Inside Gaza – The war and its consequences | DW Documentary

Inside Gaza – The war and its consequences | DW Documentary

Allah over 100 days of war in Gaza according to the Hamas controlled Health authorities over 24,000 Palestinians have died as a result of the Israeli offensive the majority of them women and children Israel took military action as a response to the terror attacks carried out by Hamas in Israel on October 7th

2023 approximately 1200 people were killed most of them civilians and over 230 people were abducted to Gaza as hostages the Israeli government’s declared goal is to eliminate Hamas in the Gaza Strip we asked a colleague who was already living in Gaza before the war to document everyday life there for

Us Muhammad Al kahut is a reporter who works for Dolla he himself has been displaced in the war repeatedly having to flee from the air strikes he’s been sending us both videos and voice messages since the War Began what we’re experiencing today is the war first and most violent War we’ve

Ever had in Gaza for civilians and for us journalists the destruction and suffering raised the question of what the future might hold for Gaza and the region a variety of scenarios are being discussed but are any realistic options for over 3 months Israeli forces have been Waging War in

Gaza tens of thousands of bombs and missiles have struck the narrow Coastal strip which has been sealed off since the Hamas terror attack on Israel Hamas invaded Israel 3 months ago with a brutal atrocities of October 7th and in response we set three goals to destroy Hamas to return all of the

Hostages and to make sure that Gaza can never again threaten our people Israeli Society sees the attacks by Hamas designated by many countries as a terrorist organization as an existential threat the shock from October 7th is still palpable every day we hear new details many times the feeling is that

Each new story is worse than the last and then in addition to that we have the war going on and so every day there is there are soldiers being killed there are families who are bereaved and those of us who are paying attention are also devastated by what’s going on

In Gaza knowing that this war is causing such apocalyptic damage in Gaza that everybody there is suffering 2.3 million people live in the Gaza Strip one of the most densely populated areas in the world on October 13th 2023 the Israeli Defense Forces issued a call for civilians to leave Northern Gaza for the

South over a million people tried to flee to say among them were Muhammad and his family I left Gaza City and Northern Gaza after the Israeli Army announced that these areas were now combat zones and all residents there would be in danger I had to move to the south of

Gaza with my father and my sister the Escape Route from north to south was very dangerous there was non-stop shelling thanks to God I got there safe in of all the dangers mamad would regularly send us footage clearly showing the extent of the Israeli bombardments the hamas-led Ministry of

Health in Gaza updated the rising official death toll every day nobody knew how many dead were still buried under the rubble more and more people were mourning relatives since ayat huda’s house was destroyed she and her baby son have been staying with relatives in Han unun my three eldest children were

Downstairs in the yard suddenly I felt the walls blowing up around me I heard them crack and then saw them break apart like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle I saw the light coming in through the cracks then we were sent flying too aat lost Consciousness during the attack after

Waking up in hospital she was told that her husband and three of her children had died my children are dead I’ve been married for seven years and I had four children in this time three of them died I have nothing to remind me of them my husband

Is dead my children are dead the house is gone and my phone with photos of them on it she does have at least one picture sent by friends Adam is the only child she has left I’m the only one left for it we live in

A state of fear every night I sleep with him on my lap if a missile strikes it will hit us both either we’ll die together or survive together he has no one except me and I have no one except him what will happen to me if he dies

And if I die who will bring him up the large number of Civilian fatalities has drawn International criticism talking to doll government spokesman Alon Levy Justified the actions of Israeli forces so if you could briefly introduce we are seeing scenes of widespread destruction because Hamas spent the last 16 years deliberately redesigning gaza’s

Cityscape in order to hide its military assets under civilian areas this is hamas’s human shield strategy but is defeating Hamas a realistic goal a question that a growing number of Israelis have been asking too the government and IDF they announced that we will continue with the war till the collapse of Hamas regime

Until the total Destruction of Hamas military capabilities but you cannot really achieve those goals if uh if uh you will not be you know with boots on the ground in Gaza the Israeli government has not yet said when or whether it will be with withdrawing its forces from

Gaza after the elimination of Hamas the Gaza Strip will be demilitarized and be under Israeli security control and no element in it will either threaten us or teach its children to destroy us Israeli troops had been stationed in Gaza since 1967 but withdrew in 2005 after Hamas took power Israel

Imposed a partial blockade of the territory Israel imposed on Gaza a terrible Siege depriving people from Basic things we didn’t have clean water in Gaza sufficiently with people had electricity only 6 hours a day and everything that get got into Gaza or left Gaza had to be

Controlled by Israel and we had a level of poverty of 70% of the population under the line of poverty and more than 80% of young educated people were unemployed so Israel was occupying Gaza in a different way now they want to sustain their military occupation inside desert a permanent military occupation

