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.

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