Surviving_ Orphans of Gaza
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00:00My name is Yusuf, I am two years old.
00:19My sister is Umar Ahmed.
00:23My name is Ahmed, I am two years old.
00:27My name is Ayhan, I am two years old.
00:31My name is Musaib, I am two years old.
00:37My name is Wushuha.
00:53The house was nice and clean.
01:02But when the war came, they bombed the house and we came to the tent.
01:08And the tent is nothing like a country.
01:11All the tents...
01:14All the tents are not good, they bring...
01:18They bring ants, they bring mosquitos.
01:22They make us go to war.
01:25And the salt water is not good.
01:28Sometimes the tent gets very hot and cold.
01:32Because of this, the youth hate us.
01:37We want to go home.
01:40We want to see our brothers, we want to see the whole world.
01:49My name is Mirfad.
01:52I am three years old.
01:54How are you?
01:55Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off.
01:58When will you turn it off?
01:59Turn it off.
02:01How are you?
02:03I am fine, thank God.
02:05I miss you.
02:06I miss you.
02:07The oven is on and I turn it off.
02:09How are you, Mirfad?
02:12Are you okay?
02:14When my sister walks in the tent,
02:17she says,
02:18I don't walk.
02:20She says, she goes to the bathroom.
02:24Mirfad says,
02:26I want to go by myself.
02:29And I tell them,
02:30my sister walks little by little without shoes.
02:34And when I go to school,
02:36I wear shoes.
02:39My sister will fly.
02:43I miss her a lot, Mirfad.
02:46Because I love her.
02:48At night, I dream about my father,
02:53and Mirfad,
02:54and Ahmed,
02:56and my mother,
02:57and my father.
02:59I am Abdullah Mohamed Kamal Abdulla.
03:02I am in the first grade.
03:04I am single.
03:07I don't have a mother or father.
03:10I only have my father and mother.
03:29I am Muhammad Zaki Juha.
03:31I am 17 years old.
03:33I am in the 10th grade.
03:35I live in Al-Shaaf.
03:37In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
03:40I am in the first grade.
03:42I am single.
03:44I don't have a mother or father.
03:46I only have my father and mother.
03:48I don't have a mother or father.
03:50I am in the first grade.
03:52I am single.
03:54I don't have a mother or father.
03:56I don't have a mother or father.
03:58In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
04:00Praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds.
04:02The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
04:0496 people were martyred.
04:06One of them was my mother,
04:08my father,
04:10my three sisters,
04:12my brother,
04:14his two sons,
04:16my sisters,
04:18their six sons,
04:20all my brothers,
04:22my aunt,
04:24my uncle,
04:26more than 20 or 25 martyrs were buried here.
04:30They were cut off.
04:32They were all buried here.
04:36My life now is like hell.
04:38I have nothing to lose.
04:40Everything is gone.
04:42I had many goals.
04:44I wanted to become a worker,
04:46to travel,
04:48to travel.
04:50One of my dreams was to travel,
04:52to travel and come back.
04:54After my mother and father passed away,
04:56my life stopped.
04:58Everything became zero.
05:12Yesterday was my birthday.
05:14It's been 26 years.
05:16Yesterday I said,
05:18this is the first year
05:20I lose everything.
05:22I literally lost everything.
05:24Everything, my mother, my father,
05:26my brother, my family,
05:28my house, my room, my martyrs,
05:30I lost everything.
05:32It's a new state.
05:34I lived a life
05:36that I never imagined
05:38I could live.
05:40We evacuated a lot.
05:42I evacuated 10 places
05:44until now
05:46before we settled in our house.
05:48Thank God,
05:50we are back.
05:54Yusra, take an apple.
05:56Yusra.
05:58Come on.
06:02Zakra?
06:04Zakra, on the day of the siege,
06:06what were you saying?
06:08It was a difficult time
06:10because I didn't know
06:12how to speak.
06:14In the end,
06:16I told Osama,
06:18tell someone to tell the girls
06:20and I will go down.
06:22It was the beginning of the trauma
06:24to see the damage
06:26because I didn't remember anything.
06:28We were sitting at home
06:30when we heard
06:32that they wanted to leave
06:34the Islamic Bank.
06:36The bank was bombed
06:38and after five minutes
06:40we were in the same place.
06:42The bomb exploded
06:44and my family was martyred
06:47The room we were in
06:49was like a miracle tree.
06:51I was brought up
06:53and I lived with it.
06:55In the end, it saved us.
06:57After 45 minutes,
06:59the neighbors came
07:01and the civil defense came
07:03and took us out one by one.
07:10We went out.
07:12According to my brother's story,
07:14my hand was broken.
