialogue: 0,1:33:49.03,1:33:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,courtesy of the Israeli Air Force,\Nin lieu of the customary bombs.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:56.08,1:34:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first leaflet,\Ntranslated from the Arabic, reads:
Dialogue: 0,1:34:01.10,1:34:05.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To all the people living in this area.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:05.06,1:34:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Due to the terrorist acts\Nwith which the terrorists from your area are attacking Israel,
Dialogue: 0,1:34:14.00,1:34:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Israeli Army Forces\Nwere forced to take immediate action in your area.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:22.01,1:34:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We thus urge you, for your own safety,\Nto immediately evacuate the area.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:29.01,1:34:32.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Israeli Army.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:32.09,1:34:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In short, the Israelis\Nare sticking a "work in progress" at every door,
Dialogue: 0,1:34:41.03,1:34:46.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before razing whole neighbourhoods to their foundations,
Dialogue: 0,1:34:46.05,1:34:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and forever dashing hopes of a life\Nin the present or in the future.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:52.07,1:35:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apparently, those who havenít got anywhere\Nto flee to are consigned to be buried under tonnes of rubble.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:01.08,1:35:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A little while ago they had warned us\Nthey intended to throw more leaflets,
Dialogue: 0,1:35:08.01,1:35:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,threatening us\Nwith a "third phase of war of terror [that] is about to start".
Dialogue: 0,1:35:13.08,1:35:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Israeli military commanders are indeed polite,
Dialogue: 0,1:35:18.05,1:35:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they ask the population of Gaza to cooperate\Nbefore crushing them like insects.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:24.04,1:35:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the leaflets arenít persuasive enough,
Dialogue: 0,1:35:27.09,1:35:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,itís up to the Air Force\Nto knock gently on the roofs of Gazaís houses.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:34.08,1:35:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís a brand new tactic,\Nslightly less powerful bombs are dropped,
Dialogue: 0,1:35:43.04,1:35:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though powerful enough to tear the roofs clear off the houses,\N"gently" persuading their occupiers to evacuate them.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:54.08,1:36:05.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After two or three minutes the planes drift past again,\Nand nothing remains of the buildings.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:05.05,1:36:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where should the evacuees go?
Dialogue: 0,1:36:09.00,1:36:13.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are no safe shelters in the whole of the Strip,
Dialogue: 0,1:36:13.05,1:36:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and personally I fear for my own life more\Nwhen walking past a mosque or a school,
Dialogue: 0,1:36:20.07,1:36:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than when standing in front of any of the government buildings,\Nwhich are still standing intact.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:29.01,1:36:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last night, 20 metres from my home,
Dialogue: 0,1:36:32.08,1:36:36.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Israeli jet fighters tore down the fire station.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:36.05,1:36:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This morning, on the street running parallel to the port,\NI discovered some craters several metres deep,
Dialogue: 0,1:36:45.05,1:36:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if meteors had rained down from the sky,\Nas are often featured in sci-fi movies.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:56.00,1:37:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The difference here\Nis that the special effects are pretty damn painful.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:03.03,1:37:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Visiting the wards of Al-Shifa Hospital,\Ncrowded with injured patients awaiting treatment,
Dialogue: 0,1:37:08.08,1:37:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can bump into a doctor who doesnít look very Arab.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:12.04,1:37:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mads Gilbert is a Norwegian doctor\Nfrom the NGO Norwac.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:18.07,1:37:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gilbert, an anaesthetist, confirms our suspicion regarding\Nthe use of forbidden weapons by Israel on Gazaís civilians:
Dialogue: 0,1:37:27.07,1:37:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Many injured arrive with extreme amputations,\Nwith both their legs reduced to a pulp,
Dialogue: 0,1:37:35.01,1:37:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I suspect is an effect of Dime weapons."
Dialogue: 0,1:37:40.02,1:37:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(The Dime bomb\Nis an innovative explosive...
Dialogue: 0,1:37:44.08,1:37:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...made to strike specific targets\Nand cause as much damage as possible.)
Dialogue: 0,1:37:57.08,1:38:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is happening while Navi Pillay,\NUN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Dialogue: 0,1:38:05.00,1:38:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reports that "extremely serious violations\Npossibly constituting war crimes" are taking place.
Dialogue: 0,1:38:14.09,1:38:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The last instance of one such crime happened\Na few hours ago, east of Jabalia,
Dialogue: 0,1:38:21.08,1:38:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where a family,\Nat the point of evacuating their house,
Dialogue: 0,1:38:27.00,1:38:30.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was stocking up\Non some food supplies at a small shop.
Dialogue: 0,1:38:30.03,1:38:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it was promptly bombed, eight were killed,\Nand all members of the Abed Rabbu family,
Dialogue: 0,1:38:36.02,1:38:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in addition to two others, were left severely injured.
Dialogue: 0,1:38:39.07,1:38:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People I speak to in the street\Nare under the impression that Israel is biding its time,
Dialogue: 0,1:38:46.01,1:38:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even while the bombs are being dropped non-stop\Nand the land artillery is slowly advancing.
Dialogue: 0,1:38:52.00,1:39:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The soldiers have no problems in stocking up with "K-rations",\Nthe individual military food rations,
Dialogue: 0,1:39:01.07,1:39:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unlike many people in Gaza\Nwho can no longer get any bread.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:07.04,1:39:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bakers, having run out of flour, have resorted to mixing it\Nwith animal flour with which to make buns.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:20.04,1:39:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís week-old bread, green with mould.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:26.02,1:39:30.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You cook it over a small fire lit\Nwith a couple of pieces of wood...
Dialogue: 0,1:39:30.06,1:39:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and I can assure you that,\Neven then, itís not exactly a delicacy.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:38.07,1:39:50.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All over the net, Israel is uploading\Ndozens of films featuring birdís eye-view images,
Dialogue: 0,1:39:50.10,1:39:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allegedly showing how precise its bombings...
Dialogue: 0,1:39:55.00,1:40:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...against the "terrorists" are, or against hypothetical enemy\Nwarehouses stocking weapons and explosives.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:02.01,1:40:07.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dizzying count of civilian casualties\Nis enough to discredit these videos.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:07.03,1:40:17.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wonder how Israel\Ncan call itself civilized and democratic,
Dialogue: 0,1:40:17.03,1:40:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when its army, in trying to drive out and kill an enemy,
Dialogue: 0,1:40:20.07,1:40:30.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wonít hesitate to knock down an entire, crowded building,\Nburying dozens of innocent victims alive in the process.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:30.01,1:40:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís as if the Italian army\Nhunting down a dangerous mafia criminal...
Dialogue: 0,1:40:37.07,1:40:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...started heavily bombing the centre of Palermo.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:43.01,1:40:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As sit here I writing this, there are 821 Palestinians dead,
Dialogue: 0,1:40:54.01,1:41:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,93 being women,\Nand 235 children.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:03.08,1:41:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Twelve paramedics were killed while fulfilling their duty\Nand three journalists died with cameras hanging round their necks.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:16.06,1:41:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A good 3,350 are among the injured,
Dialogue: 0,1:41:22.00,1:41:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with more than half being under 18 years of age.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:25.08,1:41:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights\Nbased in Jabalia, renowned for its reliability,
Dialogue: 0,1:41:32.01,1:41:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they make up 85% of the Palestinian civilian casualties\Nmassacred in the last two weeks.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:41.02,1:41:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The death toll on the Israeli side\Nhas thankfully remained at four.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:48.00,1:41:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the United Nations\Ncannot protect the Palestinian civilian population...
Dialogue: 0,1:41:53.00,1:41:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...from the massive Israeli violations\Nof their own international humanitarian obligations,
Dialogue: 0,1:41:58.08,1:42:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my friends from the Free Gaza Movement will give it a shot,\Nready as they are to sail to Gaza in a few days.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:10.00,1:42:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Among them are doctors,\Nnurses and human rights activists,
Dialogue: 0,1:42:15.06,1:42:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who consider it their personal moral duty to do whatever\Nis humanly possible to provide some measure of protection.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:25.04,1:42:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had already tried to get here\Non the 31st December, on board the Dignity.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:33.07,1:42:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the Israeli Navy had rammed our boat\Nin international waters,
Dialogue: 0,1:42:38.00,1:42:47.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to sink it,\Nand had subsequently spoken of "an accident".
Dialogue: 0,1:42:47.06,1:42:54.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will wait for my friends with their load of humanitarian aid\Namong the ruins of whatís left of the port.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:54.09,1:43:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hereís to hoping that no more "accidents"\Nwill occur off the coast this time.
Dialogue: 0,1:43:02.00,1:43:12.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second leaflet dropped from planes\Nthat weíve translated is a scream:
Dialogue: 0,1:43:12.07,1:43:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Citizens of Gaza,\Ntake responsibility for your destiny!
Dialogue: 0,1:43:18.09,1:43:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Gaza the terrorists and those who launch rockets against Israel\Nrepresent a threat to your lives...
Dialogue: 0,1:43:24.09,1:43:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and to those of your families.
Dialogue: 0,1:43:27.08,1:43:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you wish to help your families\Nand brothers in Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,1:43:32.01,1:43:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all youíll have to do is call the number below\Nand give us information...
Dialogue: 0,1:43:39.01,1:43:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...on the whereabouts\Nof those responsible for launching rockets.
Dialogue: 0,1:43:43.00,1:43:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The terrorist militia has turned you\Ninto the first victims of their actions.
Dialogue: 0,1:43:48.01,1:43:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Avoiding more atrocities being committed\Nis now your responsibility!
Dialogue: 0,1:43:55.02,1:44:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Donít hesitate! Complete discretion is guaranteed.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:00.00,1:44:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can contact us at the following number...
Dialogue: 0,1:44:03.00,1:44:07.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Otherwise write to us at the following email,
Dialogue: 0,1:44:07.07,1:44:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,giving us any information\Nyou may have on terrorist activities.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:15.02,1:44:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many write to me from Italy, filled with frustration at not being\Nable to do anything against the genocide currently taking place.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:27.04,1:44:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would urge you to continue showing your indignation\Nand supporting human rights.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:34.04,1:44:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you then have five minutes to spare\Nand a phone card,
Dialogue: 0,1:44:39.00,1:44:48.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the details contained in the last leaflet\Ncould come in useful in communicating your disdain...
Dialogue: 0,1:44:48.10,1:44:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to those who cynically gamble\Nwith the lives of a million-and-a-half people via air, sea and land.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:59.03,1:45:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never would a phone card have been better spent.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:05.03,1:45:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those 235 massacred children are asking for it.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:15.01,1:45:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:47.00,1:45:51.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,13th January 2009
Dialogue: 0,1:45:51.05,1:45:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Vultures and Bounty Hunters
Dialogue: 0,1:45:54.08,1:45:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We still try to create routes of salvation via the sea,
Dialogue: 0,1:45:59.01,1:46:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make a breakthrough into this tormented land,\Nnow confiscated and imprisoned,
Dialogue: 0,1:46:06.03,1:46:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every inch of it raped and reduced to a cemetery\Nfor corpses that are being denied a peaceful repose.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:14.04,1:46:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For a few days now,
Dialogue: 0,1:46:16.01,1:46:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even funerals have become the targets\Nof the Israeli Air Force,
Dialogue: 0,1:46:20.09,1:46:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if murdered Palestinians\Ndeserve additional punishment in death as well.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:27.07,1:46:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If a humanitarian passage\Nis struggling to make its way...
Dialogue: 0,1:46:32.04,1:46:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and come in aid of a people at the end of their tether,
Dialogue: 0,1:46:36.04,1:46:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Spirit of Humanity,
Dialogue: 0,1:46:38.00,1:46:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of our Free Gaza Movement boats,\Nwill try to be there for them.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:44.04,1:46:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sailed from Larnaca, Cyprus, today
Dialogue: 0,1:46:47.01,1:46:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and will bring tonnes of medicine to Gazaís port,
Dialogue: 0,1:46:51.10,1:46:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in addition to about 40 doctors, nurses, journalists,
Dialogue: 0,1:46:57.00,1:47:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,European parliamentarians, and human rights activists\Nrepresenting 17 different nations in all.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:05.02,1:47:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human beings, like myself,
Dialogue: 0,1:47:08.00,1:47:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like many who vent their indignation,
Dialogue: 0,1:47:10.08,1:47:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are ready to risk their lives...
Dialogue: 0,1:47:13.04,1:47:16.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...rather than lounge passively in their living rooms,
Dialogue: 0,1:47:16.09,1:47:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,watching news bulletins...
Dialogue: 0,1:47:18.01,1:47:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that reveal only a tiny fraction\Nof what the massacre being inflicted upon us is doing here.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:27.04,1:47:30.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the 29th December,
Dialogue: 0,1:47:30.06,1:47:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my friends gave it a shot with Dignity:
Dialogue: 0,1:47:35.00,1:47:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they were attacked by the Israeli Navy.\NIt tried to sink them.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:39.08,1:47:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had to send out an SOS and fled to Lebanon...
Dialogue: 0,1:47:44.03,1:47:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...with engine failure and a leak in their hull.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:48.06,1:47:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On that occasion it was only by pure chance\Nthat no one was badly hurt,
Dialogue: 0,1:47:53.01,1:47:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we hope...
