Gaza: Videos of life under war

Since the war began, B'Tselem's field researchers in Gaza, Olfat al-Kurd, Khaled al-'Azayzeh and Muhammad Sabah, have lost many family members to Israeli bombings. Two of them have lost their homes in northern Gaza and are now displaced. Nevertheless, they have worked hard to convey personal stories and difficult sights from the ground, in almost impossible conditions. Here is footage filmed by them and by other photographers:

In the video above and the next two, Palestinians from Gaza describe being abused in Israeli detention during the war, late December 2023
 

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Um Muhammad al-Hasasneh from a-Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City describes the struggle to feed her children in an IDP camp in Khan Yunis (filmed by B'Tselem field researchers Muhammad Sabah and Olfat al-Kurd)

One meal a day: Gazan parents on struggling to feed their children in IDP camps in Khan Yunis and Rafah(filmed by B'Tselem field researchers Muhammad Sabah and Olfat al-Kurd)

One meal a day for Gazans : a mother, pregnant woman and girl on surviving in an IDP camp:  Dina’s daughter begs her for food, Wisal is undernourished while pregnant and Malak goes to bed hungry. Two women and a girl from northern Gaza on life in a Khan Yunis IDP camp. Filmed by Olfat al-Kurd.

Thirsty, hungry, cold: surviving in a Gazan IDP camp, by B’Tselem field researcher Olfat al-Kurd on 4 January 2024

A 14-year-old describes his family's journey to an IDP camp: Yusef a-Sheikh Khalil, whose mother Olfat is a field researcher with B’Tselem, misses the books in his bombed home. At only 14, he has seen more than any person should (Filmed by Zeinah and Olfat al-Kurds, on 11 November 2023) 

Without water, food or electricity, under an unprecedented barrage of bombings - people sheltering at an IDP camp in Khan Yunis described conditions there on 7 Nov. 2023.

Dr. Khalil al-Degran on the harsh conditions in Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital, central Gaza Dr. Khalil al-Degran from Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah spoke on 19 November 2023 about the hospital’s overload, with casualties lying in hallways in courtyard and not enough medicine, fuel and medical equipment.  

This is where newborn Mirna Abu Suliman is spending her first days, huddled with a family of 10 in an IDP camp in Khan Yunis. Her mother, Sahar, 36, spoke to B’Tselem B’Tselem field researcher Olfat al-Kurdon 26 Nov. 2023 about fleeing Jabalya RC in northern Gaza and giving birth away from home: Read the testimony of Sahar Abu Suliman.
 

Footage of the massive destruction caused by Israeli airstrikes in the city of a-Zahraa, the central Gaza Strip, 27 Nov. 2023

Residents of northern Gaza forced to flee south spoke with B’Tselem field researcher Muhammad Sabah 20 Nov. 2023 about the harsh conditions at the makeshift refugee camp at a Rafah school, now that winter has begun.

Mona abu-‘Odeh from Beit Hanoun talked with B’Tselem field researcher Muhammad Sabah on 15 Nov. 2023 about fleeing home with nothing, her family’s journey south under bombings, and the harsh conditions at the harsh conditions at a Rafah IDP camp.

‘Alaa Abu Zeid, who lives with his family east of Khan Yunis, told B’Tselem field researcher Khaled al-'Azayzeh on 13 Nov. 2023: “Dozens of people have already been killed in our area. The situation is very bad. I can’t even begin to describe it. The children are frightened and scream with every bombing. It’s especially scary at night, when everything is dark. You see anything and you can't tell what's going on.” Read his full testimony.

Shukri al-Ahwal, 64, spoke with B’Tselem field researcher Muhammad Sabah on 13 Nov. 2023 about the destruction of his neighborhood, a-Rimal, which used to be considered the safest in Gaza City 

B’Tselem field researcher Khaled al-'Azayzeh documented efforts to unearth victims from an Israeli airstrike on the home of his relatives in Deir al-Balah, the central Gaza Strip, on 10 Oct. 2023. The attack killed 26 people, 12 of them minors.
Read the testimony of Taher al-‘Azayzeh who lost his wife, children, parents, sisters, brothers and their families in the boming