When the w*r
started on October 7th,
I was traveling around the world
presenting my last film
that talks about a w*r
Ive personally experienced
as a teenager in Iran.
As time passed,
images of the Palestinian civilian victims
became unbearable to me.
I decided to go to Cairo
in order to cross through Rafah.
But I couldnt,
because all the roads to Gaza were blocked
and I was denied access.
Instead, I started filming
Palestinian refugees
who were just arriving from Gaza.
Through one of them, I came to know Fatem.
Meeting her was like a mirror
held in front of me
that made me realize
how much both our lives
are conditioned by walls and wars.
We try to send bits of sound and pixels
across the waves
of an ocean of disconnection.
Each of our conversations
could be the last one
as Israeli bombs fall everywhere in Gaza
all the time.
So, every time we connect
and I can see her face,
it feels like a miracle.
Hello. Hi! Is that your daughter?
No.
- Shes my friend.
- Oh! Wait.
Let me turn the camera.
Ahlan! Whats your name?
- Hi!
- Hi! Hi, dear.
How are you?
Im Sahar, full of colors!
Im Sepideh.
- Sepideh, right?
- Yes.
I see her. Habibti!
Its okay.
-You know that Im Fatma.
- Yes, of course, yes.
Ahmad told me about you, and--
Im an independent filmmaker.
Uh, documentary and fiction.
Different types of films,
and I-- Im from--
And Im in Iran, but I live in France.
I came to Cairo to...
meet Ahmad and his family, you know,
and other Palestinians
whove arrived here in Cairo.
I wanted to come to Rafah,
but there is no way for me to come.
I mean, were blocked here.
Um, so, my English, its not excellent.
Its fine.
Where are you now, your position?
-Im in North Gaza.
- North Gaza.
You live alone, or youre in your family?
Yeah, me and my family, we are ten.
We live in one room.
And also sleep in one room.
Has your house been destroyed?
Uh, no, but its, uh...
Its partially destroyed, not totally.
Okay. But you had to leave.
- Its not safe
- Yes, yes.
We were forced to leave our
house, because its not safe.
-As you know.
- But where you are now.
Is it safer now?
-What?
- Where you live now.
Is it safer?
Its-- its mostly safe.
Nowhere is safe here in Gaza, you know.
Mm, yes.
And Im here,
in my friends house to, uh...
to have a good internet connection, yes,
because in our area,
theres no internet connection.
We wake up, uh, early.
Then we wait for the water to come to us.
Theres no water here, never...
our houses, and no electricity, and...
What do you eat? Food?
Ah, what do I eat? Um...
In the-- before one month,
before one month,
we mostly ate
everything animals eated.
So, we dont have, uh, the flour,
or bread, or the vegetables, or fruit,
or chocolate.
I know that chocolate,
its an extra thing.
But its important anyway!
Yeah, I said, the attacks,
the Israeli bombing.
Is it, uh, all the time,
or are there moments where its calm?
Um, yesterday, yesterday in Beit Lahia,
they bombed, uh, every time,
and the bombing...
...a huge expl*si*n,
and the expl*si*n happened
in front of my eyes.
I see the area
and the ground, uh...
How do you say that?
Shaking, yes, shaking in front of my eyes.
The air was...
It was a very huge expl*si*n.
How does it feel
being a Palestinian
in Gaza today?
- I feel proud.
- Proud?
I feel very proud,
because I feel very special.
We are strong and brave
and very important people in the world.
We get used to being like this
from when we are children.
Whatever they do to us,
however they try to destroy us,
or even if they k*ll us, we will be, uh...
laughing and living our lives,
whether they want it or not.
They cant defeat us.
They cant defeat us.
You believe in that?
Yes! Of course!
Because the strong--
Strongest thing?
What is the strongest thing?
That we have nothing to lose!
We have nothing to lose.
So, every day,
I talk to myself and I tell myself, uh...
"Thats life, Fatma. Live!"
Have you ever
traveled outside Gaza?
Oh, thats my hope. Thats my dream!
I didnt get out of my Gaza,
but I can dream...
of getting out.
One of the cities that I want
to visit is Tehran.
Ah!
What?
I cant go back to Iran myself.
Oh, why?
Political reasons.
Because if I go there,
they will arrest me.
But I wish you could go
to Tehran, I hope soon.
It makes--mmph.
Mmm.
Ah. Yes.
I have faith, and I have faith
that makes me sure
that everything is in Allahs hands.
You think this
suffering has a purpose?
The suffering is for--
Yes, Allah has--
Leish, leish. Why? Why?
Allah tells us in the Quran
everything that happens
on this earth, on this ground,
it happens for a purpose and for a reason.
Theres no-- theres nothing
that is without a reason.
I-- I wish
I would agree with you.
I dont know, I-I-I dont agree with you.
I-I have a...
I have an experience at this.
- How old are you?
- Im 24.
Twenty-four. Youre very young.
My daughters age.
I have a daughter your age.
- Shes 24.
- Youre like my mother.
-Im a photographer.
- Yes, I saw your photos.
I will show you a photograph,
I take it before one hour.
-Just a second.
- Yes.
Its a little bit bright.
- Just one moment...
- Yeah.
Uh, from one month,
from one month,
or three weeks,
I come out to the streets
and walking around the streets
and the area which they destroyed,
and I was
very shocked and very amazed
because what had happened.
And then I realized
that the voices that I-I-I was hear
in the previous six months...
Its this.
Its this destruction.
And its this building
that it was bombed
by the Israeli occupation.
So, I realized everything I was hearing.
Also, I have a recording
for the bombing.
I can share with--
I can share it with you.
Wait.
Oh.
Hi!
Hello!
How are you?
Im so happy to see you!
Tell me, tell me--
My connection is...
- Does my connection work?
- Well...
Im in the sixth floor, and...
...this is my neighborhood.
- Can you see it?
- Yes, of course.
Its a very
incredible destruction.
Yes, I see the destruction,
I see the buildings, yes.
Yes.
This is my neighborhood.
Its Al-Tuffah.
Ah, yes,
Al-Tuffah, yes, yes, yes.
Yes, in the north and the east of Gaza.
What?
Same neighborhood
as Ahmad's, Al-Tuffah?
Oh, yes, yes, Ahmad is there.
You said that they bombed
your neighbors house yesterday?
Yes, yes. And theres two...
two people k*lled.
Oh!
- Thats very bad.
- Thats the normal.
I dont know;
you know, the normality,
the sense of normality.
I feel very strange,
Im back to Paris now,
and, uh, when I talk to you, um,
what is normal for you, its so un-normal,
not normal, its abnormal, it so terrible,
and-and I feel weird
when you describe this to me
with this smile.
I feel you, because, uh, the people--
When-when you are living
in the same situation of me,
I hope you didnt live what I live, but...