Dialogue: 0,1:47:54.08,1:48:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...human rights as well as the lives of the activists\Nwill be spared tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:01.01,1:48:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are terrifying catastrophes in this world,\Nsuch as earthquakes and hurricanes,
Dialogue: 0,1:48:06.09,1:48:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inevitable natural phenomena.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:09.07,1:48:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Gaza endures\Nan unnatural humanitarian catastrophe...
Dialogue: 0,1:48:15.02,1:48:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...being perpetuated by Israel,
Dialogue: 0,1:48:18.01,1:48:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,damaging a people long reduced\Nto abject poverty and submission.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:23.06,1:48:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gazans are a desperate people\Nwithout bread or milk to feed their children.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:29.05,1:48:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They no longer shed any tears when mourning,
Dialogue: 0,1:48:33.00,1:48:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as their eyes are also on a strictly imposed diet.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:37.03,1:48:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The entire world cannot ignore this tragedy and,
Dialogue: 0,1:48:40.01,1:48:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they continue to do so,\Nwe donít want any part of it.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:45.07,1:48:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day we invoke someone above us\Nto stop the genocide,
Dialogue: 0,1:48:50.05,1:48:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but for tomorrow...
Dialogue: 0,1:48:52.01,1:48:56.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...all we ask is for our small boat to land in Gaza...
Dialogue: 0,1:48:56.05,1:49:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...with its cargo of compassion and empathy.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:00.07,1:49:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May the Palestinians also\Nreceive the same rights that Israelis,
Dialogue: 0,1:49:05.08,1:49:10.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or any other people on earth enjoy.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:10.05,1:49:13.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sea can be an anchor of hope,
Dialogue: 0,1:49:13.02,1:49:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a scenario of destruction.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:16.01,1:49:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to the Maían Press Agency, with Reuters\Nechoing their statement,
Dialogue: 0,1:49:22.08,1:49:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the United States are about to ship\N300 tonnes of weapons to Israel...
Dialogue: 0,1:49:28.01,1:49:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...via cargo ships sailing from Greece.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:31.08,1:49:36.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Weapons and enormous amounts\Nof explosives and fuses,
Dialogue: 0,1:49:36.07,1:49:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all thatís needed...
Dialogue: 0,1:49:38.00,1:49:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to raze thousands of houses to their foundations.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:43.04,1:49:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are 120,000 homeless displaced\Nfrom Gaza to Jabalia already.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:50.00,1:49:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But most, including many of my friends,
Dialogue: 0,1:49:53.03,1:49:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,havenít budged and have nowhere to flee.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:56.09,1:50:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Journalists, doctors and gravediggers:
Dialogue: 0,1:50:00.01,1:50:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for 16 days non-stop now\Nthese have been the busiest professionals in Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:08.07,1:50:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The circling vultures in follow in the wake\Nof the bomber planes stir up more hatred among the Palestinians,
Dialogue: 0,1:50:17.06,1:50:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially towards those\Nseated where the late lamented Yasser Arafat...
Dialogue: 0,1:50:24.01,1:50:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...(1929-2004), the former Chairman\Nof the Palestinian Liberation Organization, used to sit.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:33.08,1:50:41.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They now itch to come\Nand take over the throne towering over Gazaís ashes.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:41.09,1:50:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The death toll is now at 923,
Dialogue: 0,1:50:45.05,1:50:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with 4,150 wounded,
Dialogue: 0,1:50:48.08,1:50:55.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including 255 horrendously butchered\NPalestinian children.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:55.09,1:51:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The number of dead on the Israeli side\Nhas thankfully stayed at four.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:01.07,1:51:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rumour has it that Ehud Olmert,\Nthe Israeli Prime Minister, had told his side...
Dialogue: 0,1:51:10.00,1:51:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that hitting a death toll of 1,000 civilians marked the limit\Nafter which this brutal attack and infanticide would be halted.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:21.06,1:51:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís a bit like what happens\Nat the Vucciria markets in Palermo,
Dialogue: 0,1:51:27.03,1:51:32.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where quarters of beef\Nare hung up to drip blood out in the open,
Dialogue: 0,1:51:32.05,1:51:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you haggle for the meat,\Nso much per kilo.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:37.01,1:51:49.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Few Palestinians now miss tuning in for Ismail Haniyehís\Nappearances on the small screen here in the Gaza Strip.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:49.03,1:51:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You canít speak of a ceasefire\Nwithout simultaneously establishing an end to the siege.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:56.08,1:52:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Continuing to keep Gaza under siege\Nnow that itís been reduced to a heap of rubble,
Dialogue: 0,1:52:03.01,1:52:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not allowing provisions and medicine to come through,
Dialogue: 0,1:52:06.07,1:52:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,preventing the sick and injured from getting out,
Dialogue: 0,1:52:09.08,1:52:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is equivalent to condemning them\Nto more prolonged agony.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:14.08,1:52:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These in brief were the words spoken by Hamasís leader,
Dialogue: 0,1:52:20.08,1:52:30.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spoken from an underground bunker from God knows where.\NThese words find an echo in Gazan public opinion.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:30.07,1:52:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was the speech of a leader\Nwho could have fled and taken refuge elsewhere.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:36.10,1:52:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the contrary, he decided to risk a bomb\Nbeing dropped on his head like everyone else.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:44.00,1:52:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was just interrupted, while typing this piece,
Dialogue: 0,1:52:48.09,1:52:52.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the usual intimidating phone call...
Dialogue: 0,1:52:52.05,1:52:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...ordering us to evacuate the building\Nbefore a bombing.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:56.08,1:53:03.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iím currently in the building\Nwhere the main international media agencies operate,
Dialogue: 0,1:53:03.07,1:53:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these being, among others,\NAl-Jazeera, Ramattan and Reuters.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:10.04,1:53:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were forced to unplug our PCs,\Nrush downstairs and crowd the street,
Dialogue: 0,1:53:17.01,1:53:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we kept our eyes glued to the sky,\Ntrying to pick out...
Dialogue: 0,1:53:21.07,1:53:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...where the destructive thunder\Nwould strike from this time.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:26.01,1:53:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There wonít be any cameras or reporters\Naround to document the civilian massacre tonight,
Dialogue: 0,1:53:33.04,1:53:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we suspect that Gazaís innocent casualties\Nwill be more numerous than usual.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:40.08,1:53:46.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Still standing in the street,\NI stared at Alberto, winking at him.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:46.06,1:53:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He came up closer and, whispering,
Dialogue: 0,1:53:50.04,1:53:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked him whether he thought it plausible that the threatening\Nphone call had been made especially for the two of us,
Dialogue: 0,1:53:58.02,1:54:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the discovery of the American website...
Dialogue: 0,1:54:01.09,1:54:05.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...singling us out as targets:
Dialogue: 0,1:54:05.01,1:54:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ALERT THE IDF MILITARY TO TARGET ISM
Dialogue: 0,1:54:10.01,1:54:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number to call if you can pinpoint the locations of Hamas\Nwith their ISM members.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:17.09,1:54:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the US call,
Dialogue: 0,1:54:20.07,1:54:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...011-972-2-5839749.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:28.02,1:54:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From other countries drop the 011.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:31.10,1:54:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help us neutralize the ISM,
Dialogue: 0,1:54:35.08,1:54:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now definitely a part of Hamas\Nsince the war has begun.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:40.08,1:54:46.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,#1 ISM TARGET FOR THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE\NAND IDF GROUND TROOPS:
Dialogue: 0,1:54:46.05,1:54:54.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,VITTORIO ARRIGONI (PICTURED BELOW)\NIS CURRENTLY IN GAZA ASSISTING HAMAS
Dialogue: 0,1:54:54.09,1:54:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is copied from "stoptheism.com".
Dialogue: 0,1:54:59.08,1:55:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't bother to visit this website...
Dialogue: 0,1:55:02.04,1:55:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...or provide a link to it from your own websites.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:06.07,1:55:13.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís a sociological case\Nto be passed on to future generations for study.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:13.05,1:55:16.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On closer analysis of the present,
Dialogue: 0,1:55:16.09,1:55:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the future will pronounce its sentence without appeal:
Dialogue: 0,1:55:21.01,1:55:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how hatred was the purest of all feelings.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:26.02,1:55:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spite against anything\Nthatís different could fuel whole armies,
Dialogue: 0,1:55:32.04,1:55:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,becoming the feeling\Nthat brings masses of people together.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:37.01,1:55:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thereís no need for my enemies...
Dialogue: 0,1:55:41.00,1:55:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and those who wish for my martyrdom\Nto dial that number.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:46.01,1:55:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Israeli Army\Nknows exactly where to find me tonight,
Dialogue: 0,1:55:50.03,1:55:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the Al-Quds Hospital ambulances in Gaza City.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:55.00,1:55:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:57.09,1:56:39.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:39.03,1:56:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,14th January 2009
Dialogue: 0,1:56:42.06,1:56:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The children of a lesser God.They continue to atone\Nfor the spite passed on from one generation to the next,
Dialogue: 0,1:56:48.05,1:56:51.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through no fault of their own.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:51.05,1:56:57.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The soldiers bearing the Star of David are perfectly at ease\Nin their roles as so many contemporary Herods,
Dialogue: 0,1:56:57.03,1:57:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with 253 massacred Palestinian children so far.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:02.02,1:57:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An endless horror,
Dialogue: 0,1:57:04.01,1:57:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for which no soldier, no Israeli army officer,
Dialogue: 0,1:57:07.01,1:57:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor the Israeli government\Nwill ever be put in front of its responsabilities of war criminal.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:15.01,1:57:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If these innocent victims are spared for a few hours,
Dialogue: 0,1:57:18.09,1:57:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it might not necessarily be so for the buildings\Nand courtyards providing a backdrop for their games,
Dialogue: 0,1:57:21.08,1:57:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dreams and ambitions, their fantasies of growing up.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:24.10,1:57:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The places filling the void left by\Ntheir deceased fathers and mothers,
Dialogue: 0,1:57:29.00,1:57:33.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is, orphanages, have become a favourite nesting place\Nfor a species of Israeli mechanical bird.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:33.09,1:57:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís there that the fighter\Nplanes go and lay their bombs.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:37.10,1:57:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My fellow ISM volunteers in Rafah\Nhave written to me, saying:
Dialogue: 0,1:57:41.06,1:57:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On Sunday, 11th January, at about 3.00am,
Dialogue: 0,1:57:45.09,1:57:51.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the F16s bombed the orphanage\Nof the Dar al-Fadila Association,
Dialogue: 0,1:57:51.01,1:57:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which included a school, a college,\Na computer centre...
Dialogue: 0,1:57:55.00,1:58:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...a mosque in Taha Hussein Street,\Nin the Kherbat al-Adas neighbourhood, north-east of Rafah.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:02.04,1:58:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parts of the buildings were severely damaged.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:08.08,1:58:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The school assisted 500 orphaned children.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:13.01,1:58:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This very personal Israeli jihad\Nagainst Islamís sacred places along the Strip...
Dialogue: 0,1:58:19.00,1:58:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...is still under way as well, with blessings from the international\Ncommunityís lack of anything resembling a protest.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:23.05,1:58:25.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Including the Kherbat al-Adas Mosque,
Dialogue: 0,1:58:25.09,1:58:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,20 Muslim places of worship\Nhave been razed to the ground up till now.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:29.05,1:58:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thankfully, no Qassam "rocket"\Nhas as yet even brushed the walls of a synagogue.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:34.02,1:58:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Otherwise, weíre certain that weíd have heard rightful\Ncries of disdain from every corner of the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:41.02,1:58:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God must be paying a tax\Nfor receiving prayers from the Palestinians.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:46.01,1:58:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Out of almost 950 victims, 85% are civilians.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:51.06,1:58:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The infernal Israeli death machine is slowly advancing,\Ntaking over the whole of Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,1:58:58.01,1:59:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knocking down houses, schools, universities, hospitals,
Dialogue: 0,1:59:02.00,1:59:08.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without any tangible sign from the international community\Nof a will to boycott these actions.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:08.10,1:59:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís now our turn,
Dialogue: 0,1:59:11.02,1:59:13.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as ordinary citizens without citizenship,
Dialogue: 0,1:59:13.05,1:59:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if not without the feeling of belonging\Nto the one and only community of people,
Dialogue: 0,1:59:18.00,1:59:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Human family.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:19.09,1:59:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's time we put a spoke in this this hellish contraption.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:25.00,1:59:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I recently met Doctor Haidar Eid,\Na Professor at Al-Quds University in Gaza City.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:30.08,1:59:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A leftist intellectual type, tough as nails\Nand simultaneously good-humoured, passionate and generous,
Dialogue: 0,1:59:36.01,1:59:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the likes of which is completely extinct in Italy today.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:38.01,1:59:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if they're still to be found their type is likely to be\Nimprisoned in some basement, removed from the collective memory.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:41.07,1:59:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís impossible to adapt their type to the bipartisan...