07:18After a month,
07:20we were able to move.
07:22When I got home,
07:24I found out that
07:26my parents,
07:28my brother,
07:30my entire family were martyred.
07:32The first thing I asked
07:34was how my parents
07:36were doing.
07:38I promised myself
07:40that I would only see the pictures
07:42when the war was over.
07:51When we were in school,
07:53we went to our house
07:55for lunch.
07:57When we got home,
07:59my brother Ahmad
08:01went to buy food
08:03for my father.
08:08Then, when the attack
08:10on my uncle's farm
08:12happened,
08:14we were left alone.
08:18My father died in the kitchen.
08:20We were in the room
08:22where my aunt was.
08:26I became a bear
08:28in the kitchen.
08:30The first bear
08:32was this one.
08:34After I became a bear,
08:36I became a bear here.
08:38After I became a bear,
08:40I became a bear here.
08:42After I became a bear,
08:44I became a bear here.
08:46Two bears were martyred.
08:48My brother Ahmad
08:50was shot.
08:52My mother
08:54was bleeding
08:56from her head.
08:58She was bleeding from her head
09:00and my father was shot.
09:09She was lying on the floor.
09:11They took her out and cut her.
09:13My brother saw her doing this.
09:15He didn't see her at first.
09:17My brother blamed her.
09:19He blamed her wrongly.
09:21The girl blamed her.
09:23They took her to the hospital.
09:25They sewed her face.
09:27She is still suffering from the bruises.
09:29The left leg was broken.
09:31They cut it.
09:33The other leg was cut
09:35from the first thigh
09:37to the last thigh.
09:39She is suffering.
09:41When she goes to the bathroom,
09:43when she wakes up,
09:45she screams and cries.
09:47She says,
09:49I dreamed of my father,
09:51my mother,
09:53and Tina.
09:55This nightmare
09:57keeps repeating.
09:59She has suffered a lot.
10:01She has suffered a lot.
10:03She has stopped speaking
10:05and playing.
10:07We are trying to break
10:09the barrier of fear.
10:11When Yusuf hears a bomb,
10:13he sticks to the wood.
10:21Since the beginning of this camp,
10:23we have heard
10:25that a child
10:27lost his father,
10:29his mother,
10:31and his siblings.
10:33One of your family members was bombed.
10:35All of your family members were bombed.
10:37We received Abdullah
10:39inside this camp
10:41with his uncle's family
10:43inside this camp.
10:49Did you hear the explosion?
10:51Did you hear it?
10:53I didn't feel anything.
10:55When did you wake up?
10:57Where did you wake up?
10:59In my uncle's house.
11:01My mom and dad
11:03told me to wake up slowly.
11:05What did they tell you?
11:07They told me
11:09to wake up slowly.
11:11They told me to buy
11:13some things.
11:17My father was also alive
11:19but he was in the concentration camp.
11:21We thank God
11:23that he is alive.
11:25He is also alive.
11:27Thank God for everything.
11:29Thank God for everything.
11:31May God protect you
11:33and bless you.
11:35May God bless you.
11:55We were safe at home
11:57when they bombed the house.
11:59I heard a loud noise.
12:01When I fell,
12:03they told me I was flying.
12:05I fell in front of the house.
12:07This is the last floor.
12:09This is the last floor.
12:11This is the last floor.
12:13The last floor was burned.
12:15The fridge and the pot
12:17were inside the fridge.
12:19The fridge and the pot
12:21were inside the fridge.
12:23The first floor
12:25and the second floor
12:27were ours.
12:29The first floor
12:31was my uncle's.
12:33There were people
12:35coming from outside
12:37with their children and wives.
12:39My father was flying
12:41a long distance.
12:43My mother was flying
12:45to build her house.
12:47My brother was hanging
12:49and bleeding.
12:51He was bleeding.
12:53The wound was deeper
12:55than this.
12:57It was open.
12:59One day,
13:01I found a scar
13:03on my finger.
13:05The scar was inside.
13:07I found it
13:09as I was moving.
13:13There is a bone
13:15in this nail.
13:17We couldn't
13:19get it out.
13:21It was a nail.
13:23We couldn't get it out.
13:27We couldn't do anything.
13:29We saw the bones.
13:31We were in pain.
13:33My family
13:35including my brother
13:37were the only survivors.
13:39There were 96 of us.
13:49This is a picture of the house
13:51before it was demolished.
13:53There were five floors.
13:55This is a picture
13:57of the whole family.
13:59This is my father.
14:01This is my mother.
14:03This is my brother
14:05Majid and his son
14:07and his wife.
14:09This is my sister
14:11and my brother's wife
14:13and their children
14:15who came after 7 years.