When you live all things that, uh--us,
were just used to this,
but we dont used to this anymore.
Because we dont used to k*lling,
or bombing, or, uh, this suffering.
We used to-- to continue our lives.
-Can you understand me?
- Yes.
We used to, but we dont used to.
Can you-- can you understand me?
Well, I-I think I understand
that you are not used to it,
but you try to live your lives,
even during the w*r.
Yes, yes, thats--
thats exactly what I mean.
To describe what we are passing.
And we are live a very simple life,
and they want to take
this simple life from us. Why?
I-Im 24, and I dont live anything...
and I dont have anything that I want.
Because when you reach
to what you are want,
theres wall.
They put a wall instead of you.
So, you reach and dont reach.
You reach, but you dont take
what you are dreaming of.
Because of the borders and the, uh...
this occupation.
Its okay, continue.
Im waiting for you.
Um...
You are going to suffer with me now...
Because of the internet, but its okay.
Its okay.
So, I was talking about
how we are-- have a very simple life,
and they want to take this simple life...
Call over
Uh, the connection
is very bad here,
and I must go to my home,
and, uh, because--
because time is too late.
And we will talk tomorrow,
if you are-- have time,
and Im so happy to see you again.
Further north, theres
been a massive bombardment
in Gaza City.
Witnesses captured the moment
of an impact of an airstrike
in a residential area.
The health ministry says
at least 48 people
have been k*lled across Gaza
in the past day.
It makes the total number of people k*lled
to just over 34,000,
and that includes
more than 14,500 children.
- How are you?
- Im so fine, how are you, too?
Im good, Im good,
Im happy youre back.
- Ahlan, my friend.
- Ahlan, my dear.
What time is it now?
Its, um, 3:30?
Its three-- yes.
Half past three, okay.
We have the same time.
One-hour difference.
Im in my friends house
to get a good connection to talk to you.
Good. How do you
manage to charge the--
I mean, your telephone and computer?
Is it okay? Cause you said
you have no electricity.
Yes, I-I-Im charging it now.
Okay.
Can you see them?
Im checking this now.
For two months, just two months,
we cant go out of home
or, uh, go to long distances
because there was...
already.
- The sn*per.
- sn*per.
There was sn*pers everywhere.
Just sit in our homes
and didnt get out of it,
because if they see me, if they see us,
they will k*ll us.
And youre not afraid?
Afraid of what?
Well, you know.
The w*r, the k*lling.
I... I dont afraid from anything.
Is it possible
that you take the camera out
and show me a little bit
outside, how it is now?
Just a moment.
Um...
Here, theres the house
of my first cousin.
They bombed it before one month,
and they k*lled a whole family,
the whole family.
You can see the view?
Its the house by house.
Did you lose anybody in the w*r?
- Of your family?
- Yes, I lost 11...13 persons.
Thirteen people, you lost?
Yes. It was my dearest person,
and my grandmother and my uncle,
my... my, uh... there was very...
There was my dearest.
Of course.
Im so sorry.
No, its okay, its okay.
No, its not okay.
Oh!
- Who else did you lose?
- We always lose.
Can you tell me their names?
Can you tell me their names?
My uncles name is Saadi,
and his daughter, Sojoud,
and his son, Zeid,
and his wife, Bassima,
and my grandmother,
her name is Fatima also,
their grandchildren.
His name is Doaa,
and Basseema... and Bassma,
and Mohammad and Saadi.
And Hassan, Hassan
he was just one year... just.
I believe that...
if the occupation ends,
it will affect the conflicts
all over the world.
Not only in Palestine. Im sure...
that if the w*r ends in Palestine,
the w*r will end everywhere.
Im not sure
all the wars will end,
but I-I-I want to believe you.
I want to believe you.
Try.
I try, I try.
Do you pray sometimes?
Yes.
- You do?
- Im a Muslim.
And what do you pray for?
I pray for peace,
and this w*r to end, and uh, the...
and the occupation, uh, end.
Im quite skeptical, you know?
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
I dont-- I dont
believe in that, but, uh,
its interesting.
I mean, I guess it makes, um,
things easier for you,
to believe in something, to hold to it.
Yes!
I would ask God
why he put this w*r in front of you.
If I were you, I would ask him.
I-I feel you, and I understand
these words from you.
Wait. I need
to open the door for my cat.
- Just a second.
- Okay!
I like cats!
Miss Narenj! Come on in!
Here you are!
Oop!
You told me that you might be able
to read me a poem,
of one of your poems, right?
Uh, yes, yes.
Do you have one ready?
Just one minute.
Ready.
"The Man Who Wore His Eyes."
I dont have a way
To recognize Two mysterious eyes
And to believe
I dont have a clear Unique story
That a stranger Could believe in
And make his own
I have no perfect Physical characteristics
To fly defying gravity
And to believe
Perhaps Ill begin my dying
Now
Before the man standing In front of me
Readies his sn*per r*fle
So he can end it So I can end
Silence
Are you a fish?
I did not respond When the sea asked me
And I did not know
Where these crows came from
That fell upon my flesh
Anyway, would it have been
Reasonable even if I said yes
For these crows To devour a fish?
I passed through Without passing through
My death passed through me
A sn*pers b*llet Passed through me
And I became an angel
In the eyes of a city
Immense Greater than my dreams
Greater than this city
I became a poet-saint
In the eyes of a forest
A hermit
Taking a cypress As an offering
An Orange hell In the eyes of a r*fle
And I was another universe
And in the end I became a world apart
In the eyes of God
But in the end I am a fish
That is what the sn*per saw
And that is what I was looking for
On the face of the man
Who was wearing my eyes
And that I did not find
As I fluttered my gills
And, I admit I lied
When I said That death is hideous
Death is delicious
But none of us Has ever tasted its flavor
Hamas has had the deal
for about four days now,
and there have been-- since yesterday,
we were expected a response
yesterday, then tonight,
and now, it seems that it could still be
a couple of days away.
It looks like Yahya Sinwar,
the leader of Hamas,
is questioning certain things
in the deal, clarifying,
and potentially may even
come back with amendments.
Its-- its not clear at the moment.
What we do know is that there are
two very opposing points of demands,
is that Hamas says it will only negotiate
if there is a full
cessation of hostilities,
meaning an end to the w*r,
and its not negotiating on that,
and the Israeli prime minister says,
"Theres not gonna be an end to the w*r,
and we are going
into Rafah, whatever happens."
So, publicly, these are two opposing sides
that are impossible, really,
to reconcile. What is--
- Hi.
- Hi, habibti.
You look good! You look good.
How are you?
Im okay. Im-- Im with you.
You know, uh, Canada is six hours...
no, seven hours behind you, so...
Youre in France or Canada?
Yes-- yes, Im in Canada.