Dialogue: 0,1:59:44.05,1:59:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...trend whereby post-fascists and post-socialists\Nwalk arm in arm,
Dialogue: 0,1:59:48.03,1:59:54.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reciting in unison their refrain\Nto defend every single massacre Israel carries out.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:54.03,1:59:57.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Haidar also happens to be a spokesman for PACBI
Dialogue: 0,1:59:57.01,2:00:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(The Palestinian Campaign\Nfor the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel),
Dialogue: 0,2:00:01.02,2:00:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and BNC (The Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions\NCampaign National Committee),
Dialogue: 0,2:00:06.09,2:00:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with him\Ni discussed about the boycott.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:10.06,2:00:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,History is a teacher, but it has no students.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:13.00,2:00:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nelson Mandela or Mahatma Gandhi\Nare at the moment unable to hold remedial lessons.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:17.09,2:00:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thankfully, the history lesson offered by South Africaís example\Ncan show us the way towards forcing a racist and colonialist Israel...
Dialogue: 0,2:00:24.00,2:00:26.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...towards compromise.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:26.03,2:00:31.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Refraining from boycotting the regime of apartheid back\Nthen was a little like being an accomplice to it.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:31.05,2:00:33.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What has possibly changed today?
Dialogue: 0,2:00:33.05,2:00:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like myself, the vast majority of Palestinians donít think\Nthe answer to the Israeli occupation and the ongoing massacre...
Dialogue: 0,2:00:40.01,2:00:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...is suicide bombings,\Nëkamikazesí and ërocketsí against Sderot.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:44.05,2:00:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boycotting is peaceful and non-violent,
Dialogue: 0,2:00:47.03,2:00:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most humanly acceptable answer to a conflict so depraved\Nit has turned every gesture into something inhuman.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:54.02,2:00:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís the best weapon in our arsenal of non-violence,
Dialogue: 0,2:00:57.00,2:01:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Naomi Klein reminds us in the London Guardian.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:01.07,2:01:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Haidar even manages to look on the bright side\Ndespite the bloody pit weíre sinking into.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:06.09,2:01:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as the world felt the time had come to say "Enough!"\Nafter the Sharpeville massacre of 21st March 1960...
Dialogue: 0,2:01:12.02,2:01:21.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...when 78 black citizens were torn to pieces\Nby the will of a barbaric regime in South Africa,
Dialogue: 0,2:01:21.02,2:01:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the incomparable massacre of 1,000 Palestinian civilians\Ncould breathe life into an equally strong activist campaign...
Dialogue: 0,2:01:28.03,2:01:30.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to punish Israeli crimes.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:30.09,2:01:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Haidar also supports the idea of Israel and Palestine as a sole,
Dialogue: 0,2:01:35.01,2:01:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,secular, democratic, and inter-religious state:
Dialogue: 0,2:01:38.00,2:01:44.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he sees no other pragmatic way out of the conflict.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:44.07,2:01:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More intimately, he speaks to me of al-Nakba,\Nwhich he was spared from by a few years,
Dialogue: 0,2:01:48.06,2:01:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if it had been very much brought to life by the stories\Nhe had inherited from his family.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:52.07,2:01:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the child of a post-catastrophe,\Nhe speaks without mincing his words.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:56.01,2:01:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Nakba has been passed down to him as a nightmare...
Dialogue: 0,2:01:59.00,2:02:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that has fed into the collective unconscious\Nof thousands of Palestinians.
Dialogue: 0,2:02:03.01,2:02:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The nightmare has come to life again,\Nknocking on the rooftops on the 27th December 2008.
Dialogue: 0,2:02:08.01,2:02:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It still hasnít finished inflicting sleepless nights ever since.
Dialogue: 0,2:02:12.06,2:02:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Haidar encourages me to divulge all this,\Nso I jot down his appeal in my tattered notebook...
Dialogue: 0,2:02:16.01,2:02:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to no longer buy anything "made in Israel".
Dialogue: 0,2:02:22.01,2:02:28.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can pick out Israeli products\Non the shelves from their barcodes,
Dialogue: 0,2:02:28.05,2:02:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with 729 being the first three numbers.
Dialogue: 0,2:02:32.02,2:02:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To obtain the complete list of products\Nyou can access at www.boycottisraeligoods.org.
Dialogue: 0,2:02:38.04,2:02:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get hold of a list and stick it on your fridge door\Nfor safe keeping until your next shopping trip.
Dialogue: 0,2:02:46.00,2:02:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"if you buy just one glass of water\Nthat was imported from Israel,
Dialogue: 0,2:02:50.00,2:02:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you might be funding one of the bullets that might lodge itself\Ninto one of our childrenís bodies,í said Haidar.
Dialogue: 0,2:02:57.08,2:03:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The boycott movement\Nthat saw the light in Palestine in 2005...
Dialogue: 0,2:03:02.00,2:03:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...is now taking gigantic steps forward and is spreading\Namong millions of consumers around the world.
Dialogue: 0,2:03:07.04,2:03:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez,\Nwho expelled the Israeli Ambassador...
Dialogue: 0,2:03:11.05,2:03:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and stopped all relations\Nwith the state thatís currently strangling us,
Dialogue: 0,2:03:15.00,2:03:18.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an example for all of our politicians to emulate.
Dialogue: 0,2:03:18.10,2:03:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The South African leaders of the struggle against apartheid,\NNelson Mandela, Ronnie Kasrils and Desmond Tutu...
Dialogue: 0,2:03:25.00,2:03:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...have stated that Israelís oppression of Palestine\Nis far worse than South Africaís of the blacks ever was.
Dialogue: 0,2:03:31.06,2:03:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voices certainly most authoritative\Nthan italian politicians Frattini and Fassino.
Dialogue: 0,2:03:35.07,2:03:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some Israeli Jews have joined the boycotting campaign,
Dialogue: 0,2:03:39.04,2:03:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about 500 so far, among them Ilan PappÈ and Neta Golan,
Dialogue: 0,2:03:43.00,2:03:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the descendent of Holocaust survivors,\Nwho protests, ëNever again!í
Dialogue: 0,2:03:48.00,2:03:51.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai also urges us to act:
Dialogue: 0,2:03:51.09,2:03:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My hopes rest on Europeís support,
Dialogue: 0,2:03:54.00,2:03:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hoping that the descendents\Nof Voltaire and Rousseau might help Israel,
Dialogue: 0,2:03:57.09,2:04:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because Israel wonít end its occupation\Nuntil Europe says "Enough!"
Dialogue: 0,2:04:03.06,2:04:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only pressure from civilized and democratic nations\Ncan change the situation and bring us peace.
Dialogue: 0,2:04:10.10,2:04:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The current situation, with the army in charge,
Dialogue: 0,2:04:14.09,2:04:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cannot be changed from the inside.
Dialogue: 0,2:04:17.01,2:04:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the values that it represents,\NEurope must refuse to continue cooperating with Israel.
Dialogue: 0,2:04:23.06,2:04:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,729 must therefore become our Shoah:
Dialogue: 0,2:04:28.00,2:04:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never again!"
Dialogue: 0,2:04:31.00,2:05:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,2:05:06.00,2:05:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,15th January 2009
Dialogue: 0,2:05:09.01,2:05:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jabaliaís Circles of the Inferno
Dialogue: 0,2:05:13.01,2:05:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dante Alighieri could never have imagined circles as hellish\Nas the wards of the damned in Jabaliaís hospitals.
Dialogue: 0,2:05:23.02,2:05:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The laws of divine justice\Nare turned on their head around here:
Dialogue: 0,2:05:26.01,2:05:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more innocent the victim, the less likely\Nthat theyíll be spared martyrdom through shelling.
Dialogue: 0,2:05:33.04,2:05:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At Kamal Odwan and Al-Auda Hospitals,\Nthe ceramic tiles in the first aid units are always pristine.
Dialogue: 0,2:05:40.09,2:05:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cleaners are kept permanently busy\Nwiping away the blood dripping copiously...
Dialogue: 0,2:05:46.00,2:05:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...from the stretchers constantly being\Nbrought in carrying massacred bodies.
Dialogue: 0,2:05:52.03,2:06:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iyad Mutawwaq was walking in the street\Nwhen a bomb tore open a building not far from him.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:01.02,2:06:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He and other passers-by rushed over to try and help...
Dialogue: 0,2:06:05.02,2:06:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...when a second bomb\Nwas dropped on the same building.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:09.00,2:06:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It killed a father of nine,\Ntwo brothers...
Dialogue: 0,2:06:13.06,2:06:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and another passer-by\Nwho had rushed over to help.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:20.05,2:06:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same story\Ncould be told over ten or a hundred times.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:25.04,2:06:33.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The perfect terrorist technique is being carried\Nout immaculately by the Israeli Army.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:33.09,2:06:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You drop a bomb,\Nwait for the first-aiders,
Dialogue: 0,2:06:37.01,2:06:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then drop another bomb on the wounded\Nand the people rushing in to help.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:40.04,2:06:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Iyadís eyes, these were American bombs, but they also carry\Nthe stamp of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian dictator
Dialogue: 0,2:06:48.08,2:06:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who rivals Ehud Olmert here in Gaza\Nwhen it comes to stirring up resentment.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:55.00,2:07:03.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Behind Iyadís bed, an elderly man\Nwith both his arms in plasters is lying staring at the ceiling.
Dialogue: 0,2:07:03.05,2:07:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iím told heís lost everything,\Nhis family and his home.
Dialogue: 0,2:07:09.01,2:07:11.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Khaled stares at the cracks in the falling plaster,
Dialogue: 0,2:07:11.09,2:07:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if seeking an answer\Nfor the sheer destruction of his existence.
Dialogue: 0,2:07:18.05,2:07:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He worked in Israel for 25 years,\Nprior to the first Intifada.
Dialogue: 0,2:07:24.01,2:07:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In recognition,\NTel Aviv hasnít even granted him a pension,
Dialogue: 0,2:07:28.02,2:07:32.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only a series of missiles\Nfrom land and air onto his house.
Dialogue: 0,2:07:32.03,2:07:36.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He suffers from shrapnel wounds all over his body.
Dialogue: 0,2:07:36.05,2:07:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ask him where he plans to go after\Nheís been discharged from hospital.
Dialogue: 0,2:07:41.10,2:07:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says heíll join his family,\Nout on the streets.
Dialogue: 0,2:07:46.04,2:07:50.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not unlike Khaledís,\Nmany families donít know where to find shelter.
Dialogue: 0,2:07:50.09,2:07:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most fortunate were offered hospitality\Nby relatives and acquaintances,
Dialogue: 0,2:07:56.02,2:08:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but can you really say that 100 people crammed\Ninto two apartments having three rooms each is really a life?
Dialogue: 0,2:08:04.02,2:08:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two bombs were dropped onto Ahmed Jaberís home\Nand though his family initially fled,
Dialogue: 0,2:08:08.08,2:08:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it wasnít third time lucky for some of them.\NThe third explosion...
Dialogue: 0,2:08:12.03,2:08:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...buried seven of his relatives under the rubble,
Dialogue: 0,2:08:16.04,2:08:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including two children aged eight and nine,\Nplus his neighbourís children.
Dialogue: 0,2:08:21.01,2:08:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says: "They made us leap back in time,\Nback to 1948.
Dialogue: 0,2:08:28.04,2:08:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is their punishment\Nfor our attachment to our country.
Dialogue: 0,2:08:32.00,2:08:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can tear my arms and legs off from my body,\Nbut they wonít make me leave my land".
Dialogue: 0,2:08:40.01,2:08:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A doctor takes me aside and tells me that Ahmedís seven-year-old\Ndaughter was just brought in, or what was left of her,
Dialogue: 0,2:08:47.05,2:08:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inside a tiny cardboard box.
Dialogue: 0,2:08:52.01,2:08:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They donít have the heart to tell him\Nand make his already precarious health condition any worse.
Dialogue: 0,2:08:59.00,2:09:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the evening they took the phone away from Iyad as well,\Nto prevent him from receiving any more bad news.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:06.03,2:09:12.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A tank had hit his sisterís house,\Nbeheading her in the process.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:12.05,2:09:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the end, our Free Gaza Movement boat\Nnever got to the port in Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:17.02,2:09:21.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About 100 miles from their designated destination,\Nthey were intercepted in international waters...
Dialogue: 0,2:09:21.03,2:09:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...by four Israeli war ships,
Dialogue: 0,2:09:25.08,2:09:33.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poised to open fire and kill its cargo of doctors,\Nnurses and human rights activists.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:33.09,2:09:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one must dare to obstruct the massacre of civilians,\Nnow in full swing for the last three weeks.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:40.08,2:09:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,East of Jabalia, in front of the border,
Dialogue: 0,2:09:44.04,2:09:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eyewitnesses speak\Nof numerous decaying bodies in the streets.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:50.01,2:09:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their rotting flesh is being devoured by dogs.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:53.04,2:09:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are also hundreds of people\Nunable to get anywhere, many of whom are injured.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:59.01,2:10:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ambulances simply cannot get anywhere near,\Nwith trigger-happy snipers all over the place.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:06.10,2:10:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Palestinians are sick of languishing\Nin the midst of this general indifference,
Dialogue: 0,2:10:13.00,2:10:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many even accuse the International Red Cross\Nand the UN of not doing enough,
Dialogue: 0,2:10:17.09,2:10:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including not fulfilling their duties,\Nnor risking their lives to save hundreds.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:25.06,2:10:32.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We of the ISM will thus equip ourselves\Nwith some stretchers and proceed on foot to the areas
Dialogue: 0,2:10:32.05,2:10:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where humanity has surpassed all boundaries,\Neclipsing itself in the process.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:40.01,2:10:43.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heavy-bottomed settlers\Nsitting in the pristine lounges of armchair politics...
