Gaza 2009. - Zaytun area - Testimony of Zeynab Samuny

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We were sitting at home at night as usual and were preparing ourselves to go to sleep. We heard the sound of the bombs near us, so believed that Israeli army was near us.
In the morning the bullets hit our water tank on the roof of our house and our relative, Abu Adnan`s family and some of our neighbors came to our home and they told us that the soldiers hit their house with bombs.
The soldiers came to us at seven in the morning and ordered us to leave the house, so left and went to Weal’s house which consists of shops. We stayed there nearly two days. The little babies didn’t have anything to eat at first but the old men and women tried hard to make food for them on the first day.
The next day, two of the young men, my cousins, left the house to bring wood for us to make bread, but the soldiers shot them with some bombs and died.
The first bomb killed the young men, the second one hit the middle of the house where we were hiding, and the third one hit my brother’s wife while the fourth hit the corner of the house where we were sitting.
We thought that we should leave the house so we took white flags and get out of the house. There were soldiers over El Savagery’s house and they started to shout at us with their guns while they were laughing at us. We walked nearly two kilos and we asked one of the soldiers to bring us an ambulance, but he was also laughing and making jokes at us.
My father was shot in his head and the whole body while my mother was hit in her lower body and her chest and they were dead immediately. My brother’s little daughter was killed also with some parts of the bombs.
They all were left to bleed till death and the soldiers were laughing. Many of them were cut into two halves and the others were hit by a missile. The family of my uncle Ishaq, Ismael and their mother left to bleed for two days till death.
I had seen the soldiers coming to us by parachutes.

(non-edited video footage) translated from arabic.

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ça y est le site est lancé avec les premières images que nous avons tournées Kheridine et moi même à Gaza-strophe, le jour d'après... en janvier 2009, juste après la guerre lancée par le gouvernement de la mort d'Israël cet hiver. C'est un blog destiné à évoluer et nous allons montrer le matériel brut tel que nous l'avons tourné pendant les trois semaines de notre séjour dans toute la bande de Gaza avec nos amis du PCHR (Palestinian Comeettee for Human Rights), Jaber, Abdelhalim, Awad et Cie. Nous mettrons en ligne une séquence par jour, en attendant le film "GAZA-STROPHE, le jour d'après" (90 mn) qui sera disponible après montage, ce printemps(mai)
Allez jeter un oeil sur : www.gaza-strophe.com
Nous avons besoin de votre soutien. Si vous le souhaitez vous pouvez nous envoyer une souscription et recevoir le DVD du film lorsqu'il sera disponible dans notre "cinémétèque" en DVD et pour des projections publiques.
Devenez "ami de la cinémétèque" en nous envoyant un chèque à partir de 50 euros à :
"GAZA-STROPHE", BP 624-92006 Nanterre cedex France.
Vous recevrez alors le film chez vous en DVD (arabe, anglais, français) lorsqu'il sera disponible et pourrez organiser des projections;
les personnes qui veulent donner un coup de main à la traduction de l'arabe vers le français, puis vers l'anglais, l'espagnol, l'italien, etc... sont priées de nous écrire à :
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amitiés
samir abdallah (merci de m'envoyer votre num de tel j'ai perdu la mémoire de mon portable dans les chiottes de Gaza!!)

Dear friends
See here the first pictures that I have taken with my friend Kheridine, in Gaza-strophe, the day after... in january 2009, after the israely war on the Palestinian people...
This website will be more developped in the next days. Theese pictures have been taken from all Gaza strip with our friends of PCHR (Palestinian Comeettee for Human Rights), Jaber, Abdelhalim, Awad et Cie. and we will charge pictures every day untill the final edit of the film "GAZA-STROPHE, the day after..." disponible this spring (may) with our "cinemeteque" on DVD for public screenings.
look at : www.gaza-strophe.com
we need your support. If you want you can send as subcription to get the dvd of the film when it will be ready; become "friend of cinemetheque" and send us a check from 50 euros to "GAZA-STROPHE", BP 624-92006 Nanterre cedex France. We will then send you the DVD in arabic with english or french subtitles when it will be ready.
and if there is any person who can help in translation from arabic to english or french or else let us know by sending an email to : contact@cinemeteque.com
Best regards
samir abdallah

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