I showed my film yesterday,
and I will show it again today, tonight.
And, uh, it was really nice,
it was really nice.
I talked about-- when I was presenting,
I talked about, um,
the Iranian artists
and people who are fighting in Iran,
the one who has been condemned to death.
And also, I talked about Palestine,
and people were very moved, the audience.
It doesnt help you--
Thats very nice,
that you are talking about us.
Its the first time
Im seeing your eyes,
because you dont have glasses.
Um, you have brown eyes, right?
- Um, its green.
Green! Thats why-- okay, okay.
Ah! Whos that?
I see someone there.
- Who is-- hello.
- Thats my brother.
Hello. Greetings to you.
- Hes very shy.
- What is his name?
- Muhannad.
- Muhannad? Okay.
How are you doing?
Im fine, thanks.
He have, uh, 20 years old.
The planes are gone?
I dont hear the airplanes now.
The sound is so far,
but theyre still here.
They cannot-- they cannot be gone.
They are here 24 hours, seven days.
About the ceasefire,
it was really...
a desperate situation,
because I really believed in it as well.
Everybody was so excited, um, about the...
We are, too!
We go to the roof,
and we have been just celebrating.
All of the city, it was celebrating.
Uh, they say, "Yaa!",
and they were so happy.
Yes. And also,
this thing that, you know,
in Rafah, they-they-they threw
papers from the airplanes
to tell people in Rafah to leave
and to go to Khan Yunis.
Do they do that?
They are called manasheer, meaning papers.
They tell us to get out from our homes.
And b*mb it!
Thats very...
Thats a very, uh, silly thing.
This building-- this, this--
Its, uh, from the, uh... Can you see it?
Yes.
This.
Its in the, um, basic ,
so, this will drop.
No one lives here, or here,
or here, or here, or there.
Or there. Theres no one.
There are two families besides us.
Its, uh...
- What is it?
- The lady.
- Im talking!
- Just to see her.
What?
What?
What does he want?
This is the first time
he saw a woman like you,
a foreign woman.
Its okay.
Im a friend.
Im a friend, tell him.
My internet...
My internet is very poor.
The internet problem,
we also have the same in Iran.
The internet. I-I cant talk to my mother.
Because theres no-- the connection.
The regime does the same.
They cut the internet in Iran.
So, Iranians from outside and
inside, like me and my mother,
we cant talk.
- We can just text messages.
- Oh!
Yeah, its the same thing.
You cant hear her or listen her voice?
Its very difficult,
if you dont have a VPN.
It doesnt work,
and my mother doesnt have it.
I-I didnt hear it, it was cut.
I say, I dream...
to study outside of Gaza,
photography and lighting.
Because I feel I cant touch
the rest of the world
outside Gaza.
And Im sure that its there.
The world out of Gaza,
because we are in a box...
We just see the box!
But we cant know
what is going on outside,
or in the other, uh, cities out of Gaza.
Yes, I mean, ah, what to say?
This has to finish, and then,
maybe we get you out of Gaza.
Listen, take care,
and send me the images as soon as you can,
and then, we will talk tomorrow,
or whenever you can.
- Thank you; I will.
- Please keep up!
Okay!
The army is entering Rafah...
and they are in the...
are crossing Rafah.
I dont know how
we will continue our lives.
Its very hard, whats happening.
Its very hard.
I dont know if this will end or not.
Or when it...
all of this will end, but...
I feel Im so tired.
Because all... all of whats happening,
Im very...
empty, and very...
tragedy, and...
not true, around, aroundly, or...
I dont know what is
the suitable word, but...
I hoped the ceasefire
apply on the few hours come.
But it, uh, it failed.
Yesterday, it failed.
They-- they told us that its failed.
But I hope that Israel
responds to us or to Hamas
and agree about the ceasefire.
Everything okay? I dont know.
Not everything okay.
Um, my friend that, uh,
my friend that, I am going to her house
to open my internet.
His neighbor is bombed this morning
on 5 a.m., and, uh...
and he and his son
and daughter, they are k*lled.
I think the w*r start again.
An operation on Rafah that
the Israeli defense minister
is threatening to pursue
if the truce agreement doesnt guarantee
the return of the hostages.
After a moment of hope
on Monday, the deal fell apart.
There will be negotiations.
An Israeli delegation is in Cairo, Egypt.
The last chance, according
to Hamas, to free the hostages.
The police were called into the Sorbonne.
Several hundred protesters
had occupied a hall...
Hi! Im happy you can connect.
Hello... good morning.
This is my dad.
Yes! Nice to meet you!
Hes asking you
when this w*r will end.
What? He asked me
when this will end?
When this w*r will end.
We are all asking this.
This is-- we are
facing crazy people!
They are majnoun.
I dont know.
I think it will end if, uh...
the Americans finally decide to...
not to back Israel.
I think, I dont know.
This is my brother.
Hello. Hey!
How are you?
Fine, thanks.
How old is he?
He is, uh, 15.
What is he doing with his time?
He is, uh...
Hold the water-- bring the water to us
and bring the wood
for us to make the fire and cook
and do our days.
Okay. And what
about your older brother?
- The second one?
- They do the same.
- They do the same?
- They do the same.
Okay. I saw some images
that they are also throwing
phosphorus bombs.
Theres phosphorus in all of Gaza.
Have you ever
had that experience
of a phosphor b*mb?
You?
I see... I see, uh, I see
the phosphor when it was...
When I was young... younger than this,
when they bombed Jabalia.
When they were, uh...
uh, drop it on Jabalia,
and I see this in front of my eyes.
I cannot, uh...
I cannot forget this from my head.
Leaving Gaza...
You dont want to leave Gaza?
No, I dont want. I...
I want to travel
around the world. But, uh...
In the end, come back to Gaza.
Yes...
- Do you understand my words?
- Yes.
Yes, I do understand.
Im thinking about your words.
I do understand, yes.
At some point...
forty years ago, its a long time ago,
I decided to leave my country, you know?
Uh, I made this decision, I was 18.
I was banned from studying,
I couldnt do anything.
And I decided to leave, but...
I remember now, when I think back,
I was thinking,
"I will come back
in six months, in a year."
But it never really happened.
I mean, when you leave, your life changes.
- Its never the same.
- Yes, because you find...
I didnt hear it.
"I will feel..."
What did you say?
Again...
Um... I forgot what I say!
Is it very chaotic
in your head now?
Yes... yes.
- Worries?
- I feel like, uh...
my head is full of, uh...
ideas and full of words and whispers.
Um, I was dream about my grandfather...
my uncle that has died...
I was dream about...
They were waiting at school, in my school.
Take my grandmas hand
as she walked, uh...
uh, taking my hand.
And, uh, we walked.
Her life, in her last days
before she died...
she was, uh...