Dialogue: 0,2:10:43.09,2:10:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...harp on about military strategies\Nagainst Hamas.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:46.10,2:10:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meanwhile,\Nweíre being literally massacred out here.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:51.00,2:10:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They bomb hospitals,\Nand yet there are some...
Dialogue: 0,2:10:53.00,2:10:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...who still champion Israelís right to self-defence.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:57.00,2:11:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In any self-styled civilized country,
Dialogue: 0,2:11:02.00,2:11:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self-defence is proportionate to the attack.
Dialogue: 0,2:11:06.07,2:11:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In these 20 days weíve counted 1,075 dead Palestinians,\N85% of whom were civilians,
Dialogue: 0,2:11:13.00,2:11:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and over 5,000 injured,\Nof whom half were under 18 years of age.
Dialogue: 0,2:11:19.00,2:11:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,303 children were atrociously massacred.
Dialogue: 0,2:11:24.07,2:11:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thankfully, there were still only four victims\Non the Israeli side.
Dialogue: 0,2:11:31.00,2:11:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís equivalent to saying that for Israel,
Dialogue: 0,2:11:34.00,2:11:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,butchering at least 250 Palestinians is a justified blood-bath\Nin avenging each civilian victim on its own side.
Dialogue: 0,2:11:43.01,2:11:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can this lop-sided reaction not take one back...
Dialogue: 0,2:11:49.06,2:11:55.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to some of modern European historyís bleakest periods?
Dialogue: 0,2:11:55.09,2:12:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Letís get straight to the point:\Nare we seriously talking about self-defence?
Dialogue: 0,2:12:00.01,2:12:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For journalists who support the refrain\Nthat Hamas bears full responsibility for this genocide,
Dialogue: 0,2:12:05.02,2:12:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as for breaking\Nthe truce between Israel and Palestine,
Dialogue: 0,2:12:14.01,2:12:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like to remind them\Nof the UN's position on the matter.
Dialogue: 0,2:12:19.01,2:12:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Professor Richard Falk,\Na special rapporteur for human rights at the UN,
Dialogue: 0,2:12:25.00,2:12:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has clearly expressed his views:
Dialogue: 0,2:12:28.00,2:12:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was in fact Israel\Nthat broke the ceasefire in November,
Dialogue: 0,2:12:32.00,2:12:36.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by literally exterminating 17 Palestinians.
Dialogue: 0,2:12:36.06,2:12:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the same month,\Nno Israeli victims had been recorded,
Dialogue: 0,2:12:41.04,2:12:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,none in October\Nand none in the previous two months.
Dialogue: 0,2:12:46.02,2:12:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were also recently reminded of this\Nby Nobel Peace Prize winner and ex-US President Jimmy Carter.
Dialogue: 0,2:12:53.01,2:12:56.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It really is a crying shame\Nthat a journalist like Marco Travaglio,
Dialogue: 0,2:12:56.06,2:13:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whoís earned our admiration\Nas a proud upholder of freedom of the press,
Dialogue: 0,2:13:03.00,2:13:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is now sporting an IDF helmet...
Dialogue: 0,2:13:06.09,2:13:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and entertaining the masses on TV
Dialogue: 0,2:13:11.01,2:13:15.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while amusing himself\Nwith the pastime most in vogue at the moment:
Dialogue: 0,2:13:15.03,2:13:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,infant-shooting in Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,2:13:18.03,2:13:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I franticly tap at my keyboard\Nin the Ramattan Press Agency office,
Dialogue: 0,2:13:22.02,2:13:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the Palestinian reporters around me\Nare wearing bullet-proof vests and helmets.
Dialogue: 0,2:13:28.04,2:13:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They havenít come in straight\Nfrom driving a tank,
Dialogue: 0,2:13:32.01,2:13:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,theyíve simply been sitting in front of\Ntheir computers the whole time.
Dialogue: 0,2:13:36.00,2:13:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two floors above,\Nthe Reuters offices were recently struck by a rocket,
Dialogue: 0,2:13:41.06,2:13:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which seriously injured two.
Dialogue: 0,2:13:44.00,2:13:49.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Almost all the floors in the building are empty at the moment,\Nand only the most heroic of journalists are still around.
Dialogue: 0,2:13:49.10,2:13:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The story of this hell\Nmust somehow continue to be told.
Dialogue: 0,2:13:54.06,2:14:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet earlier this week, the Israeli Army\Nhad assured Reuters it wouldnít need to evacuate,
Dialogue: 0,2:14:00.00,2:14:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as they would be safe staying in their offices.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:03.00,2:14:08.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This morning the bombing of the United Nations building\Nalso caused many casualties,
Dialogue: 0,2:14:08.05,2:14:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,built, among others,\Nwith money from the Italian government.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:12.10,2:14:15.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Silvio Berlusconi, where are you?
Dialogue: 0,2:14:15.08,2:14:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were many dead and wounded.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:18.00,2:14:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Ging,\NDirector of UNRWAís Field Operations in Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,2:14:21.00,2:14:26.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spoke frankly\Nabout white phosphorous bombs.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:26.06,2:14:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Tal El-Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza City,\Na whole wing of Al-Quds Hospital is presently in flames.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:33.01,2:14:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leila, an ISM colleague is trapped inside,\Nalongside 40 doctors and nurses and about 100 patients.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:41.02,2:14:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She described\Nthese last dramatic hours to us by phone.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:46.01,2:14:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She described\Nthese last dramatic hours to us by phone.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:51.02,2:14:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A tank is stationed in front of the hospital.\NThere are snipers everywhere, ready to shoot at anything.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:57.04,2:15:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Destruction is all around.
Dialogue: 0,2:15:00.06,2:15:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At night, from their windows, they could observe\Na building going up in flames after having been shelled.
Dialogue: 0,2:15:06.00,2:15:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They heard the cries of whole families with children,
Dialogue: 0,2:15:10.03,2:15:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pleading for help.
Dialogue: 0,2:15:12.04,2:15:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hey were impotent to help,
Dialogue: 0,2:15:15.10,2:15:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,watching people being devoured by flames,\Nrunning out on to the street...
Dialogue: 0,2:15:20.05,2:15:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and then being reduced to ashes.
Dialogue: 0,2:15:23.02,2:15:30.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hell has switched places\Nand come to the centre of Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,2:15:30.07,2:15:33.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are the damned,
Dialogue: 0,2:15:33.10,2:15:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,designated as such by an inhuman hatred.
Dialogue: 0,2:15:36.08,2:16:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,2:16:22.00,2:16:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,16th January 2009
Dialogue: 0,2:16:24.09,2:16:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turning Geography on its Head
Dialogue: 0,2:16:27.00,2:16:33.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thereís a story of an elderly Palestinian\Nwho leaves his house in search of his next meal...
Dialogue: 0,2:16:33.03,2:16:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...during one of our rare morning ceasefires.
Dialogue: 0,2:16:36.02,2:16:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he is then unable to find his way back home.
Dialogue: 0,2:16:39.09,2:16:44.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shelling and bombing has radically changed Gazaís cityscape,
Dialogue: 0,2:16:44.01,2:16:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,warping its social structure with it as well.
Dialogue: 0,2:16:47.08,2:16:53.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hundreds of families are forced to flee\Nto different destinations all over the whole of the Strip,
Dialogue: 0,2:16:53.09,2:16:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hundreds who used to live alongside one another before...
Dialogue: 0,2:16:58.00,2:17:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...are now no longer even in touch.
Dialogue: 0,2:17:01.01,2:17:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In order to reach the Tal El-Hawa neighbourhood\Nin south-eastern Gaza City,
Dialogue: 0,2:17:06.02,2:17:09.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to walk across a lunar landscape.
Dialogue: 0,2:17:09.05,2:17:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leaving behind a trail of craters and mounds of rubble,
Dialogue: 0,2:17:12.09,2:17:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Israeli tanks yesterday have pulled away after a 48-hour siege.
Dialogue: 0,2:17:18.01,2:17:26.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ever-present in this desolate scenario\Nis the lingering, pestilent and unmistakable stench of death.
Dialogue: 0,2:17:26.07,2:17:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Struggling past what remains of entire buildings and houses,\Ncarcasses of burnt-out cars and ambulances,
Dialogue: 0,2:17:34.03,2:17:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started searching for Ahmedís house.
Dialogue: 0,2:17:37.02,2:17:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasnít an easy task\Nbecause of the radical transformation that whole neighbourhoods...
Dialogue: 0,2:17:43.03,2:17:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...razed to the ground and burnt to cinders\Nhad endured at the hands of the Israeli military.
Dialogue: 0,2:17:49.07,2:17:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remembered that Ahmed lived\Nat the end of a dirt road, impossible to recognize...
Dialogue: 0,2:17:54.10,2:18:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...now that I was struggling to tread\Nover one whole vast surface of debris...
Dialogue: 0,2:18:01.01,2:18:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had been chewed and spat out by the tanks.
Dialogue: 0,2:18:03.09,2:18:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If a satellite photo of Gaza\Nwere taken at the end of this massive genocidal attack,
Dialogue: 0,2:18:09.00,2:18:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would be difficult to convince anyone\Nthat the city in the photo was the same one pictured just 20 days earlier.
Dialogue: 0,2:18:18.08,2:18:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a chance to put my arms around Ahmed again,
Dialogue: 0,2:18:21.06,2:18:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was as if we hadnít seen one another in years...
Dialogue: 0,2:18:24.01,2:18:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...after a long journey from somewhere far off.
Dialogue: 0,2:18:28.01,2:18:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately,\Nour journey at the end of the night had no new dawn in sight,
Dialogue: 0,2:18:32.08,2:18:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except the one set alight by the hatred\Nof those ordering the generals and troops into action for this massacre.
Dialogue: 0,2:18:41.04,2:18:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My friend showed me\Nwhere an Israeli tank had stood for two days,
Dialogue: 0,2:18:45.01,2:18:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right in front of his garden.
Dialogue: 0,2:18:47.05,2:18:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During all that time his entire family\Nhad remained huddled underneath a stairwell,
Dialogue: 0,2:18:54.00,2:18:59.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,terrified that a shell shot\Nby a howitzer might wipe them out at any minute.
Dialogue: 0,2:18:59.09,2:19:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only last night,\NAhmed went against the orders of his apprehensive father...
Dialogue: 0,2:19:04.08,2:19:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and, dragging himself across the floor,\Ndared to look out the window at the hellish scenario all around.
Dialogue: 0,2:19:11.10,2:19:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He saw the tank moving about 30 metres away,
Dialogue: 0,2:19:14.07,2:19:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,smashing into the shutters of a supermarket\Nand opening a hole in it.
Dialogue: 0,2:19:20.00,2:19:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He then watched soldiers emerge from the armoured vehicle...
Dialogue: 0,2:19:23.06,2:19:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...who cheerfully wandered in to "do some shopping".
Dialogue: 0,2:19:27.09,2:19:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They filled the tank\Nto the point that they were struggling to get back in."
Dialogue: 0,2:19:31.09,2:19:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He then described the jubilant laughs, the mocking songs,
Dialogue: 0,2:19:37.06,2:19:40.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,providing a soundtrack to the explosions all night long:
Dialogue: 0,2:19:40.03,2:19:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ali, Mohammed, this is a message to your Allah Akbar!"
Dialogue: 0,2:19:46.00,2:19:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The resistance, which for some days\Nhad stoically succeeded in limiting the advance of the Israeli tanks,
Dialogue: 0,2:19:52.04,2:19:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fizzled out within a couple of hours.
Dialogue: 0,2:19:55.01,2:19:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kalashnikovs can only tickle plated tank armour,
Dialogue: 0,2:19:59.02,2:20:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while the shells of howitzers\Ncan blow up a house from wall to wall.
Dialogue: 0,2:20:03.01,2:20:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The residential neighbourhood of Abraj Towers,
Dialogue: 0,2:20:07.00,2:20:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mainly inhabited by the families of the teaching staff\Nfrom Al-Aqsa University and in large part sympathetic with Fatah,
Dialogue: 0,2:20:14.04,2:20:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certainly does not host any "Hamas terrorists".
Dialogue: 0,2:20:19.02,2:20:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same way that Iím aware of this,\NIím certain that itís also common knowledge in Tel Aviv.
Dialogue: 0,2:20:25.05,2:20:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It didnít seem to matter, though,\Nas the neighbourhood was reduced to a pile of rubble all the same.
Dialogue: 0,2:20:32.00,2:20:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next to the crumbled buildings stands the Al-Quds Hospital,\Nset on fire only yesterday.
Dialogue: 0,2:20:38.01,2:20:42.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My ISM companions have assisted the hospital staff...
Dialogue: 0,2:20:42.02,2:20:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in evacuating the 300 wounded there\Nto Gaza Cityís other hospital, Al-Shifa.
Dialogue: 0,2:20:49.01,2:20:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took them many hours,\Nespecially since moving seriously-injured patients...
Dialogue: 0,2:20:54.00,2:20:59.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...required the use of specialist ambulances\Nthat the Palestinians donít have.