14:17This is Amir
14:19going to the sea.
14:21Amir is
14:23the second half of my heart.
14:25He is in the sand.
14:27He plays in the sand.
14:29The best moments
14:31were the gatherings with my family.
14:33Christmas, football,
14:35going to the sea.
14:37We would all gather
14:39and go to the sea.
14:41We would stay up until midnight
14:43and then go home.
14:45This is my mother.
14:47This is my brother.
14:49Who are these?
14:51This is Ahmed.
14:53And this?
14:55This is my mother.
14:57And this?
14:59This is Omar.
15:01No, this is not Omar.
15:03This is Yusuf.
15:05Who is this?
15:07What is his name?
15:09This is my father.
15:11What is his name?
15:13Mohammad.
15:25How are you?
15:27Today is my birthday.
15:29Thank God,
15:31most of my memories are beautiful.
15:33Thank God, during the war,
15:35the first real experience
15:37was when I left my family.
15:39I felt like I was living in an empty city
15:41when I moved to another place.
15:43May God have mercy on my family.
15:45May God bless them.
15:49What memories do I have?
15:51Every moment of my life has beautiful memories.
15:53My favorite memory
15:55is the graduation party.
15:57When I graduated from the Faculty of Medicine
15:59at the Islamic University in 2022.
16:01All my family came to the party.
16:03We had fun.
16:05It felt like we were on a bus.
16:07We were on the road.
16:09We were very happy.
16:25May God have mercy on my father.
16:27I used to go to my uncle's house.
16:29He would bring us kebabs
16:31and we would go to the beach.
16:33After we ate,
16:35we would go to the playground.
16:37Sometimes,
16:39when I would go to work,
16:41he would let me carry my bag
16:43as if it were not mine.
16:45I would play with my sister,
16:47Fatouma.
16:49May God have mercy on her.
16:51She was very naughty.
16:53Also,
16:55when we would have lunch,
16:57she would attack the bread.
16:59We would put the bread
17:01and she would attack it
17:03because she wanted to eat it.
17:07May God have mercy on your soul.
17:11May God have mercy on your soul.
17:19We used to play
17:21in the warm water.
17:23We played a lot.
17:25We played all day.
17:29We would go to Aunt Merfa's house
17:31and Aunt Manar's house.
17:37We used to go to the beach when my dad would throw us in the water to protect my brother.
17:54When we finished swimming, we would go to the water slides.
17:58They would put us on their backs.
18:01My brother Ahmad and I would go play with him every day.
18:06My little brother Omar is still walking.
18:09I have to carry my dad on my friend's back.
18:13Omar.
18:14We had a good time.
18:16My uncle, my cousin, and I are all in this tent.
18:41I wake up in the sun, in the tent.
18:44I go outside and sit in the fridge.
18:47I feed the camels and the ants.
18:50And I walk.
18:52I walk barefoot.
18:54Everything is hard for me.
18:57The bathroom, the salt water, the skin.
19:12Before I came here, I liked to draw.
19:21I came here to draw.
19:24Now we go to school to learn Arabic and religion.
19:32We read the Quran and Arabic.
19:38How much?
19:40720.
19:41Give me 720.
19:56I wake up early.
19:58I fight.
19:59They wake up, they fight, and we go to school.
20:04When we wake up, we are hungry.
20:08We miss sweets.
20:10We miss sweets.
20:13Then we play hide and seek.
20:17And the police.
20:19The police and the police.
20:21Then we play.
20:34Excellent.
20:38Every day at night, there is an explosion.
20:41I hit it.
20:43It comes from the rockets.
20:46What do you do at night, Omar?
20:49What do you do at night?
20:52I take the ball.
20:54I take the ball.
20:57So you can jump inside me, right?
21:04We always play with them.
21:07I play with my children.
21:09My children and my brothers.
21:11We always play with them.
21:13They sit with us.
21:15We spend the evenings together.
21:17We let them play with the children around us.
21:20This is the fourth or fifth child.
21:23Is this the fifth child?
21:25Or is it Omar?
21:27The children disappeared.
21:29The children disappeared.
21:31The North is sick.
21:33The North is sick.
21:35I call the North sick.
21:48It's very different.
21:50It's the first time I live with people.
21:52It's a lot of things.
21:54It's the first time I cook in my life during the war.
21:56It's hard to sleep.
21:58It's hard to eat.
22:00I have to take care of the house.
22:02But thank God I can't.
22:04I try my best to take care of the house.
22:06My mother and father worked hard to build it.
22:08Eat the pizza.
22:10Yusra, do you want the olives?
22:12I'm eating with you.
22:14The fear and the search for safety
22:16is every second.
