Global Courant 2023-05-13 12:05:36
Video duration 47 minutes 47 seconds
The powerful testimony of Palestinian families in Gaza as they remember 54 of the children killed in the 11-day Israeli bombing in May 2021.
In 2021, in the 11 days between May 10 and 21, the Israeli bombardment of Gaza killed more than 60 Palestinian children.
This film is a stark, emotional memorial to some of these children, told through family testimonials, home footage, and images of young lives, lived and lost.
In a stark and repeating pattern, day after day, family after family, their stories unfold: siblings laugh and cry as they recall their shared childhood; grieving parents relive painful details of the bombings and create memorial tableaux of their children’s belongings; cousins, aunts and neighbors paint a picture of childhood and family life in Gaza.
On some days entire families were all but wiped out. In a single attack, a man lost his wife and three children, all under the age of 10. Another attack killed four siblings from the al-Hadidi family – the eldest, Yousef, was 11 years old. The families address the viewer directly. They share the joys of life before and the pain of funerals after, in a simple yet powerful story of 11 devastating days in Gaza.