Dialogue: 0,2:20:59.05,2:21:05.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We waited for the last evacuees with Dr Dagfinn Bjorklind\Nfrom the Norwegian NGO Norwac...
Dialogue: 0,2:21:05.01,2:21:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and asked some questions\Nof the nurses whoíd survived the Al-Quds fire.
Dialogue: 0,2:21:11.05,2:21:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These were blood-curdling stories,\Nbacked up by my companionsí own eye-witness accounts.
Dialogue: 0,2:21:18.00,2:21:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About 200 metres from the hospital lay about 30 bodies,
Dialogue: 0,2:21:24.01,2:21:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among them many women and children,\Nmany of whom were still alive.
Dialogue: 0,2:21:27.00,2:21:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They couldnít be rescued as the snipers\Non the roofs shot at anything that moved.
Dialogue: 0,2:21:32.01,2:21:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those bleeding bodies in the street were what was left of civilians\Nwhoíd escaped from their own homes...
Dialogue: 0,2:21:37.06,2:21:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...when theyíd caught fire after being shelled.
Dialogue: 0,2:21:40.04,2:21:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Israeli snipers hadnít hesitated to shoot them, one by one,
Dialogue: 0,2:21:45.02,2:21:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including the children,\Nonce they were framed by the viewfinders on their guns.
Dialogue: 0,2:21:51.06,2:21:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iíll confess that my motto "stay human"...
Dialogue: 0,2:21:55.01,2:22:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...has been direly tested in the last few days,\Nbut has survived intact nevertheless.
Dialogue: 0,2:22:02.01,2:22:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It pulled through,\Njust as the pride for and attachment to oneís native land,
Dialogue: 0,2:22:09.01,2:22:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expressed as identity and the right to self-rule,\Nhas enabled Gazaís people to carry on.
Dialogue: 0,2:22:15.02,2:22:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the university professors\Nto the people you meet in the street, doctors and nurses,
Dialogue: 0,2:22:20.00,2:22:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reporters, fishermen, farmers,
Dialogue: 0,2:22:23.09,2:22:30.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,men, women and teenagers,\Nthose whoíve lost everything and those who had nothing to lose,
Dialogue: 0,2:22:30.06,2:22:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all will use their last breath to say ëinshaíAllahí, for the sake...
Dialogue: 0,2:22:34.06,2:22:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...of the sincere conviction that their roots run so deep...
Dialogue: 0,2:22:40.06,2:22:44.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that no enemy bulldozer can tear them out.
Dialogue: 0,2:22:44.01,2:22:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While I write, a TV screen not far off is showing images\Nfrom the inside of the Al-Shifa Hospital.
Dialogue: 0,2:22:52.01,2:22:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men in tears cover their faces\Nas if to contain a flood of desperation.
Dialogue: 0,2:22:57.05,2:23:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At Shijaíiya, east of Gaza City,\Na shot from a tank just killed seven and wounded 25.
Dialogue: 0,2:23:04.01,2:23:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The casualties were all at a funeral commemorating a family member\Nwhoíd been killed the previous day.
Dialogue: 0,2:23:10.08,2:23:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yesterday the Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak\Napologized to the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon,
Dialogue: 0,2:23:17.00,2:23:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the artillery fire against the UN Agency...
Dialogue: 0,2:23:20.00,2:23:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...for Palestinian Refugees in Gaza City,
Dialogue: 0,2:23:22.08,2:23:28.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which had been built with the Italian governmentís money.\N(Berlusconi, where are you?)
Dialogue: 0,2:23:28.09,2:23:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It was a grave error", Barak said.
Dialogue: 0,2:23:31.07,2:23:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There wasnít the trace of an apology to the families\Nof the 357 Palestinian children killed up till now.
Dialogue: 0,2:23:38.05,2:23:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clearly, that was no error.
Dialogue: 0,2:23:41.03,2:23:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I listened a Red Cross paramedic tell me\Nthe story of their arrival on the scene of a massacre at Zeitoun.
Dialogue: 0,2:23:48.01,2:23:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A visibly malnourished child\Ncrouched in front of his motherís corpse,
Dialogue: 0,2:23:52.01,2:23:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,already in an advanced state of decay.
Dialogue: 0,2:23:54.08,2:24:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had taken care of that body for four days,\Nas if she were still alive.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:00.03,2:24:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had dried the blood from her face...
Dialogue: 0,2:24:02.05,2:24:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and dragging himself through the rubble\Nof what had been their home,
Dialogue: 0,2:24:05.09,2:24:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bringing her water, bread and tomatoes,\Nwhich heíd carefully placed next to her head.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:11.05,2:24:14.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He thought she was only sleeping.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:14.05,2:24:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Israeli snipers had prevented the Red Cross\Nfrom rushing in to bring aid,
Dialogue: 0,2:24:19.09,2:24:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they only managed to reach the scene of the massacre\Nseveral days later.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:25.03,2:24:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:58.03,2:25:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,17th January 2009
Dialogue: 0,2:25:01.09,2:25:04.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Love under the Bombs
Dialogue: 0,2:25:04.10,2:25:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Making love under the bombs.\NI remember a friend from Nablous once telling me...
Dialogue: 0,2:25:10.00,2:25:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...how difficult it was during the occupation\Nto reserve a moment of intimacy with his wife.
Dialogue: 0,2:25:16.06,2:25:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One evening, while they lay in a tender embrace,\Na bullet lodged itself into their headboard...
Dialogue: 0,2:25:22.08,2:25:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...inches away from their heads.
Dialogue: 0,2:25:25.05,2:25:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Gaza these days canoodling under the bombs\Nis out of the question,
Dialogue: 0,2:25:31.00,2:25:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the conjugal future of young Palestinian couples\Nis shaping up to be quite a challenge.
Dialogue: 0,2:25:38.02,2:25:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many have lost their homes\Nand are forced to live huddled together in the UNRWA schools,
Dialogue: 0,2:25:43.01,2:25:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or crammed inside a tiny apartment\Nwith as many as 20 people.
Dialogue: 0,2:25:49.00,2:25:55.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Tonight is Saturday and the young couples in Tel Aviv\Ngo out and have fun in the clubs or on the beach.
Dialogue: 0,2:25:55.09,2:26:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meanwhile, out here,\Nwe canít even make love in our own beds",
Dialogue: 0,2:26:00.00,2:26:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says Wissam,\Nwho got married in November.
Dialogue: 0,2:26:03.06,2:26:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We do have strobe lights though",
Dialogue: 0,2:26:07.01,2:26:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he says, pointing to a succession of flashes to the south,\Nthe evidence of bombing in full swing.
Dialogue: 0,2:26:14.00,2:26:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Young men like Wissam, himself aged nineteen, become fathers\Nvery early on in life and are already grandfathers by middle age,
Dialogue: 0,2:26:23.10,2:26:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being aware that ñ as they are in Palestine ñ\Nthis is the only form of survival available to them.
Dialogue: 0,2:26:33.01,2:26:40.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While thereís talk on the outside of a ceasefire,\Naccepted by Hamas but, as usual, rejected by Israel,
Dialogue: 0,2:26:40.07,2:26:44.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the last two days\Nthereís been an escalation of bombings...
Dialogue: 0,2:26:44.07,2:26:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...with a subsequent boost in civilian deaths
Dialogue: 0,2:26:47.09,2:26:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,60 only yesterday.
Dialogue: 0,2:26:50.06,2:26:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About 10 were killed\Noutside a mosque at the time of prayer.
Dialogue: 0,2:26:55.00,2:26:59.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What worries Palestinians\Nthe most is the call for a ceasefire...
Dialogue: 0,2:26:59.06,2:27:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...without reopening the border crossing points\Nat the same time.
Dialogue: 0,2:27:04.01,2:27:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even before materials\Nfor reconstruction are let in,
Dialogue: 0,2:27:08.01,2:27:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food supplies are urgently needed,
Dialogue: 0,2:27:10.01,2:27:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those whoíve been seriously injured\Nneed to get out.
Dialogue: 0,2:27:15.00,2:27:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hospitals are overwhelmed\Nfrom the overcrowding.
Dialogue: 0,2:27:18.09,2:27:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the entire Strip,\Nthey have a capacity of only 1,500 beds.
Dialogue: 0,2:27:24.04,2:27:30.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the number of the wounded\Npresently hovers at around 5,320
Dialogue: 0,2:27:30.01,2:27:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In addition, Palestinian public opinion mistrusts Egypt,\Nthe chosen intermediary for the talks,
Dialogue: 0,2:27:38.00,2:27:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose leadership\Nis notoriously obsequious to Israel.
Dialogue: 0,2:27:43.02,2:27:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why not have a European country mediate?
Dialogue: 0,2:27:46.03,2:27:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The role of Germany, a truly neutral country,
Dialogue: 0,2:27:49.04,2:27:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was decisive in the resolution of the conflict\Nbetween Israel and Hezbollah",
Dialogue: 0,2:27:54.01,2:27:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says a heavy-hearted Hamza,\Na university professor.
Dialogue: 0,2:27:59.01,2:28:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This morning another UN school in Beit Lahiya,
Dialogue: 0,2:28:03.03,2:28:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the northern Gaza Strip,\Nwas heavily hit by Israeli tanks.
Dialogue: 0,2:28:08.06,2:28:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were 14 injured and two little brothers,\NBilal and Mohammed Al-Ashqar, aged five and seven, were killed.
Dialogue: 0,2:28:17.01,2:28:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their mother survived, but lost both her legs.
Dialogue: 0,2:28:21.06,2:28:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along with 42,000 others,
Dialogue: 0,2:28:24.06,2:28:31.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they had sought shelter in the school\Nafter Israel had ordered them to evacuate their homes.
Dialogue: 0,2:28:31.03,2:28:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believed theyíd be safe there,\Njust like the 43 refugees
Dialogue: 0,2:28:35.08,2:28:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exterminated on the 6th January\Nin the UNRWA school massacre in Jabilia.
Dialogue: 0,2:28:42.00,2:28:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"These two children were without a doubt innocent,
Dialogue: 0,2:28:45.01,2:28:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as there isnít the shadow of a doubt\Nthat theyíre now dead",
Dialogue: 0,2:28:50.02,2:28:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,said John Ging,\Nthe Director of UNRWAís Field Operations in Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,2:28:55.06,2:29:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who tirelessly, albeit in vein,\Ncontinues to report the war crimes committed by the Israeli Army.
Dialogue: 0,2:29:04.01,2:29:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the Israeli generals are still busy preparing the "mission\Naccomplished" speech they intend to deliver to the world.
Dialogue: 0,2:29:13.00,2:29:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went back to whatís left\Nof Tal El-Hawa Hospital,
Dialogue: 0,2:29:17.04,2:29:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the part still standing after the building\Nwas set on fire by the Israelis.
Dialogue: 0,2:29:23.24,2:29:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has now started operating as a first aid unit\Nand logistical base for ambulances again.
Dialogue: 0,2:29:30.05,2:29:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They continue to extract casualties trapped for days\Nunder the rubble, found around its seriously-damaged buildings.
Dialogue: 0,2:29:39.07,2:29:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Al-Shifa Hospital hosts a child called Suhaib Suliman,
Dialogue: 0,2:29:45.02,2:29:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the only survivor in a family of 25,\Nall of whom are dead.
Dialogue: 0,2:29:51.02,2:29:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A young girl,\NHadil Samony, lost 11 relatives.
Dialogue: 0,2:29:56.09,2:30:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sheíll have no one to take care of her\Nafter being discharged from hospital.
Dialogue: 0,2:30:02.00,2:30:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Excuse me, but can someone please explain\Nwhat kind of mission this is?
Dialogue: 0,2:30:07.04,2:30:11.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís straight from collective punishment\Nto mass slaughter.
Dialogue: 0,2:30:11.56,2:30:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On his blog, a frustrated Arab\Ncalled Raja Chemayel sums it all up as follows:
Dialogue: 0,2:30:19.72,2:30:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Take a strip of land\Nabout 40 km long and only five km wide.
Dialogue: 0,2:30:25.01,2:30:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Call it Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,2:30:27.40,2:30:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then cram in 1.4 million inhabitants.
Dialogue: 0,2:30:31.24,2:30:37.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After that surround it by the sea to the west,\NEgypt with Mubarak in the south, Israel in the north,
Dialogue: 0,2:30:37.09,2:30:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and dub it "The land of terrorists".
Dialogue: 0,2:30:41.07,2:30:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After that,\Ndeclare war against it and invade it with 232 tanks,
Dialogue: 0,2:30:48.20,2:30:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,687 armoured vehicles,
Dialogue: 0,2:30:51.40,2:30:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,43 airports for fighter jets,
Dialogue: 0,2:30:54.60,2:30:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,105 war helicopters,
Dialogue: 0,2:30:57.08,2:31:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,221 units of ground artillery,
Dialogue: 0,2:31:01.07,2:31:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,349 mortars,\Nthree spy satellites,
Dialogue: 0,2:31:06.10,2:31:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,64 informers,\N12 spies and 8,000 assault troops.
Dialogue: 0,2:31:12.01,2:31:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then call all of this "Israel defending itself".