She was always calling me and tell me,
"No. No, Fatma. Please just stay with me.
After two weeks...
...they k*lled her.
I cant see there, uh,
before they buried her.
Aw.
Im sorry.
- Im sorry.
- No, I am sorry.
Im sorry. I ask you hard questions.
- Sorry. Sorry, dear.
- No, its okay.
I was very ... very much.
I went to the house that is destroyed.
- Okay.
- Bombed...
I will... I will send you
the picture of the house.
- Okay.
- We cannot find anything.
Except... except the things that flied.
We find my... my, uh...
...my wife of uncle,
we found her head in another street.
We find just her head.
No.
Yes, its separated from her body.
They found it in the other street.
So... very hard thing.
I dont even know
if they buried her or not.
So we cannot say goodbye to them.
Go...
Go without any goodbyes.
Just like this.
Your grandma... did she, um,
sing lullabies for you?
You know what a lullaby is?
- What is a lullaby?
- Lullaby is lalaei...
- Like that.
- No, I dont know that.
No?
You know, the rhymes
that they sing to children.
She used to do this move on my back.
Okay.
To sleep.
Okay.
Yes.
I will be travelling
in a couple of hours,
I fly to Paris.
And then tomorrow at noon,
I fly to Morocco.
- To Maghreb.
- Oh, thats very great!
This life... I want this life!
You fly everywhere.
Israel will not allow Hamas
to return to rule in Gaza.
We will not allow them
to rebuild their military capabilities
and continue the project of destroying us.
Israel will not approve any proposal
that constitutes a threat to
Israels security and future.
For that reason,
I have ordered our delegation
that went to Cairo,
to continue to insist on our demands
to guarantee our security.
In parallel, we will continue
our w*r against Hamas.
Our entry into Rafah
is a very important step.
Our army is on its way
to destroy the remainder
of their capabilities.
And border officials on both sides
have been asked to leave the area.
And aid agencies are warning
that the interruption
of aid entry will halt
what is this critical
humanitarian response
across the entire Gaza strip.
Israel is also targeting
Rafah with airstrikes,
overnight and into this morning,
k*lling at least 23.
And I think its important to know
that Rafah has been hit with airstrikes
for days and weeks now,
k*lling hundreds of people,
many residents have now
been told to evacuate.
Oh, hi... How are you?
Im fine, how are you?
Okay. Im fine, Im fine.
- Im happy to see you again.
- Me too.
Its been quite a few days!
Yes.
- How are you?
- Im okay.
Wait a second, Im gonna
put the sound louder.
I hope it works this time...
- Okay.
- Yes!
I always forget to do this before...
Ah, white scarf!
- Yes.
- It changes your face a lot!
Yeah, its gray.
So how are things?
Tell me a little bit...
Its a mess, no?
Yes, its a very messy situation.
Uh, the Israeli army
is in the neighborhood
that is next to us.
So, they are playing.
Playing and destroying buildings
and breaking everything that--
Do you... do you understand what I mean?
No, it... it cuts all the time.
Im not sure I understood you.
I said that if we dont do
what were doing now,
when will we do this?
When will we, uh, photograph this w*r...
...take pictures or, um...
document all the suffering?
And who will do this?
Do you want to come out?
Uh, go out...
I think my Gaza needs me in this time.
Um...
Its hard,
and its a very difficult decision.
Um...
- What?
- Nothing.
Im just looking at you.
Today, I just took photos
to Al Andonisi hospital.
Okay.
Its... It was burned...
It was pretty burned.
The second and third floor,
it was totally burnt.
So it was, uh, like...
Well, you feel like you are in a film.
My cat is coming,
let me open the door.
I come back. Okay?
Just one second.
Narenj, Im coming.
Narenj...
Oh oh... wait a minute.
Im coming. What shall I do with you two?
Come on in! I keep calling you,
but then you never come!
What do you want? You...
My monkey face... Lets go.
Come on.
Pishi, wait a second.
Wait... Just a tiny moment.
Look...
Oh, hes cute!
- Very cute!
- Yes.
On the night...
At the 6th of October...
I was in a caf.
And just took the shekel note
and looked at it.
So, I just see woman...
...that they copy in the paper.
Just... I was just asking myself...
This money is Israeli money.
Why they are stealing even our money?
Mm-hm.
And our...
uh...
our... our traditions
and our nation and our everything.
Because they... I think
they want to steal everything.
From, uh... from the tiny
things to the huge things.
Like the... like money and, uh,
eat... and foods and sweets
and everything.
They are steal falafels,
and they... they told the world
that hummus and falafel,
its from their tradition.
But its from our tradition.
Its a Palestinian...
Its a Palestinian food!
Are you drinking coffee?
Yes, Arabic coffee.
Its from the market
and, uh, make it by our hands.
Its the only thing that you can, uh,
you can drink and imagine
that life makes sense.
When we...
When we talk about the coffee,
I think of Mahmoud Darwish of course!
Yes, yes, theres a connection
of coffee with Mahmoud.
Yes, I do.
"With due regard
to internationally accepted norms
and principles of Human Rights
and the rule of law."
End of quote.
The court recalls
that considered in its whole opinion
that the legitimate rights
of the Palestinian people,
recognized in the Oslo Accords,
includes the right to self-determination.
The court observes
that in interpreting the Oslo Accords,
its necessary to take
into account Article 47
of the fourth Geneva Convention,
which provides that
the protected population
shall not be deprived
of the benefits of the convention,
and I quote,
"By any agreement concluded
between the authorities
of the occupied territories
and the occupying power,"
end of quote,
with its obligations
under international law.
In particular,
the court analysis examines in terms
the question of the prolonged occupation
as well as the policy of settlement,
the annexation of
the Palestinian territories,
occupied since 1967,
and its adoption of related legislation
and measures that are
allegedly discriminatory.
Prevent the
cross-border exchange of fire
from becoming a wider w*r
that would bring with it
yet more suffering.
Just a minute, .
I will close the door.
I just closed the door,
because the wind is terrible.
Sorry, it makes some noise.
Okay.
Tell me how it was,
describe to me, um...
On October 7th, what were you doing,
and how did things start?
Do you remember clearly?
Yes, I remember.
So, at 7:00 a.m.,
I just woke up
from my... my deep sleeping.
And then I open my window
and I see a very huge number
of white lines in the sky.
- Mm-hm.
- Um...
First of the time,
I didnt, uh,
understand what was happening.
I just told myself that its something...
Like, uh...
Its like everywhere.
But this time, it was different.
Ah, okay.
You mean you didnt know
who started the w*r.
Yes, yes, we didnt know
who had started the w*r.
Now that you look back,
its eight, nine months later,
how do you feel about that moment?
Because its ambivalent, right?
It would be much easier
if I could say it in Arabic.
Okay, I will try
to describe it in English.
