Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Hadeel Assali | 5 minutes

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Shuja’iyah: Land of the Brave

Hadeel Assali

The film is a call, a plea for help. There was a recording from a journalist in Shuja’iyah as the massacre was taking place. And the Red Cross, and basically the world, were not responding. He’s watching people get massacred and the Red Cross isn’t coming, they’re not answering their phones, and he’s just pleading for the world to respond. My cousin from Gaza sent me the audio recording of this guy, and out of desperation said to please do something with this — anything. It needed a translation, since it was in Arabic. And the only way for people here to understand that was to make a film. I decided, instead of putting images of destruction and death, to show what this place is, and who these people are, who are being terrorized like this. The footage is my own family around different parts of Gaza. Nevertheless, it’s daily life in the Gaza Strip juxtaposed against the horrible massacre that’s happening, where anybody could be targeted.
Source: http://www.bostonpalestinefilmfest.org/2014/10/hadeel-assali/

Review:
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/benjamin-doherty/watch-shujaiyah-land-brave-reveals-crisis-humanity

Full feature: https://player.vimeo.com/video/101322532?app_id=122963

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