Dialogue: 0,2:31:16.01,2:31:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After that,\Nstop for a minute and state that
Dialogue: 0,2:31:20.52,2:31:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will "avoid hitting the civilian population"
Dialogue: 0,2:31:23.88,2:31:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and call yourself\Nthe only democracy in action.
Dialogue: 0,2:31:28.01,2:31:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whichever way you look at it,\Nonly a miracle could prevent you hitting those civilians,
Dialogue: 0,2:31:33.01,2:31:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or it could quite simply be a lie.\NBut once again, just call it "Israel defending itself".
Dialogue: 0,2:31:41.00,2:31:43.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now comes the question:
Dialogue: 0,2:31:43.05,2:31:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what would happen\Nif the invader turned out to be a liar?
Dialogue: 0,2:31:47.09,2:31:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What would happen to those unarmed civilians?
Dialogue: 0,2:31:51.00,2:31:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With such firepower,\Nhow could even Mother Theresa, or Mickey Mouse,
Dialogue: 0,2:31:56.20,2:32:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,avoid hitting all those civilians,\Nconsidering the ... situation?
Dialogue: 0,2:32:02.00,2:32:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Call it whatever you like,
Dialogue: 0,2:32:04.00,2:32:09.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but Israel knew damn well\Nthose unarmed people were out there.
Dialogue: 0,2:32:09.02,2:32:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was Israel itself that had put them there.
Dialogue: 0,2:32:12.03,2:32:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, go ahead and call it genocide.\NItís much more credible".
Dialogue: 0,2:32:18.02,2:32:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aside from a couple\Nof brutally-assassinated leaders,
Dialogue: 0,2:32:21.08,2:32:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hamas hasnít suffered from this attack,
Dialogue: 0,2:32:25.01,2:32:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and certainly hasnít lost its popularity.
Dialogue: 0,2:32:28.03,2:32:31.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If anything,\Ntheyíve gained some more.
Dialogue: 0,2:32:31.03,2:32:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once in a while it would be wise to remember\Nthat Hamas arenít a bunch of terrorists, nor a political party,
Dialogue: 0,2:32:37.01,2:32:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a movement,
Dialogue: 0,2:32:38.92,2:32:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as such theyíre impossible\Nto neutralize with storms of cluster bombs.
Dialogue: 0,2:32:45.00,2:32:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I ask Palestinians for their opinions\Non the real agenda behind this brutal massacre,
Dialogue: 0,2:32:51.24,2:32:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many say it has everything to do\Nwith the Israeli elections in February.
Dialogue: 0,2:32:56.04,2:32:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They made successful propaganda,\None vote at a time.
Dialogue: 0,2:32:58.10,2:33:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís always been like this\Non the eve of all elections".
Dialogue: 0,2:33:04.04,2:33:09.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just a month ago, Benjamin Netanyahu\Nwas forecast to be the sure winner,
Dialogue: 0,2:33:09.09,2:33:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but heís now expected to lose in competing\Nagainst the bloodthirsty vision of Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni.
Dialogue: 0,2:33:18.02,2:33:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Avigdor Lieberman is the leader of Yisrael Beitenu, a growing\Npolitical force, that had won 11 seats after the 2006 elections,
Dialogue: 0,2:33:28.03,2:33:31.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the polls show that they are gaining\Nin popularity even with statements like the following,
Dialogue: 0,2:33:31.05,2:33:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Gaza ought to be erased from the map\Nwith a nuclear bomb,
Dialogue: 0,2:33:36.00,2:33:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way the Americans\Ndid with Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
Dialogue: 0,2:33:41.00,2:33:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yesterday Israeli writer Abraham Yehoshua\Nstated to Haaretz:
Dialogue: 0,2:33:46.00,2:33:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We kill their children today\Nto save many more tomorrow."
Dialogue: 0,2:33:51.00,2:33:55.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iím afraid that now,\Nhis "Journey to the End of the Millennium"
Dialogue: 0,2:33:55.56,2:34:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has ended up on board a tank\Nin front of a hospital in flames.
Dialogue: 0,2:34:00.00,2:34:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voltaire invited us to respect all opinions.
Dialogue: 0,2:34:04.01,2:34:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would suggest\Nstopping the sowing of seeds of hatred,
Dialogue: 0,2:34:07.08,2:34:12.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sprinkling them with blood\Nand feeding them with terminal resentment.
Dialogue: 0,2:34:12.84,2:34:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,2:34:49.07,2:34:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,19th January 2009
Dialogue: 0,2:34:53.04,2:34:55.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Living and the Dead
Dialogue: 0,2:34:55.05,2:34:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Gaza,\Nonly the dead have seen the end of war.
Dialogue: 0,2:34:59.08,2:35:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the living, no ceasefire can make up\Nfor the daily battle of a constant quest for survival.
Dialogue: 0,2:35:05.07,2:35:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have no running water,\Ngas, electricity,
Dialogue: 0,2:35:08.01,2:35:12.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no bread and milk\Nwith which to feed their children.
Dialogue: 0,2:35:12.07,2:35:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thousands of people\Nhave lost their homes.
Dialogue: 0,2:35:14.76,2:35:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Humanitarian aid seeps\Nthrough the passes in drips and drabs,
Dialogue: 0,2:35:19.00,2:35:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you get the feeling that the benevolence...
Dialogue: 0,2:35:21.00,2:35:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...of the killersí accomplices is only temporary.
Dialogue: 0,2:35:24.05,2:35:29.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tomorrow, Ban Ki-Moon,\Nthe UNís Secretary General, will travel to Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,2:35:29.09,2:35:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and weíre pretty sure that John Ging, Director of NRWAís\NField Operations in Gaza, will have many stories to tell him...
Dialogue: 0,2:35:37.80,2:35:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...after Israel bombed two UN schools,
Dialogue: 0,2:35:40.09,2:35:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assassinated four of their workers,
Dialogue: 0,2:35:43.24,2:35:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bombed and destroyed\Nthe UNRWA Centre in Gaza City,
Dialogue: 0,2:35:48.00,2:35:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reducing tonnes of medicine\Nand food supplies destined for the civilian population...
Dialogue: 0,2:35:53.08,2:35:57.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to ashes in the process.
Dialogue: 0,2:35:57.01,2:36:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gazaís mountains of rubble\Ncontinue to spit out corpses back on to the surface.
Dialogue: 0,2:36:03.04,2:36:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yesterday in Jabalia, Tal El-Hawa in Gaza City\Nand Zeitoun, the Red Crescent paramedics,
Dialogue: 0,2:36:10.60,2:36:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with some help from the ISM volunteers,
Dialogue: 0,2:36:13.96,2:36:17.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have pulled out\Na total of 95 corpses from the ruins,
Dialogue: 0,2:36:17.05,2:36:22.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many of which\Nare in an advanced state of decay.
Dialogue: 0,2:36:22.28,2:36:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walking through the streets of the city
Dialogue: 0,2:36:24.06,2:36:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no longer feeling constantly terrified by the thought\Nof a bomb surgically aimed to decapitate me,
Dialogue: 0,2:36:31.08,2:36:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still tremble\Nat the sight of stray dogs gathering in a circle,
Dialogue: 0,2:36:36.02,2:36:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imagining what could reveal itself before my eyes...
Dialogue: 0,2:36:39.05,2:36:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...as constituting their meal.
Dialogue: 0,2:36:42.06,2:36:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Relieved-looking men go back to hanging out\Nin their mosques and cafÈs,
Dialogue: 0,2:36:47.24,2:36:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but their attitude of feigned normalcy\Nis easy to detect.
Dialogue: 0,2:36:51.72,2:36:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of them\Nhave lost a relative or have nowhere to live.
Dialogue: 0,2:36:55.40,2:37:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They pretend to go back to their everyday routine\Nto boost their wives and childrenís morale,
Dialogue: 0,2:37:01.32,2:37:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somehow,\Neven this catastrophe must be dealt with.
Dialogue: 0,2:37:06.03,2:37:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This morning we drove in some ambulances\Nto the most devastated neighborhoods in the city,
Dialogue: 0,2:37:12.01,2:37:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tal el-Hawa and Zeitoun.
Dialogue: 0,2:37:15.00,2:37:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Questionnaire in hand, we went door-to-door compiling\Na survey of the extent of the damage suffered by the buildings,
Dialogue: 0,2:37:21.08,2:37:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wrote down\Nthe familiesí most urgent requirements:
Dialogue: 0,2:37:25.04,2:37:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,medicine for the elderly and sick,\Nand rice, oil and flour,
Dialogue: 0,2:37:29.05,2:37:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basically the essentials,\Nto feed themselves with.
Dialogue: 0,2:37:34.00,2:37:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All that weíve been able to give them\Nso far are meters of nylon,
Dialogue: 0,2:37:38.02,2:37:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be used in lieu of their shattered windowpanes\Nto block out the cold.
Dialogue: 0,2:37:43.07,2:37:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ISM colleagues in Rafah informed me...
Dialogue: 0,2:37:46.76,2:37:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that the municipality\Nhas handed out a few thousand dollars,
Dialogue: 0,2:37:51.04,2:37:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mere pennies, to the families whoíve had their houses\Ncompletely razed to the ground by the bombs,
Dialogue: 0,2:37:56.03,2:38:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the very same that according to Israel,\Nhad been dropped only to destroy the tunnels.
Dialogue: 0,2:38:03.00,2:38:05.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the end of the conflict with Lebanon,
Dialogue: 0,2:38:05.06,2:38:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hezbollah had donated millions of dollars in cheques\Nto support homeless Lebanese citizens.
Dialogue: 0,2:38:11.00,2:38:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Gaza,\Nembargoed and under siege,
Dialogue: 0,2:38:14.07,2:38:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hamas is hardly able to support its people...
Dialogue: 0,2:38:18.03,2:38:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...with what "would barely be enough\Nto rebuild a barn for livestock",
Dialogue: 0,2:38:22.12,2:38:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says Khaled, a Rafah farmer.
Dialogue: 0,2:38:25.48,2:38:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the truce is unilateral,\NIsrael unilaterally decides not to respect it.
Dialogue: 0,2:38:31.56,2:38:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Khan Yunos, a Palestinian boy was killed yesterday,\Nand another was injured.
Dialogue: 0,2:38:37.08,2:38:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,East of Gaza City,
Dialogue: 0,2:38:40.01,2:38:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helicopters have showered a residential area\Nwith white phosphorous.
Dialogue: 0,2:38:45.00,2:38:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same happened in Jabalia.
Dialogue: 0,2:38:47.09,2:38:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Khan Younis today,\Nthe warships shot their cannons against an open plain,
Dialogue: 0,2:38:53.04,2:38:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thankfully without harming anyone.
Dialogue: 0,2:38:56.20,2:39:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, as I write,\Nnews of advancing tanks has reached me.
Dialogue: 0,2:39:01.01,2:39:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Weíre not aware of any Palestinian rockets\Nhaving been fired in the last 24 hours.
Dialogue: 0,2:39:06.08,2:39:11.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,International journalists\Nare clamoring for news all along the Strip.
Dialogue: 0,2:39:11.56,2:39:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They only managed to get in today. Israel granted them\Na pass only now that the massacre is winding down.
Dialogue: 0,2:39:18.00,2:39:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Standing by the blackened skeleton\Nof what remains of Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City,
Dialogue: 0,2:39:24.06,2:39:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an astonished BBC reporter\Nasked me how the army...
Dialogue: 0,2:39:28.08,2:39:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...could possibly have mistaken the building\Nfor a terroristsí den.
Dialogue: 0,2:39:32.52,2:39:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said:
Dialogue: 0,2:39:34.05,2:39:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For the very same reason\Nthat children running away from burning buildings...
Dialogue: 0,2:39:39.05,2:39:42.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...are put in the sights of snipers on the roofs,
Dialogue: 0,2:39:42.07,2:39:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who then donít hesitate to kill them,
Dialogue: 0,2:39:45.16,2:39:49.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spreading their grey matter\Nall over the road."
Dialogue: 0,2:39:49.03,2:39:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The journalist furrowed his brow further.
Dialogue: 0,2:39:51.56,2:39:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The enormous difference between us eyewitnesses\Nand firsthand victims of the massacre,
Dialogue: 0,2:39:58.01,2:40:04.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those who heard about it through our stories,\Nis now further highlighted.
Dialogue: 0,2:40:04.03,2:40:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From Rome\NIím told that the EU intends...
Dialogue: 0,2:40:07.01,2:40:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to freeze the funds assigned\Nfor the reconstruction of Gaza...
Dialogue: 0,2:40:10.00,2:40:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...while itís still being governed by Hamas.
Dialogue: 0,2:40:16.01,2:40:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He hinted.
Dialogue: 0,2:40:19.00,2:40:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The European Commissioner for External Relations,\NBenita Ferrero-Waldner, has made her point clear on this score:
Dialogue: 0,2:40:27.08,2:40:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The aid for the reconstruction of the Strip",\Nstated the European diplomat,
Dialogue: 0,2:40:33.00,2:40:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"will only arrive if Palestinian President Abu Mazen...
Dialogue: 0,2:40:38.02,2:40:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...will once again re-establish his authority\Nover the territory".
Dialogue: 0,2:40:44.00,2:40:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Gazaís Palestinians this is an explicit invitation\Nfrom the outside to engage in civil war,
Dialogue: 0,2:40:50.02,2:40:52.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or in a coup díÈtat.