I cant, uh, exactly...
how or what I feel about 7th of October,
or when I...
Oh. You know.
You can hear this sound?
Its the sound of Apache.
Sound of what?
A sound of an Apache.
Apache. Ah, the helicopter?
- Okay.
- Yes.
Okay.
So, uh, when I...
What do they use it for?
They k*lled us!
No, I mean they sh**t from...
with the Apaches they sh**t?
- Yes.
- Oh.
When I... when I go back and, uh,
think about what has happened
7th of October,
we showed the world that...
that... that even if we havent
weapons or bombs...
or enough military equipment, uh,
we can fight for our land,
and we can, uh, still resistance.
I just dont want to talk about it,
because when I think about it,
like, its just a moment
and I will get depressed.
Um, about the food situation,
since last night,
you wrote, for the first time,
this word "starvation."
Here you can die by bombing.
Or, uh, or fear.
Or starvation.
You have very...
Have many, many options to die here
in the south of Gaza.
So, I think this starvation, its, uh...
Its very difficult on us and very hard.
We have nothing to eat.
When your brother asks your mom,
"What will we eat now, or today?"
And she told him, "Well get nothing,
because theres nothing to eat."
We didnt even think of this,
even in our dreams.
But this is happening.
This is happening
We are starving.
I just sit with a-a girl,
have just eight years.
And I asked her,
"What do you want from life?"
And she told me, "I want to die."
People are dying, we know that for sure.
And were talking about peoples lives.
A bit earlier today,
several thousand people,
gathered in front of
the UNICEF office in Tel Aviv
to make the UN put pressure
to free the child hostages.
There are 35 child hostages,
including a baby
who was born in captivity.
Theyre our children,
belong to our families, our blood.
Even if were not relatives,
we all form a big family
and have to fight together.
According to Washington,
a deal is very close
to free several dozens of hostages.
Mr. President, a deal about
the hostages, is it close?
I think so, but Im not ready
to talk about it.
- Do you believe it?
- Yes.
I feel like Im...
Im separated from things.
Yes.
Wait a second, let me just, um, uh,
close the window as well.
One second.
- What?
- One second, one second.
We came to... we came to Italy...
Im in Italy now. In Florence.
One of my dreams...
One of my dreams is to travel to Rome.
Ah.
- Okay.
- Travel to the Vatican.
If you come...
I have friends. I can send you
to my friends in Rome.
Yes, I wanted to visit one museum.
Yeah. Whats wrong
with your hijab?
Youre just doing this all the time.
What is it?
Its very messy.
No, its fine.
You want to redo it?
- You want to redo it?
- What?
You want to put it again?
No, no, its okay.
Its okay.
I havent... Ive never seen
your hair, you know?
Yes, because youre recording.
Yes, I know.
So, its, uh... I cannot, uh...
make you see it, but, uh,
when we... when we be alone, I can.
- Yes.
- Ill let you see it,
let you see.
When did you start
wearing it... wearing hijab?
At what age?
Um, 13.
Thirteen? Okay.
Yes.
Because you wanted
or because the society,
um, kind of imposes?
No, its because our religion,
and because I was...
tall and I... I was looking
bigger than my age.
Ah.
Yes.
So my mom was told me, "This is better.
This is for you."
And, uh, to be always protect.
So... yes.
But are there girls
who dont wear hijab in Palestine?
Or...
- I dont see any...
- Yes, there are lots of them.
Okay.
Theres a lot of girls
that dont wear hijab.
Okay.
Because most of the ones
I see in the photos, um,
or films, they all wear hijab,
thats why I was wondering.
Uh, its, uh, its different...
different from person to person
and family to family.
Okay.
Have you lost weight because of the food?
Yes, of course.
Of course.
Now I...
you... you see my...
my mind is very, uh, messy,
and I have no focus,
because I have no healthy food,
or good food even,
so I feel that I cant even, um...
stand up.
You know?
And I cant talk even.
Every day I told my mom,
"I want a chicken."
I hope or I wish if we had just chicken,
because, uh, we didnt
eat it for nine months.
We met the first time
I think two months ago,
and it was already
seven months of the w*r.
And you told me
you had chicken once, I think.
I... I was watching the...
Now, thats my biggest dream!
To have one chicken and one chocolate.
Yes, I told my friend in the South...
"Just send me one chocolate,
one chocolate."
I miss... I miss everything,
I miss my life.
I miss my... the food
that was my mom cooked.
The chocolate and Nescaf and coffee.
Everything.
I hear the drones, flying over.
- The drones?
- Yes, the planes, the airplanes.
- Drone, yes.
- The door?
- No, drone... drone.
- What about it?
No, nothing! Its... I hear it.
Why did they start attacking
Al-Shujaiyya all of a sudden?
Why?
What?
Why Al-Shujaiyya
all of a sudden?
We dont know.
Theres no reason... reason
for anything that they do.
Yes, they do everything
to destroy our city.
And, uh,
to erase the remains from our mind.
Al-Shujaiyya is in front of me.
There to there.
Um, you see the burn?
The... the places that burned?
I dont... I... I dont know if you...
The smoke, yes,
I can see the smoke.
Yes, the black smoke here.
Mm-hm.
Yes.
That... there the army.
According to the United Nations,
hospital and medical facilities
have been attacked more than 600 times.
Schools attacked more than 200.
Hundreds of houses of worship destroyed.
And 169 UN facilities have been attacked.
Thats not highlighted in the report.
But they argue the law
does not have to be invoked,
because Israel is investigating.
Passed away peacefully
this afternoon
at the age of 93.
The world of baseball
has been paying tribute
to one of its all-time greats.
Willie Mays has died at the age of 93.
Twenty-four time All-Star,
his most talked about career highlight
became known simply as The Catch...
- Hi.
- Hi.
Wow, Look at you!
I want to wear something.
Where are you? What happened?
Im waiting... Im waiting
for you to get ready.
So...
Im sorry that in the previous period...
In the last few days, ...
No problem, no problem.
Im sorry, so...
But, uh...
Where are you now? In your shelter?
Ah. You are...
Where are you? At your shelter?
Where are you now?
Do you hear me?
Can you hear me?
- Im in my shelter.
- Okay.
The news are very bad. How are things?
How are... how are things?
Theyre bombing Jabalia, right?
Connection is very poor...
I said theyre bombing
near your place, right?
I cant hear you.
You cant see me?
Um, this is our room.
Who is there now with you?
Everybody? All your family?
Its Fatem!
- She all right?
- Shes fine.
We were worried... we were
really worried about you!
Sleeping.
- This is my stuff.
- Okay.
This is my everything...
- This is your...
- Its a mess.
- Its a mess.
- Its okay.
But where... where are the others?
Your family? Where are they?
Yes.
Are you alone?
