It’s Bisan From Gaza, And We Will Return To Our Homes
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00:00Good morning, everyone. This is my son from Gaza.
00:04I'm smiling because I'm still alive.
00:07Our homeland, our lives.
00:09We have lost everything. Seriously, everything.
00:13Have you ever seen destruction like this, even in the end of the world movies?
00:19No.
00:20Bombs, rockets.
00:22But it's written here.
00:24This A.
00:31We're leaving our houses.
00:33They told us from the neighborhood in the center of Gaza.
00:37It was the worst day of my life.
00:39I remember that I only had 15 minutes to collect 25 years of my life in a backpack.
00:46I do not pray for us.
00:48I know that I seem to be energetic and smiling, but it's not the truth.
00:56Death had a smell. I'm smelling it right now.
00:59Behind me is a bombing happened last night.
01:01We are besieged. I don't know if I can survive this or go anywhere.
01:05I'm just alone.
01:07During this year, I feel all the time that I left a part of my soul back in my home in the north of Gaza Strip.
01:13And this soul is now with my belongings, with my room, my books, my clothes, with the pictures of my family hanged everywhere.
01:25I have been homeless for almost a year.
01:29Let me show you guys where am I now and the place that I'm sleeping.
01:35Oh my God.
01:37They started the bombing early tonight.
01:41I had a family. I had a home.
01:44I had a lot of dreams.
01:46I used to believe in my role in changing this world to a better place.
01:53I know I changed a lot.
01:55Everything lost its meaning in the genocide, unfortunately.
02:08Good morning, everyone. This is Bisan from Gaza.
02:12It's the day 23 of continuous bombing.
02:16I'm smiling because I'm alive.
02:19I'm at the hospital, Shepa Hospital.
02:22I'm evacuating here, living in a tent for almost three weeks now.
02:44They bombed the door of the hospital.
02:48I've been there before two minutes.
02:54It's a massacre. Thousands of people are out. Thousands of people.
03:03I wish I had never left my home.
03:06No matter what are the consequences of this, I wish I had never left my home.
03:12I had never fled the north of Gaza Strip to the south.
03:19Second.
03:23Where did you get it from? What does it say?
03:32They are feeling so sad.
03:34And they're feeling that the truth is not a very important thing
03:37since they can't go back to their homes.
03:40And I am one of them, as I am from the north,
03:43and I can't go during the truce to see my home,
03:47or anything in the north.
04:01Displacement in Gaza.
04:04It's difficult. It's almost impossible in our conditions.
04:08Hundreds of thousands of people are in tents.
04:11They don't have any place to go, or in the streets.
04:15I'm one of them.
04:17It's cold, it's windy, it's raining.
04:22Look at us.
04:24It's winter. It's officially winter.
04:27Displacement is the only thing that will never be deleted from our memory.
04:34And we will never forget it until the end of our lives.
04:37Displacement. Yeah.
04:45Hi everyone, this is Bissan from Gaza.
04:48Apparently, I'm still alive, and I'm leaving my place.
04:53Merry Christmas, by the way.
04:55It's the 25th of December, 2023.
04:58The world is celebrating, and Bissan is evacuating.
05:02It's not the same. We're not the same, unfortunately.
05:05So, the first people I really want to say goodbye to are
05:09Mahmoud, Jannah, and Amir.
05:15So, these are my friends, and we've shared breakfast several times.
05:20Let's ask them.
05:22These kind, cute children are the tents.
05:28Let's ask them about Rafah.
05:31I don't want to go to Rafah.
05:33Why?
05:35I hope that before we go to Rafah, we can go to our village.
05:40I hope so.
05:45The situation is really hard.
05:47The corbet bombing before this moment was just unbelievable.
05:54Unbelievable.
05:56The bombings are really loud and are so close to us.
05:59People who are displaced inside the hospital,
06:02dozens of thousands are just moving randomly,
06:05cannot find any place to go.
06:07As many in other hospitals,
06:09It's a war against hospitals.
06:40Imagine sharing only 40 square kilometers of space, okay?
06:46With too many people that are at the risk of being killed all the time,
06:52usually, that are displaced, hungry, exhausted, poor,
06:57maybe sick, and without help.
07:09If a child can't find anything to eat,
07:11everything he wants in his life,
07:13even bread, that's the hardest thing in his life.
07:15And there's nothing.
07:17We ate corn, we ate the pig's liver.
07:19No one of us is in a safe place.
07:23There are no safe places in Gaza Strip.
07:25And even nowadays, when I'm filming, for example,
07:28in an encampment, or in the street, or on the beach,
07:31I'm always like this, me and death.
07:34All of us like this.
07:37Oh my God!
07:40Look at this!
07:42Oh my God!
07:44Oh my God!
07:45It's a bomb inside the sea.
07:51Oh my God!
07:52These people are really suffering.
07:54There are no safe places in Gaza.
07:59The Israeli army have been telling us always
08:02to go to the south, but now there is no more south.
08:05We don't have any more south in Palestine.
08:07The south of Rafah now is Sinai Desert in Egypt.
08:11But actually surviving the aggressions and the occupation
08:16taught us that survival is a collective thing.
08:20And we need to stick to each other.
08:22We need to be united.
08:24Survival is a collective thing.
08:26And we need to stick to each other
08:28so we can survive all of these conditions.
08:31We are a close-knit people.
08:33And we share everything.