Dialogue: 0,2:40:52.05,2:40:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís equivalent\Nto legitimizing the massacre of 410 children,
Dialogue: 0,2:40:56.00,2:41:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who died\Nbecause their parents support democracy...
Dialogue: 0,2:41:00.02,2:41:05.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and freely elected Hamas.
Dialogue: 0,2:41:05.05,2:41:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The EU is diligently echoing the criminal policy\Nof collective punishment imposed by Israel.
Dialogue: 0,2:41:11.01,2:41:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not entrust the funds to the UN?
Dialogue: 0,2:41:14.07,2:41:17.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or some governmental organization?"
Dialogue: 0,2:41:17.05,2:41:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Unites States\Nare free to elect a warmonger like Bush,
Dialogue: 0,2:41:21.00,2:41:26.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Israel can choose leaders with bloodied hands\Nlike Sharon or Netanyahu,
Dialogue: 0,2:41:26.05,2:41:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we, the people of Gaza,
Dialogue: 0,2:41:28.84,2:41:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arenít free to chose Hamas?",
Dialogue: 0,2:41:31.02,2:41:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suggested Mohamed,\Na human rights activist,
Dialogue: 0,2:41:34.07,2:41:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who never voted\Nfor the Islamic movement himself.
Dialogue: 0,2:41:37.64,2:41:41.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had no arguments to contradict him.
Dialogue: 0,2:41:41.05,2:41:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Living Palestinians learn from their dead;
Dialogue: 0,2:41:45.05,2:41:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they learn to live while dying,\Nright from the youngest age.
Dialogue: 0,2:41:49.80,2:41:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Truce after truce,\Nthe general perception here is that of a macabre pause...
Dialogue: 0,2:41:55.40,2:42:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...during which to count the dead\Nbetween one massacre and another,
Dialogue: 0,2:42:00.04,2:42:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and peace has never felt so elusive.
Dialogue: 0,2:42:02.07,2:42:08.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scouring Gaza City on board an ambulance\Nwith the siren switched off for once,
Dialogue: 0,2:42:08.03,2:42:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the war is still everywhere,
Dialogue: 0,2:42:10.00,2:42:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among the ruins of a city pillaged of smiles\Nand now populated only by frightened gazes,
Dialogue: 0,2:42:16.05,2:42:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eyes that insist upon scanning the sky\Nfor the planes still flying endlessly overhead.
Dialogue: 0,2:42:22.01,2:42:26.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inside a home\Nwe visited with some paramedics,
Dialogue: 0,2:42:26.10,2:42:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I noticed some pastel drawings on the floor.
Dialogue: 0,2:42:31.00,2:42:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was clearly a childís hand that had abandoned them\Nafter evacuating the house in a mad rush.
Dialogue: 0,2:42:37.00,2:42:39.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I picked one of them up,
Dialogue: 0,2:42:39.24,2:42:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tanks, helicopters and a body in pieces.
Dialogue: 0,2:42:44.00,2:42:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the middle of the drawing a child\Nwith a stone had succeeded in reaching the sunís height
Dialogue: 0,2:42:50.01,2:42:53.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was damaging one of the flying death machines.
Dialogue: 0,2:42:53.05,2:42:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís been said that in a childís drawing,
Dialogue: 0,2:42:56.01,2:43:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sun represents their desire to be,\Nto exist.
Dialogue: 0,2:43:01.01,2:43:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sun I saw\Nwas crying tears of blood coloured in red pastel.
Dialogue: 0,2:43:07.04,2:43:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is a unilateral ceasefire enough\Nto heal such traumas?
Dialogue: 0,2:43:14.76,2:43:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,2:43:42.06,2:43:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,20th January 2009
Dialogue: 0,2:43:45.03,2:43:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Traces of Death
Dialogue: 0,2:43:47.05,2:43:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When the details of Gazaís massive destruction become known,
Dialogue: 0,2:43:50.44,2:43:54.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my only reason to travel to Amsterdam...
Dialogue: 0,2:43:54.28,2:43:57.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be to appear before The Hagueís International Court".
Dialogue: 0,2:43:57.96,2:44:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These words were ascribed\Nby the Haaretz newspaper...
Dialogue: 0,2:44:01.32,2:44:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to an Israeli minister,\Nwho prefers to remain anonymous.
Dialogue: 0,2:44:05.16,2:44:09.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All around the world,\Nindignant humanitarian organizations and citizens...
Dialogue: 0,2:44:09.09,2:44:14.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...wish to see the Israeli Army\Nand its government dragged in the courtroom,
Dialogue: 0,2:44:14.05,2:44:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hoping theyíll be found guilty of the war crimes\Ntheir hands were bloodied with during the 22-day massacre in Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,2:44:23.05,2:44:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In their public appearances,\Nthe military and government leaderships donít seem too phased.
Dialogue: 0,2:44:30.00,2:44:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They claim to have solid proof\Nthat the sites they bombed...
Dialogue: 0,2:44:34.07,2:44:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...were all support bases used by Hamas terrorists.
Dialogue: 0,2:44:39.00,2:44:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me get this straight:
Dialogue: 0,2:44:41.32,2:44:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weíre talking about\Nover 20,000 houses damaged by the shelling,
Dialogue: 0,2:44:46.00,2:44:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including 1,300 human casualties.
Dialogue: 0,2:44:49.09,2:44:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To check out these alleged,
Dialogue: 0,2:44:51.10,2:44:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crucial strategic hide-outs of Islamic terrorism,
Dialogue: 0,2:44:55.01,2:45:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I headed to one of the most heavily bombed areas,\NJabal Al-Dardour in the northern Strip.
Dialogue: 0,2:45:02.03,2:45:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dozens of buildings had been razed to the ground.
Dialogue: 0,2:45:05.04,2:45:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mammoth-sized, armour-plated bulldozers\Nare custom-built by Caterpillar (boycott it!)
Dialogue: 0,2:45:11.24,2:45:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to raze Palestinian houses to the ground,
Dialogue: 0,2:45:13.09,2:45:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are used to lend the army tanks a hand\Nin their destructive effort.
Dialogue: 0,2:45:18.92,2:45:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Out there I saw men and women rummaging through the rubble,\Nlooking for things, such as an article of clothing,
Dialogue: 0,2:45:25.05,2:45:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a few dust-coated school bags\Nor portrait photos of families in cracked frames.
Dialogue: 0,2:45:31.56,2:45:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iíve never caught sight of any destroyed arsenals,
Dialogue: 0,2:45:34.03,2:45:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only buildings with their ceilings torn clear off their walls, where you can\Ncatch sight of what was once a living-room, the remains of a bedroom,
Dialogue: 0,2:45:42.08,2:45:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a kitchen reduced to cinders.
Dialogue: 0,2:45:45.01,2:45:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abu Omar, a molecular biologist,
Dialogue: 0,2:45:48.01,2:45:52.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has invited me to come\Nand see whatís left of his apartment.
Dialogue: 0,2:45:52.06,2:45:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His neighbour, Osama,\Na paediatrician,
Dialogue: 0,2:45:55.01,2:46:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also showed me his house,\Nreduced to a colander.
Dialogue: 0,2:46:00.01,2:46:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The propulsive power of the missiles...
Dialogue: 0,2:46:02.01,2:46:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...splashed some debris\Nfrom the near-by orange orchard onto the building.
Dialogue: 0,2:46:08.06,2:46:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The juice of oranges,\Nmixed with the clotted blood splattered all over the floor,
Dialogue: 0,2:46:14.07,2:46:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looked like a naÔf painterís canvas.
Dialogue: 0,2:46:18.92,2:46:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An elderly man,\Nhis head wrapped in a kafiyeh,
Dialogue: 0,2:46:21.80,2:46:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,approaches us to ask Natalie,\Nour Lebanese companion with the ISM, where sheís from.
Dialogue: 0,2:46:28.02,2:46:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Waving his walking stick in the air,
Dialogue: 0,2:46:30.60,2:46:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if to draw a wide arc\Nover the devastated landscape before us,
Dialogue: 0,2:46:34.00,2:46:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he says,
Dialogue: 0,2:46:36.03,2:46:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Beirut and Gaza, same painting, same artist."
Dialogue: 0,2:46:39.88,2:46:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even Osamaís pigeon coop\Nhasnít been spared by the shelling.
Dialogue: 0,2:46:44.00,2:46:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His birds lie on the ground,\Nas if defeated by a sky too heavy for their wings,
Dialogue: 0,2:46:50.00,2:46:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as heavy as "cast lead".
Dialogue: 0,2:46:52.03,2:46:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They tried to defeat the Palestinian air force,
Dialogue: 0,2:46:54.10,2:46:59.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or perhaps they thought these birds\Nmight be dispatch carriers for Hamas",
Dialogue: 0,2:46:59.06,2:47:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told the paediatrician,\Ncausing him to smile sadly.
Dialogue: 0,2:47:04.02,2:47:07.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we travelled in our broken-down taxi,
Dialogue: 0,2:47:07.07,2:47:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we crossed routes\Nwith the UNís Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon.
Dialogue: 0,2:47:12.01,2:47:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A long line of brand-new SUVs,\Nall tinted windows and UN logos,
Dialogue: 0,2:47:19.08,2:47:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,darted through Gaza as\Nif the earth shook beneath their tires.
Dialogue: 0,2:47:23.10,2:47:28.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As it happens,\Nthis was actually the case until a few days ago.
Dialogue: 0,2:47:28.07,2:47:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wandering around the impossible puzzle\Nof Jabal Al-Dardourís ruins,
Dialogue: 0,2:47:32.07,2:47:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard someone call my name.\NWhen I looked over my shoulder, I saw Abu Ashrafa.
Dialogue: 0,2:47:38.04,2:47:44.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iíd attended his sonís funeral\Nwhen he was killed by a bomb last November,
Dialogue: 0,2:47:44.06,2:47:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a month in which, according to Israel and the Western media,\Na ceasefire had been called.
Dialogue: 0,2:47:50.00,2:47:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abu Ashrafa had just lost another relative,\Nand his house has been razed down to its foundations.
Dialogue: 0,2:47:57.00,2:48:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They havenít left us a single head of livestock,\Na rock, or an olive tree standing ñ theyíre not human",
Dialogue: 0,2:48:04.06,2:48:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he said, leading me to his olive orchard.
Dialogue: 0,2:48:07.72,2:48:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many trees ñ the centenary ones ñ\Nhave been torn down by Israeli bulldozers.
Dialogue: 0,2:48:14.01,2:48:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís as if they were trying to make up for not being able\Nto erase lives that are impossible to uproot from their origins,
Dialogue: 0,2:48:24.09,2:48:30.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their identity and their burning desire for justice,\Nsurviving all destruction.
Dialogue: 0,2:48:30.92,2:48:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not far away a middle-aged man approached me,
Dialogue: 0,2:48:33.07,2:48:37.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asking if I thought all Palestinians\Nwere Hamas guerrilla fighters.
Dialogue: 0,2:48:37.09,2:48:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From a window\Nin his damaged home flapped a yellow Fatah banner.
Dialogue: 0,2:48:42.00,2:48:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Our Kalashnikov is our faith and honour,
Dialogue: 0,2:48:44.68,2:48:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will stand up for our land tooth and nail\Nin the same way you would defend your daughter from being raped",
Dialogue: 0,2:48:51.08,2:48:53.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this Fatah supporter told me.
Dialogue: 0,2:48:53.09,2:48:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If Israelís objective was to isolate\Nand rid the Strip of Hamas...
Dialogue: 0,2:48:57.08,2:49:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...by dividing further a people\Nalready split by internal diatribes,
Dialogue: 0,2:49:02.44,2:49:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then Israel has achieved\Nthe exact opposite of what it intended.
Dialogue: 0,2:49:06.28,2:49:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bombing\Nhas in part given Gaza back its national identity.
Dialogue: 0,2:49:10.02,2:49:12.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The litmus test of this new situation...
Dialogue: 0,2:49:12.07,2:49:16.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...is represented by the muqawama,\Nthe Palestinian resistance,
Dialogue: 0,2:49:16.07,2:49:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heroic in its attempt\Nto stop the Israeli Army from advancing.
Dialogue: 0,2:49:20.36,2:49:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The flowing beards of the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam\NBrigadesí Islamists, Hamasí fighting wing,
Dialogue: 0,2:49:26.02,2:49:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have fought side-by-side with the scampish, goatee-sporting Marxist\Nguerrilla fighters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,
Dialogue: 0,2:49:34.44,2:49:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and alongside Fatahís Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Dialogue: 0,2:49:37.07,2:49:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only time will tell\Nif this newfound unity among the militias
Dialogue: 0,2:49:42.03,2:49:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a reflection\Nof unity within civic and political society.
Dialogue: 0,2:49:48.03,2:49:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leaving behind us the lunar atmosphere\Nof Jabal Al-Dardour, denuded of its buildings,
Dialogue: 0,2:49:54.06,2:50:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we paused before a frowning child\Nsitting atop a small pile of rubble,
Dialogue: 0,2:50:00.04,2:50:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or what was left of his houseís courtyard.
Dialogue: 0,2:50:03.02,2:50:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We asked him what was going through his mind.