22:18Yesterday they told us to evacuate our area.
22:20Where should we go?
22:22I couldn't pack my things.
22:24We left without anything.
22:26Nothing.
22:31I came back to the hospital
22:33and it was still in my hands.
22:35My father always told me
22:37to teach people.
22:39The hospital is in Ahwaj.
22:41We are in Ahwaj.
22:43We have a lot of work to do.
22:45We have a shortage of medical staff.
22:47I'm a volunteer.
22:49I don't think I'll get paid.
22:51People come to me
22:53and tell me
22:55this is the son of a martyr.
22:57This is the only survivor.
23:00I film him
23:02and take him to the hospital.
23:04I do everything for him.
23:06He feels lost.
23:08He feels the people around him.
23:12Every time I go to the hospital
23:14I remember my family
23:16or our grandchildren who were martyred.
23:18I always thank God
23:20that I have something
23:22from my brother who was martyred.
23:24May he rest in peace.
23:29May he rest in peace.
23:54I live here with my brother
23:56and his daughter.
23:58We live on our own.
24:00We help each other.
24:02Someone cooks,
24:04someone picks firewood,
24:06someone fills water,
24:08someone works,
24:10someone brings food.
24:12The hardest thing I face
24:14is losing them.
24:16I think about them every day.
24:18I can't get them out of my head.
24:20My brother was martyred
24:22after seven years.
24:24He had two children.
24:26It was a big joy for him.
24:28When they found out
24:30that he was martyred,
24:32he was shocked.
24:34He didn't talk much
24:36with people.
24:38He would think a lot.
24:40He would sit and cry.
24:42I tried to get him out
24:44of that situation,
24:46but I couldn't.
24:48I felt like I was responsible
24:50for his death.
24:56I work for Hussam Al-Hatou
24:58in a gaming company.
25:00I'm a worker.
25:02I leave the house
25:04from 8.30 a.m.
25:06to a little before sunset.
25:08I earn 30 shekels a day.
25:10Most of the time,
25:12I buy canned food,
25:14cucumbers,
25:16tomatoes,
25:18cucumbers,
25:20tomatoes,
25:22cucumbers,
25:24cucumbers,
25:26thyme,
25:28bread.
25:30I go to the bakery
25:32and buy bread.
25:34I buy canned tuna
25:36and meat.
25:38I buy canned tuna and meat.
25:40I buy canned tuna and meat.
25:42I buy canned tuna and meat.
25:44My biggest fear
25:46is to cut my arm or leg.
25:48is to cut my arm or leg.
25:50I don't want anyone
25:52to harm me.
25:54I don't want anyone to harm me.
25:56I don't want anyone to harm me.
25:58I don't want anyone to harm me.
26:10I start by buying a bag of biscuits.
26:12I buy a bag of biscuits.
26:14I go to school.
26:16I have a lot of fun.
26:18I enjoy school.
26:20I enjoy school.
26:22I enjoy school.
26:24Everything is available
26:26at the camp.
26:28Everything is available
26:30at the camp.
26:32I can either learn to make
26:34or fly a drone,
26:36or I can learn to make
26:38a boom.
26:40a boom.
26:42a boom.
26:44a boom.
26:46I want to go back to my mom and dad.
26:56I want to go back to my mom and dad.
27:02What do you want to be when you grow up?
27:05I want to be a doctor.
27:08I want to be a doctor.
27:14When the war is over, I want to go to Egypt and play on the ground.
27:26I want to see my brothers and play with them.
27:30I want to go back to my mom and dad.
27:36I hope the war is over.
27:42I want to be a doctor.
27:51I can't live without Gaza. This is my home.
27:54Sometimes I pray for people to see what we've been through.
27:58Sometimes I say, no, it's a shame.
28:00Sometimes I say, they didn't shut up about what happened to us.
28:03I hope they live and see what we've been through.
28:05It's a feeling of contradiction between humanity and non-humanity.
28:09Despite everything that has happened, we try to preserve the feeling of humanity that is still inside of us.
28:14I want to get rid of this pile.
28:17There are three of my cousins who are still missing.
28:22We haven't found any of their bones.
28:27My biggest dream is to bury them in their homes.
28:31If they are buried in their homes, I might be able to ease their pain.
28:35I want to know where they are buried.
28:37I want the world to stop looking at me like that.
28:40Because no one can stop what is happening.
28:44The Arab rulers, the Arabs themselves, the foreigners.
28:48No one can stop it.
28:49We've been in the war for 11 months.
28:52Children and women are dying every day.
28:55They are being slaughtered.
28:57No one is able to move.
28:59Our spirits have become so low.
29:04Our spirits have become so low that it's not normal.