08:35All the resources and the food.
08:37We share also the joy, the sadness, the pain,
08:40the sorrow, and the hope.
08:49We want Mr. Sidra.
08:51We want Mr. Sidra.
08:55We want him.
08:57Oh my God.
09:01How are you?
09:03Congratulations. We missed you.
09:05God bless you.
09:09I came to have breakfast with you.
09:11Would you like it hot or cold?
09:15When the sun sets here and it's time for breakfast
09:20they probably have some dates and water.
09:23And by the way, dates are really rare and expensive
09:28while it's one of the fundamentals of Ramadan for Muslims.
09:32This is so generous.
09:34And they all said the same thing for me.
09:37Eat with us today.
09:39I don't have many dreams anymore.
09:42My only dream now is to stop the genocide
09:45and for my people to live in freedom and justice.
09:49I feel anger.
09:51And I feel that the world abandoned us.
09:54Look at this.
09:58Look at these bombs.
10:01Look what is written here.
10:04U.S.A.
10:06U.S.A.
10:10These are the American weapons behind me
10:14that are used to destroy the buildings around me.
10:20Can you see the destruction?
10:22Oh my God.
10:24Oh my God.
10:45What did you find behind you?
10:47Bombs.
10:49Look.
10:51When I was young I used to read about these civilizations
10:54that disappeared suddenly
10:57or about the huge cities that vanished without any trace.
11:01And I used to ask myself
11:03what is this enormous destructive force
11:07that can wipe the people, the place and the history
11:10all at once.
11:12I now had my answer.
11:14In a hard way.
11:16I experienced it.
11:18If death had a smell, I'm smelling it right now.
11:21Behind me is a bombing that happened last night
11:24and a displacement spot in a lost area.
11:27Around me are tents where people are still inside these tents
11:32because they were told that they are in a safe area.
11:43People are so afraid.
11:45And the main question is where to go?
11:47Where people should go?
11:49If the bombing is all over Rafah, Nunes and Gaza Strip around us
11:53where should people go?
12:06So people are fleeing on foot.
12:08In the dark, in the midnight
12:10or at the noon
12:12when the heat is about 40 C degrees
12:15extremely hot
12:17the family will be sitting on the street
12:20waiting to build their tent from worn clothes
12:23or pieces of plastic.
12:40Look at me.
12:41Look at how I'm dressed.
12:43I'm stripped of all my clothes.
12:45I don't have anything to put on my head.
12:56Since the beginning of the heat waves
12:58since the middle of June and during July
13:00I started suffering from skin pimples.
13:03It turns into an inflammation
13:06and a swelling of the skin
13:08and ulceration.
13:10A lot of people are suffering from the same thing.
13:12All the time I'm watching in the streets
13:14people putting bandages at the same places
13:16in their legs and feet.
13:28Look at that little girl there.
13:30She's so happy.
13:31She's the first of the line.
13:39Where do you live?
14:01So kids, instead of waiting in lines
14:05to enter their classes
14:07and their schools
14:08instead of being in a healthy environment
14:10in an educational environment
14:12they are between the rubble
14:14on the dust
14:15carrying heavy tanks
14:17to afford water to their families.
14:21Children have nothing.
14:22All I see when I'm in the street
14:24are children running for water
14:26running for food
14:27barefoot
14:28wearing worn clothes
14:29very thin, very unhealthy
14:31and they're without health
14:33without education
14:34without dreams.
14:38Are you nine years old?
14:39Yes.
14:40Is this your house?
14:42Yes, this is my house.
14:44Who did you lose?
14:46I lost my father, my mother
14:48all my siblings.
14:50No one.
14:51Does he know?
14:52No, he doesn't know.
14:54He doesn't know.
14:57Believing this is beyond my human belief.
14:59I can't believe that this is happening
15:02for children.
15:05They destroyed our houses.
15:07Three of our tents
15:08and two of ours.
15:09Six tents.
15:10They destroyed them.
15:11We built a tent
15:12and now we're sitting in it.
15:13Me and my siblings.
15:14They destroyed it.
15:18Have you ever heard about
15:20a land without dreams?
15:21Gaza is the land without dreams now.
15:24What do you play?
15:25We play soccer.
15:26We cheer ourselves up a bit.
15:28You see how the tents are broken
15:29and the missiles are flying.
15:30Where did you get this soccer ball?
15:32We brought it with us
15:34when we were evacuating.
15:35He left his tent and brought the ball.
15:37It looks like it's not suitable for living,
15:39for sheltering,
15:40for evacuating.
15:42It's just good for footwork.
15:45I'm so, so, so proud
15:48of being here despite everything.
15:50Displacement is really ugly,
15:51it's really hard.
15:52Living in tents is almost impossible
15:55after all of these events we're living.
15:57But I'm so, so proud of us,
15:59so proud of these people,
16:01of the children, of everyone.
16:08We will return to our homes
16:10and to our cities.
16:11And when we return,
16:13we will celebrate this with you.
16:15Celebrating the return
16:17by cleaning our cities,
16:19cleaning our streets
16:20and rebuilding Gaza with you.
16:23See there?
16:25Gaza City, my beloved city,
16:27my lovely place.
16:31Inshallah we will be back.
16:33Inshallah.
16:34I have an inner faith in Allah
16:37that we will get back.
16:39And I'll make a video like that
16:42from Gaza City, inshallah.