Dialogue: 0,2:50:06.06,2:50:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his simple words he seemed\Nto be saying that Hamas and its resistance...
Dialogue: 0,2:50:11.01,2:50:14.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...were responsible for this catastrophe.
Dialogue: 0,2:50:14.05,2:50:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Fida, our ISM companion\Ntook him aside in a motherly manner...
Dialogue: 0,2:50:19.01,2:50:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and briefly told him of their history.
Dialogue: 0,2:50:22.09,2:50:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She spoke of soldiers marching into Rafah in 2004...
Dialogue: 0,2:50:26.01,2:50:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and razing entire neighbourhoods to the ground,
Dialogue: 0,2:50:30.00,2:50:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exactly as had happened here and now.
Dialogue: 0,2:50:34.02,2:50:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back then, there was no Hamas, and Fatahís leader, Yasser Arafat,\Nwas the designated terrorist, the number one enemy...
Dialogue: 0,2:50:42.44,2:50:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to dethrone and wipe away from Palestine.
Dialogue: 0,2:50:46.07,2:50:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But rather than targeting Fatahís headquarters, even then\Nthe Israeli troops struck indiscriminately and killed dozens of civilians,
Dialogue: 0,2:50:55.01,2:50:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,razing Fidaís house in the process as well.
Dialogue: 0,2:50:59.08,2:51:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Travelling back towards Gaza City,
Dialogue: 0,2:51:01.09,2:51:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the car in which we drove plunged into a hole\Nin the concrete created by the tanksí creaking wheels.
Dialogue: 0,2:51:10.00,2:51:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The taxi driver turned around and said:
Dialogue: 0,2:51:12.06,2:51:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Death was here and left its footprints."
Dialogue: 0,2:51:16.84,2:51:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wonder how long itíll take\Nfor the scars of this land to heal.
Dialogue: 0,2:51:23.24,2:52:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.
Dialogue: 0,2:52:08.01,2:52:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,22nd January 2009
Dialogue: 0,2:52:13.04,2:52:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What her tears have seen
Dialogue: 0,2:52:16.10,2:52:25.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I crossed the threshold of my house in Almina,\Nfacing Gaza Cityís port, after several daysí absence.
Dialogue: 0,2:52:25.09,2:52:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything was exactly as I had left it,
Dialogue: 0,2:52:30.00,2:52:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the gas tank was still anorexic\N(feeding it is too expensive)
Dialogue: 0,2:52:36.01,2:52:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the power had been cut off\Nby a perfect strangerís pliers.
Dialogue: 0,2:52:41.04,2:52:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The pleasant panorama\Nthat had once been outside my window has changed...
Dialogue: 0,2:52:46.08,2:52:52.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and no longer raises my spirits\Nfrom the miseries of living under siege.
Dialogue: 0,2:52:52.10,2:53:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the contrary, it now rubs salt in the wound,\Na trauma that wonít heal with its reminders of a massacre.
Dialogue: 0,2:53:03.00,2:53:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Twenty metres from my front door,\Nwhere the fire station once stood, a huge crater now gapes...
Dialogue: 0,2:53:11.00,2:53:19.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...wide for children to mess around in,\Nas if to exorcize its horror for their parents.
Dialogue: 0,2:53:19.03,2:53:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The afternoon call to prayer no longer has the same comforting\Nquality of the muezzinís chant that I had grown accustomed to.
Dialogue: 0,2:53:28.52,2:53:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wonder where heís gone to, and if he managed to survive\Nat the top of one of the few minarets still left intact.
Dialogue: 0,2:53:38.00,2:53:46.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The last time Iíd listened to him, this anonymous muezzin\Nhad had to interrupt his solemnly chanted call to prayer...
Dialogue: 0,2:53:46.06,2:53:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...because of a chesty cough.
Dialogue: 0,2:53:50.04,2:53:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís an affliction Iím familiar with myself,
Dialogue: 0,2:53:53.08,2:53:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the gases of the bombing in Gaza\Nhave spared no one.
Dialogue: 0,2:53:59.08,2:54:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found a note at the foot of the French window\Nlooking onto my small balcony,
Dialogue: 0,2:54:04.09,2:54:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if it had been put there\Nby a friend.
Dialogue: 0,2:54:08.68,2:54:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The street and garden were littered with these same leaflets.\NThey had been dropped from Israeli airplanes...
Dialogue: 0,2:54:16.00,2:54:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...warning the Palestinians to stay alert,\Nand be aware that the walls had ears and eyes.
Dialogue: 0,2:54:24.20,2:54:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"At the slightest threatening action against Israel\Nweíll be back to invade the Gaza Strip again.
Dialogue: 0,2:54:31.88,2:54:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What youíve seen these days\Nis nothing compared with what awaits you."
Dialogue: 0,2:54:38.07,2:54:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some kids in the streets had picked up the leaflets\Nand folded them into paper airplanes,
Dialogue: 0,2:54:45.00,2:54:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seemingly sending the message back to its destination.
Dialogue: 0,2:54:51.02,2:54:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the phone,\NAhmed told me about a new kidsí game.
Dialogue: 0,2:54:56.01,2:55:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until a few days ago, they amused themselves by relighting the\Nfires, simply kicking the fragments of white phosphorous bombs
Dialogue: 0,2:55:05.00,2:55:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scattered all over the Strip.
Dialogue: 0,2:55:08.84,2:55:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The debris left by these bombs\Nhas very long-lasting flammable properties.
Dialogue: 0,2:55:16.03,2:55:26.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even when picked up several days after their detonation,\Nthey can still catch fire if shaken about.
Dialogue: 0,2:55:26.92,2:55:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Al-Quds Hospital paramedics\Nspeak of how they have given up trying to put out the fires...
Dialogue: 0,2:55:33.80,2:55:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...provoked by these illegal bombs,
Dialogue: 0,2:55:37.48,2:55:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their flames seemed to feed off the water\Nbeing thrown at them.
Dialogue: 0,2:55:42.10,2:55:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The consequences of all the shit\Nthatís been thrown at us in these last three weeks...
Dialogue: 0,2:55:48.68,2:55:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...will surface again in the near future,\Nwith new cancer cases and deformed babies",
Dialogue: 0,2:55:55.01,2:56:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Munir, a doctor\Nat Al-Shifa Hospital told me.
Dialogue: 0,2:56:01.32,2:56:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even Gazaís neighbours seem to be worrying about this massive\Nuse of weapons forbidden by all international conventions.
Dialogue: 0,2:56:10.60,2:56:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Sderot, and likewise in Ashkelon,\NIsraeli citizens have formally asked their government...
Dialogue: 0,2:56:18.44,2:56:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...for clarification regarding the weapons\Nthat have been used to torment us.
Dialogue: 0,2:56:24.01,2:56:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itís obvious that impoverished uranium\Nand white phosphorous...
Dialogue: 0,2:56:30.02,2:56:36.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...scattered in such a criminal manner\Nall over the tiny patch of land that is Gaza...
Dialogue: 0,2:56:36.09,2:56:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...wonít discriminate between Jews and Muslims\Nwhen it comes to provoking generic illnesses.
Dialogue: 0,2:56:45.80,2:56:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truce ought to have started by now,
Dialogue: 0,2:56:49.16,2:56:54.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but today I was awoken in my bed\Nby the deafening rumble of cannon shots from the warships,
Dialogue: 0,2:56:54.92,2:56:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exactly like a few days ago.
Dialogue: 0,2:56:58.00,2:57:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some brave Palestinian fishermen had ventured from the port\Nequipped with fishing nets on their tiny boats.
Dialogue: 0,2:57:06.10,2:57:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Israeli Navy pushed them back.
Dialogue: 0,2:57:09.80,2:57:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nowadays, the only edible fish found in Gaza...
Dialogue: 0,2:57:13.64,2:57:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...are the Egyptian cans of tuna\Nthat came through the tunnels months ago.
Dialogue: 0,2:57:19.08,2:57:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,East of Gaza City two children were blown up\Nwhen playing with an unexploded device.
Dialogue: 0,2:57:28.52,2:57:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The witnesses we heard spoke of active mines\Nin front of the ruins of Tal El-Hawaís houses.
Dialogue: 0,2:57:35.10,2:57:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some bomb disposal experts\Nsent over by Hamas defused them and,
Dialogue: 0,2:57:41.01,2:57:46.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,judging by the care\Nwith which they loaded them onto an off-road vehicle,
Dialogue: 0,2:57:46.06,2:57:59.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades might return that\Nmessage of death straight back to its lawful owners sometime soon.
Dialogue: 0,2:57:59.06,2:58:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking from Naeemaís roof, the Israeli-Palestinian border\Nhas never seemed so easy to pick out.
Dialogue: 0,2:58:08.00,2:58:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On one side lie the green hills,\Nbeing constantly watered by the Israeli kibbutzim.
Dialogue: 0,2:58:13.08,2:58:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other you see the parching thirst\Nof a land robbed of its water springs and herds.
Dialogue: 0,2:58:20.08,2:58:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Naeema wished to tell me all about her last few days,
Dialogue: 0,2:58:24.10,2:58:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a tactile,\Naural and olfactory account of the massacre,
Dialogue: 0,2:58:30.44,2:58:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,considering that young Naeema is blind.
Dialogue: 0,2:58:35.08,2:58:44.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The soldiers threateningly ordered her fellow villagers to evacuate\Ntheir homes only a few minutes before storming the place.
Dialogue: 0,2:58:44.09,2:58:51.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The men loaded the younger children onto their shoulders\Nand ran away, along with their women.
Dialogue: 0,2:58:51.09,2:58:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Naeema chose to stay\Nso as not to slow down their escape.
Dialogue: 0,2:58:57.09,2:59:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She took refuge in her own home,\Nbelieving herself to be safe,
Dialogue: 0,2:59:03.02,2:59:08.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and welcomed her neighbours,\Nwho had nowhere else to go:
Dialogue: 0,2:59:08.03,2:59:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three women, an elderly lady\Nand a paralyzed old man.
Dialogue: 0,2:59:15.00,2:59:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then the tanks and bulldozers came,\Nspreading death and destruction,
Dialogue: 0,2:59:20.52,2:59:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,devouring acre by acre,\Nuntil they stopped in front of Naeemaís house.
Dialogue: 0,2:59:28.68,2:59:35.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Standing on a small hill,\Nthe building she inhabits is the tallest in the village,
Dialogue: 0,2:59:35.05,2:59:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Israeli soldiers,\Nwho found that it was strategically positioned,
Dialogue: 0,2:59:41.00,2:59:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let themselves in\Nand occupied it for two weeks.
Dialogue: 0,2:59:46.03,2:59:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They came in and pointed their weapons at us,
Dialogue: 0,2:59:51.04,2:59:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pushing us into a small room,\Nwhere they locked us up for 11 days", Naeema said.
Dialogue: 0,2:59:56.03,3:00:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"During that entire time\Nthey only brought us water to drink twice,
Dialogue: 0,3:00:02.00,3:00:07.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and food came in the form\Nof leftovers from the soldiersí rations.
Dialogue: 0,3:00:07.05,3:00:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hey never let us go to the bathroom,\Nso we had to relieve ourselves one corner of the room.
Dialogue: 0,3:00:15.00,3:00:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hey wouldnít let us talk among ourselves,\Nand would come in and beat us at night,
Dialogue: 0,3:00:20.03,3:00:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when, huddled in a circle,\Nwe tried to gather some strength from prayer.
Dialogue: 0,3:00:26.00,3:00:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes theyíd come over and, intimidating us\Nby pressing their weapons against our napes,
Dialogue: 0,3:00:32.02,3:00:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they demanded that we confess\Nour alleged support for Hamas,
Dialogue: 0,3:00:35.72,3:00:40.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,insulting us when we wouldnít comply."
Dialogue: 0,3:00:40.07,3:00:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end of the eleventh day of imprisonment,
Dialogue: 0,3:00:43.08,3:00:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the international Red Cross finally arrived\Nand released the six prisoners from their jailers.
Dialogue: 0,3:00:50.01,3:00:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They didnít allow us to pick anything up,\Nnot even my sunglasses",
Dialogue: 0,3:00:55.08,3:01:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Naeema related, bringing her story to a close, adding\Nthat when she and her neighbours returned to their homes,
Dialogue: 0,3:01:03.40,3:01:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they discovered the thievery carried out by the soldiers.
Dialogue: 0,3:01:07.88,3:01:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had taken all their gold trinkets and hidden savings,\Nafter having destroyed their few possessions:
Dialogue: 0,3:01:15.06,3:01:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two TV sets, a radio, a fridge,\Nand the solar panels on the roofs.
Dialogue: 0,3:01:23.04,3:01:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw tears in this womanís eyes,\Nhidden by her dark glasses.
Dialogue: 0,3:01:29.48,3:01:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They seemed the most vivid\NI had ever seen.
Dialogue: 0,3:01:33.04,3:01:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In actual fact, what Naeema "saw"...
Dialogue: 0,3:01:37.00,3:01:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...is a lot more that any young woman her age\Nwill ever get a chance to see,
Dialogue: 0,3:01:43.07,3:01:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if she had the misfortune of being born\Nin this tortured strip of land.
Dialogue: 0,3:01:53.00,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay human.