- Hi.
- Ah, much better!
No, not much better.
Hm.
Like children
I dream of swings
Like children
I dream of swings
They heard me sing
And said it must be
The song of the wind
They heard me sing
And said it must be
The song of the wind
Oh, sweet breeze
My heart is ill
Oh, sweet breeze
My heart is ill
And my heart and my eyes
Have seen so much And yet so little
And my heart and my eyes
Have seen so much And yet so little
Oh, sweet breeze
My heart is ill
If there is some room
Left in the heart
If there is room left
Keep a little room
- Hi.
- Hi.
Where are you now?
Oh, I know. I know. Your friends house!
The wall behind you.
Its almost sunset, no?
- Yes.
- Mm.
- The nice...
- Its the golden hour.
- What?
- I call this the golden hour.
Yes, it is the golden hour.
Yes.
Its beautiful for photography,
if you could go out.
Yes.
Very nice light, yes.
And the light is nice on your face
when youre in the sun.
- Yes.
- You go back a bit.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
It looks a little bit like a painting.
Looks like a painting on your face.
Yes, yes, yeah.
Tell me
about the song you sent me.
Its a very nice one.
Yes, you... you heard it?
Yes, of course. Immediately.
Very nice. I liked it.
Yes, I did it for two years.
I had a guitar, but I bought it.
- You sold it.
- I sell it.
- What did you do?
- For my laptop.
To... to buy a laptop.
But do you sing...
to sing still, to keep singing?
Is it a serious thing for you?
Uh, no.
No.
I sing for me, and for my friends,
and, uh, for my close people.
But its a hobby?
- Yes.
- Okay.
So the serious thing is what?
Photography and...
Photography more,
because... this is my world.
I find myself in this.
Before the w*r, I just
take the beautiful photos
for beautiful people,
for beautiful places.
But now you can see this picture.
It... it contains for just black,
the sadness and destruction.
But Im trying to find
some life in this world,
in this death.
They bombed all the night.
Last night, they bombed all the night.
And they us.
How? Missiles
from tanks, shelling?
- What kind of...
- No, its, uh, missiles.
- Missiles.
- ...
Yes, and F-16... and F-16s.
F-16? You mean
the airplane, they throw bombs?
Yes, yes, yes.
Aw.
Is there a hospital still working there?
Because I heard that, um,
al-Aqsa is also stopping.
There is just one hospital.
Yeah.
Al-Maamadani.
Uh, its the only hospital here.
Oh.
Terrible, yes?
It is. Its just...
Yes.
This is my niece of my friend.
Sahar! This is Sahar!
Yes, I know her.
I met her the first day.
Ahlan Sahar... habibti...
I love you.
How are you?
Yes, me too... I love you.
Shes four, right? Shes four years old?
- Yes.
- Yeah, I remember.
She was there the first time we talked.
This is Hussam!
I will take him
as a husband to my daughter!
Oh, baby...
- I love them.
Oh, yes, of course.
You were distributing food today, right?
Oh, yes, yes.
You did it?
We... we made the rice.
And, uh, distributed it, uh,
for people in the schools and...
How many people
did you feed today?
- Ah, yes, one thousand.
- Wow...
Thats huge!
Have you eaten yourself?
Eat? No, no.
No?
No, but we...
my friend made me some, uh, noodles,
some IndoMie, we call it IndoMie.
- And this is the first time.
- Okay.
I will... Im going to let you
go and eat now,
because you have to eat also!
Nutritional and medical supply
for 10,000 children.
We had all the approvals.
We were going to Gaza City
from Deir al-Balah and then from here.
Uh, its basically
a 40-kilometer round trip.
It took 13 hours,
and we spent eight of those
around check-points,
arguing around paperwork,
was it a truck, was it a van.
All sorts of he said, she said.
The reality is this truck
was then denied access.
So those 10,000 children
did not get that aid.
Now UNICEF will go back again,
but its not as easy
as returning the next day.
Because of how dangerous
this is a place to operate,
remembering Israel as the occupying power
has the legal responsibility
to facilitate that aid,
we must have armored vehicles
with our convoys, right?
UNICEF also does... does sanitation,
we do water, we do...
- Hi, Sepideh.
- Hi.
Hi, hi, hi, dear.
Where are you?
Im in the home.
At your house?
No.
Yes?
When did you get back, this morning?
You went back home?
Yesterday.
Today...
Uh, yes, yesterday.
The same time.
Okay.
Im sorry, dear, oh.
Yes.
And is the bombing still on?
Or, no, its stopped?
Yes, theres a lot of bombing.
My friend Mona, you know her...
Yes, yes, I know.
Uh, the army is in her area.
Yeah.
She cannot go out or...
do anything, or evacuate her house.
They told us, "Evacuate to the west."
And we evacuated.
- Who told you to...
- And they bombed us.
- What?
- How they tell you to evacuate?
With pamphlets?
Yes, and calls.
I just see all the people evacuating
and run and walking.
So, we evacuated and go to the west.
To al-Sanaa.
We evacuated from al-Tuffah,
the day before yesterday.
Mm-hm.
Evacuated from al-Sanaa
yesterday, at 4:00 a.m.
- But bombing goes on?
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- Yes.
-You can hear that.
- Yes, I heard it.
They say theyre negotiating in Cairo,
but they are still bombing.
I dont understand the logic, really.
This is desperate. Its terrible.
I...
-Yes.
- Ah.
I cannot imagine
that I lived through this.
The tanks were behind us.
You mean they were
following you with the tanks?
I dont understand.
No.
They were stopped at the...
At the head of street.
And we continued walking.
We left everything there.
Our clothes, and our food,
the car, everything.
Aw.
We have nothing to eat.
Oh, dear.
Ugh.
- Mm.
- Yes.
Do you keep
your camera with yourself,
when you move?
Yes.
Yes.
Oh.
Youre on the beach?
No, not on the beach.
Im in a house, but near the sea.
Ah, ah, ah.
Good.
We went to the sea
this morning, but...
- I wish you could...
- Thats great.
Yeah, it is nice, its nice.
Its quite a...
How can I say it?
It feels strange, because I think of you,
and I know what hardship youre in.
And then... life goes on here.
And its strange.
Yes, I can... I can feel you.
I can imagine these, uh, these things.
I mean,
plus the thing is that I...
Yeah. I know I cant do anything.
Thats the worst part, that...
It seems ridiculous,
when I send you messages.
I know I cant do
anything for you from here.
You are here beside me and thats enough.
I am...
- I am.
- Yeah.
They felt that the
Israeli forces are trying to...
to, like, empty all of the Gaza strip,
and the Gaza, the Gaza City, sorry,
and the Gaza City is a danger zone.
And other Palestinians chose to stay
because let me remind you
that those Palestinians
decided to stay since day one,
since the first week of w*r.
