Opinion: 'Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced'
In the whole row over the BBC documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, not one word was written about what this film told us about the way Palestinians are surviving a war that has spanned a year and a half.
None of the following voices appear to have been heard in the controversy over screening this film.
A woman fleeing with an empty water bottle, after another Israeli evacuation order, shouted to no one in particular: “God damn you all. May God curse you [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar.”
A boy told the camera in a deadpan tone: “We saw people dead in front of us. One had his guts coming out of his stomach. Are we in a safe place?”
Zakaria, an 11-year-old hustler scratching a living out of cleaning ambulances at al-Aqsa Hospital, explained how he worked alongside members of the media, doctors and paramedics: “I love being a volunteer. I want to volunteer for an ambulance unit.”