Gaza Refugees

Video Description

• Refugees living in bad conditions.
• Makeshift refugee camps.
• Young women with infant crying.
• Young women shouting and weeping.
• Bad living conditions.
• Man drinking dirty water in makeshift camp.
• Young girl crying.
• Man shouting about the conditions.
• Shireen Tadros PTC

Rushed Transcript:

They fled the frontlines of this war... knowing that Israel's assault would follow them. In Gaza, nowhere is safe and nobody is immune from the onslaught.

There are hundreds of refugees now living in makehift centres like this school in Gaza City. Thirteen thousand have already been DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES, according to the UN.
Noha left her home on the outskirts of the Strip with her husband and three children. Her youngest, Marwa, hasen’t been changed in 3 days. The milk she is drinking is the last bottle Noha has for her…

SOT NOHA – REFUGEE I want to tell people outside to do something, why is Palestinian blood so cheap to you? Why are our neighbours living in peace but we are deprived of that? What have the children done to deserve this? Why should my daughter drink milk from a dirty bottle? She won’t even take it anymore. What did we do wrong? They bring us some milk, a blanket- we don’t want it! we want to go home and eat and sleep and live like everyone else. Where is the great Arab world that they taught us about at school? They have left us…shame on them.
Conditions here are deteriorating..creating a CLEAN, SAFE shelter in a warzone is no easy task.

PTC Sherine Tadros – Gaza City

“The school simply isn’t equipped to be able to handle the number of refugees staying here night after night. This is the only place they can get clean water, but you can see most of the taps aren’t working and people are using this sink to wash their hands, their faces, their feet…and they're also using it to drink from because it’s the only clean water in the whole school”

We could feel the anger all around the shelter.... disappointment at the inaction of the international community….and rage at the Arab leaders who they feel have sold them out.

SOT Sobhi Rizk - Refugee
Where are the authorities, where are our leaders..they have shut their eyes. Why is it that children around the world are allowed to live in peace but not Palestine’s children? Aren’t we all the same, the children of God. We just want to be free to live in peace.

61 members of Sobhi Rizk’s family are now living in this shelter….his granddaughter amal was overwhelmed by what was happening around her..

SOT Amal Rizk - Refugee
I am crying for the children of Gaza that have been thrown in the streets. We have nothing to do with this. We don’t fire rockets, we don’t know what this war is about. Why should children be forced to drink dirty water, what did we do wrong? where is everyone?!

Refugees are a casualty of every war. But in Gaza, there is nowhere safe to flee. Israel says its enemy is Hamas, but while it fights its battle it keeps a million and a half people trapped inside the warzone its created.