And they went through severe starvation,
severe a*tillery shelling,
ground invasion,
and also Israeli airstrikes.
So, those Palestinians chose
to stay in the Gaza City and...
So, tell me, how is everything?
How is everybody?
Yeah, its were tired, and okay.
Yeah?
Yes, yes, uh...
Its the third day.
No, I dont think so.
- Im fine.
- I hear the planes now again.
And the water?
Because I heard the water
is contaminated, not clean, no?
Yes, its not clean anymore.
So, what do you do?
How do you find drinking water?
- You buy the water?
- We bought it.
Where do you get
money from to buy water?
What is this?
Now, you know, the price
of one cigarette...
its almost 50 dollars.
No.
- Fifty dollars?
- Really.
- No.
- $50.
- What happened?
- New attack.
- Its a bombing.
- Oh, my...
This was really scary!
Its so close!
- That was very loud.
- Yes.
Its very close.
- You can see it?
- Yes, yes, I saw it.
Watch it.
Oh.
I dont know where is that.
Ah.
Its a huge destruction.
Its a huge bombing.
I will take a photo. Just a minute.
Im shaking.
Is it the building
that was shaking or because...
- Yes.
- Oh.
So, now you can...
Im always thinking of you
because its such a random...
stupidly random bombing, attacking.
I think there will be...
But its okay.
What do you do
when its a case like that?
Do you prefer to stay up,
upstairs or go downstairs?
How do you...
-You go down.
- You go down?
We cannot stay up.
Because at these moments, we feel some...
If you hear my voice,
you will hear the sound of airplanes.
They are flying in the sky and its...
The sky is fully of the airplanes and...
Before, just five moments,
they bombed a building
or I think a house.
Um...
And every second you walk in the street,
you put your soul on your hands and walk.
Hi, Sepideh, I want
to tell you about Mahasen.
She was my friend, my dear friend.
She was 31 years old.
She was k*lled in Tel al-Zaatar
by the Israeli forces,
and this makes me very sad.
The rest of her family was injured.
So they displaced to Al Shate
from Jabalia.
Mahasen was...
a very talented artist.
She wanted the world
to know her and her art.
She got that...
But, unfortunately, after her death.
And, um, thats it.
Troops ordered
residents nearby to leave,
before destroying the building.
And armed confrontations have broken out
between Israeli forces
and Palestinian groups
in the city of Al-Bireh
in the occupied West Bank.
Soldiers also raided Hebron,
Jenin, Nablus, and Bethlehem
as well as several villages.
The Israeli military says
one soldier has been k*lled
and another injured...
Oh, wow, its very dark.
- Let me see.
- Yeah.
I cant see your face.
How are you doing? How are you?
- I missed you so much!
- Yeah, me too.
Me too, really.
Ive been calling and it doesnt work.
Its too dark, theres no light.
Yes. Wait, wait.
Let me see if I can put
more light on the telephone.
I dont know what you did,
but this is good.
I opened a web page.
Okay.
All right, okay.
Tell me something else...
What do people think about Sinwar?
Yahya Sinwar is being elected
as the head of Hamas.
What do you think?
I told my friends,
we deserved a leader like this!
Because I think its like a joke.
Lots of people here, uh, dont like this.
They didnt like this election.
So, they are refusing Sinwar.
To choose a person
that we didnt see him...
from, uh...
since the 7th of October.
- So, its a very strange thing.
- Hes not popular then?
Hes not popular?
Yes, yes.
Because Sinwar, now,
is really in the line
of the Iranian government, regime.
Because they dont want peace.
They want w*r.
Theyre like Netanyahu.
They want the same thing.
In different ways, but you know?
Yes, but I think they want
to show that were strong,
we have a leader that can defend you.
When I was a child,
we were against the Shah, you know?
I mean my family was.
And then the revolution happened.
We thought it would be something good.
But it became worse,
and its been going on
for 45 years, you know?
- Oh, my God.
- Yeah.
And it keeps coming back.
Every time you think theres
something better happening,
it gets worse.
And so, people in Iran, also,
they say the same thing.
They keep losing hope, meaning...
thinking that fighting has no...
theres no purpose to fight,
I mean, because...
Theres like, what, third generation,
fourth generation of people who lose...
people in their family, who get k*lled.
Thats the problem.
Thats the problem.
Theres a quote in a film.
Its name is Shawshank Redemption.
- Have you seen it?
- No.
Ah, you must see it. You must...
Yes, theres a quote in it...
It talks about hope.
The prisoner, uh, said...
A prisoner said, "Hope is
a very dangerous thing."
It is, but its
necessary also to live.
Yesterday, they bombed a school.
It was as a shelter.
Used as a shelter.
- you know?
- Yes.
The people were saying that prayer
when they bombed them.
But at these moments,
I just want to go and capture everything,
and publish everything, so...
But, of course, we are afraid
of retarget the place.
-You know?
- Yes, I understand.
And I ask myself this question,
but, of course, you have
to document it also, you know?
Its always in these
w*r situations where you...
Its hard to choose what to take
and what not to take.
You know?
Yes.
- Do you think about that?
- And publish everything.
I think, when I am...
at, like, these places...
I thought there is some voice in my head
that tells me, "Fatma, capture."
And even decide.
You can keep it, or delete it.
Obviously, you cant publish everything.
But I think I publish the photos
that can touch the people.
And let the people face the truth.
The truth of the w*r, you know?
Yes.
- I...
- Are you still here?
And in the western provinces
of Ilam and Khuzistan.
Tehran says two military
personnel were k*lled,
but the damage was limited.
Israeli officials say
their attack was in response
to Iranian m*ssile strikes,
earlier this month.
The Israel Defense Forces
has fulfilled its mission.
If the regime in Iran
were to make the mistake
of beginning a new round of escalation,
we will be obligated to respond.
Our message is clear.
All those who threaten the state of Israel
and seek to drag the region into wider...
...rockets towards Israel
in what it says is
the first phase of retaliation
follows the assassination of Fuad Shukr,
a top Hezbollah military commander
in Beirut last month.
Earlier, Israel conducted
what it described
as preemptive strikes on Hezbollah
in Southern Lebanon.
The military says that it hit thousands
of rocket launches aimed at Israel.
Happy to see you!
Im happy, too.
So, how are things?
Tell me.
Um, good.
Before, just 15 minutes...
Yeah.
...they bombed near us.
Oh, no.
Come on!
You say its good,
I think you have a good news!
Oh, my God!
Oh.
I was listening to your, um,
one of the first conversations we had had.
Theres something that you said.
You said, "When you walk on the streets,
you put your soul
on your hand and you walk."
Yes, yes.
And I was thinking of that.
When I get, when I got out from my home,
and walk into the street and...
and going and took photos,
something like this...
Its been a while.
How is the food situation?
No food, no vegetables, no fruits.
- Just cans.
- Mm, ah, just cans.
Okay.
Cause, the other day,
when you sent me the photo,
with chips and chocolates...
- That box.
- Oh.
I have one!
- I want you to see.
- Yes, do.
I have this!
Its been 10 months,
I didnt eat any chips!
Any real chips.
So, today, I will eat that.
Ill eat this.
This is my first time.
Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.
This is really good.
I need the key to the door.
What for?
- Which one?
- We wanna play in there.
Who is this?
Just one minute.
Just repeat what you said.
I said...
Youre tired, huh?
Oh.
I said, "Do you prefer
still to stay in your house
instead of leaving?"
Yes, because we have nowhere to leave to.
We have nowhere, uh, we have nowhere yet.
We have just our home and our...
here, and... our home can...
our home can contain us,
and hug us.
But other homes cannot.
Im suffering from this desperation, so...
This is what makes me taking
a few time to understand.
You know?
Youre suffering
from what, you say?
- From desperation.
- Depression?
- Desperation.
- Desperation.
- Im distracted.
- Youre distracted?
- Okay.
- Yeah.
This is recent?
This is since the w*r?
- What?
- When did this start?
Distraction, I mean...
Um, one month later.
For one month.
Its increasing in the past month.
And when I was in my normal day,
I feel like Im out of mind.
And I just watching everything.
I have no reaction.
I have no...
I have nothing to do.
I feel just...
I want to just watch everything
and keep silent.
So, its a very exhausting thing.
I cant hear you.
Did you tell anyone about this?
About your depression?
I have no one to talk to about this
because there is no one specialist of this
or can fix this problem.
And I think this problem cannot end,
uh, in the w*r.
When the w*r ends, this can be end.
I feel
youre not there as before.
I feel it when we talk.
I feel Im losing you somehow.
I dont know how to say it.
Sometimes I feel, yes,
youre less present.
What makes you happy?
Try to think of that,
what makes you happy?
What would make you happy?
- What makes me happy?
- Yes.
I want to get out from this city!
Ah, okay.
I want to get out from all of this.
I feel so tired
because of this city and this destruction
around me, all the time.
I want just to be in a normal place.
In nature, in a calm place...
And breathe some clear air.
And feel peace.
And feel I am a normal person.
I think Im in a prison.
In a real prison.
I cannot do anything.
Why do you say you dont feel
like youre a normal person?
Because of everything.
You are a normal person.
The situation is not normal.
I dont eat normal food,
I dont do normal things,
I dont, uh, walk on normal streets,
I dont... make anything
like normal people.
During the COVID, corona,
was the feeling of being trapped
a bit similar to now or no?
No, of course no!
In COVID, it was...
I remember I was a happy person.
I was in my room, and I have internet,
I have my laptop.
I remember that I started
to learn Morse code.
- You know?
- Oh...
I had started learning Morse in prison,
when I was in jail.
Yes.
We had to communicate
with the, you know?
With the next door cell.
And so we used to do that, and...
Do you still stay in your room?
- No, no...
- Why?
Because we are not...
We are not here.
We are in our relatives.
This is my key of my room.
Nice! You close it?
You close the door, you lock the door?
Yes.
Well, thats your private space.
- I mean, its important.
- Yeah, of course!
I dont like someone enter my room, and...
- And do anything.
- Of course, I understand.
You cannot enter it without me.
You know the book?
Theres a book called A Room of Ones Own.
Its a very famous book by Virginia Woolf.
Ah, I heard about Virginia Woolf.
Yes.
She wrote a book, and this was
a very important book
about the concept of having
a private space of your own
and your own room and, you know...
- The whole...
- Ill try to read it.
We used to say to ourselves,
"Fatra o betaaddi."
It means "this time will pass."
So, I think so, and I think
this also will pass.
Make a wish and then
we say goodbye for today.
A wish?
I want to go to a...
I wish to go to the city of...
the city of amusement...
The amusement park.
Oh.
You want to? Which one?
The one in Paris, you mean,
near Paris, or where?
- Any one.
- Any one.
- Anywhere.
- Okay, okay.
Once the w*r is over,
we have to do that together.
I wish, I wish it would come.
I wish you can do it soon.
Its okay, Sepideh, its okay.
You are here and thats enough.
Its okay.
Enough that you are, uh, hear me
and share my feelings and your feelings.
Im so glad to be here.
Im so glad that you are beside me.
I hope all of this end and...
to see you in another place in this world.
Or in Gaza.
I hope youll come Gaza.
And I will take you to my home,
and I will... go out to the streets,
and walk in all of the streets of Gaza.
Im not sad, but all things that going,
it make you sad.
Not make you sad,
but it make you boring of waiting.
We are waiting very much
and hoping, and, unfortunately, k*lling.
Im on the roof of my house
on the sixth floor.
The airplane is above my head,
and I have headache because of the sound.
We hear this sound all the time.
Literally, all of the time,
we hear this sound.
Thats very hard!
But although I have very little hope
to live the life I want,
and I have the idea that I must keep going
and I must document everything
to be in this history,
to be me,
and to tell my... my children
about what I have lived,
and what I have survived.
- Im fine, how are you?
- I cant believe this. Wow!
Let me see you.
I know you... its one year.
I wanted to tell you...
Yes, yes, yes.
So, youre sitting, right?
Yes.
No, the film has been
selected for a big festival.
Yes, in Cannes.
I dont know if you know Cannes.
Do you know Cannes Film Festival?
- What?
- Cannes.
Cannes is a very big festival.
Ah, yes, yes. I know!
I know it.
It has been selected for Cannes.
- Ooh!
- Yes.
- Thats so great!
- Yes.
- You want to come?
- Of course!
So, because I...
And if I can come, me and Moataz,
this will be perfect.
- Its so amazing!
- Yes, it is. It is.
Well, I feel concerned, now
that the film will be public.
I mean, I was thinking whether
you would stay still there,
or will you move from your place
to somewhere else?
I mean, I dont know,
how you feel about that?
Um, I think I cannot get out from Gaza,
because, um,
even if everything
or everywhere is destroyed,
but I cannot get out from here,
because here is my family, my memories,
my things, my friends, my everything.
We have just Gaza.
We have any land, we havent
any land except Gaza.
So, this is our land,
this is where we live
and where were born.
We can rebuild Gaza,
and rebuild our homes and our places.
I dont know when,
but I believe that everything will end.
Its nice talking to you again.
- Me too.
- Yeah.
So, I miss you so much!
You come for the festival.
I hope so.
- I really hope.
- Yes, yes.
I will, I just...
So, you sent me the...
Your passport now? You just sent it to me?
Yes, I sent.
Well talk soon?
See you...
Bye.
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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025)
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