Of Gaza would be rejected internationally most importantly by Israel’s most powerful Ally the United States I made it clear to the Israelis I think it’s a big mistake for them to think they’re going to occupy Gaza and maintain Gaza I don’t think that works while Israeli ground troops

Advanced in Northern Gaza at the end of October more and more Palestinians sought refuge in the South clean water and food soon became scarce and sanitary conditions intolerable Aid deliveries were reduced to a trickle this uh effort to move Force Palestinians to the South uh to keep

Them with minimal amounts of food and water uh creating a des spiration among Palestinians so that you know more and more are going to die unless they get out and are able to access um you know support from uh Egypt is a man-made uh Force population transfer in January 2024 a farite

Minister of netanyahu’s government caused outrage with his plan for Gaza I call on the Prime Minister and the new foreign min this is an opportunity to orchestrate an immigration project and to encourage the migration of residents from Gaza to the countries of the world that is not Israeli government

Policy we are a lively democracy with many ministers who have many opinions and those opinions do not reflect the policy of the state of Israel every day that the war continues the sheer mass of bombs and missiles hitting the narrow Coastal strip increases the prospect of Gaza becoming uninhabitable these explosives that have

Been used are in now in the ground soil uh the decimated buildings are toxic made of toxic materials that’s now part of the soil it’s degraded the environment and think that we don’t even have any equipment left in Gaza to remove and start to think about clearing this up

On October 20th Muhammad and members of his family first moved to Han Yunis in southern Gaza like hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians after I arrived in southern Gaza I took my father and my sister to the red crescent building in the city of KH Yunis and I went to the Nasser

Hospital in the KH yunes region a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas beginning on November 24th enabled the exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners negotiations led to the release of around 100 hostages Israeli forces estimate that 136 are still being held in Gaza and there is growing impatience among ordinary

Israelis there is pressure within Israeli Society to reach another temporary ceasefire in order to release hostages but at the same time you know the majority of Israelis are still supportive of the war there is a bit of a contradiction there but the cause of releasing the hostages is certainly the

Most unifying cause in Israel right now during the ceasefire Muhammad documented the situation in the refugee camps in Han Yunis the war is taking a particularly High toll on the children of Gaza the children fell asleep as soon as we arrived here they hadn’t slept for 2

Weeks they were so exhausted I swear to God they just lay down and went straight to sleep and when they woke up they had a little smile on their faces because there was no more noise from the artillery and the planes and no nightmares that they die the next morning just imagine the

Children’s greatest wish was that the sound of the drones and planes would stop one local initiative in hanun aims to lift children’s spirits we want to reach children who have been displaced from the north to the south of Gaza these children have suffered so much under the Israeli air

Strikes the Palestinian working woman Society for development is trying to alleviate the psychological burden I’m happy that the clowns have come to see us we can’t play because of the bombs but when the clowns came we played with them and our friends we danced with them and they gave us lots of

Toys on December 1st the ceasefire came to an end and the bombing resumed from both sides in Northern Gaza the Israeli military continued to occupy further territory reportedly destroying Hamas infrastructure including parts of the extensive tunnel system numerous Hamas combatants were killed with many other Palestinians arrested in early December Muhammad sent

Us a series of pictures and a distressed text message the first seven people in the one photo he said were his brothers and cousins I was surprised to see a picture of my brothers and cousins circulating on the internet I didn’t know where exactly it was taken in Bia Northern Gaza

Eyewitnesses said that the Israelis stormed the area and all the young men there were arrested the arrests were Justified shortly afterwards by Israeli government spokesman Alon Levy we’re talking about military AED men who were discovered in areas that civilians were supposed to have evacuated weeks ago we’ve been calling

For an evacuation of those Hamas strongholds in order to locate the Hamas October seventh monsters with minimal harm to civilians now those individuals will be questioned and we will work out who indeed was a Hamas terrorist and who is not of course I asked my brothers cousins and uncles if they wanted to

Come to the South with us but they refused they said there were dangers and Strikes everywhere and that everyone had to suffer their own fate in the second half half of December the Netanyahu government started bombing Southern Gaza 2 with increasing intensity among the buildings hit was

The Naser Hospital in Han yunes where our reporter Muhammad was staying I had to leave the Nasser hospital last night after it had been hit twice in the morning and the evening the building next to where I was sleeping came under attack of gaza’s 36 hospitals only a handful

Are functioning and even then only at rudimentary capacity and largely without electricity or medicines bombing hospitals is classified as a war crime unless they’re being used for military purposes as Israel and US intelligence claim to be the case Hamas rejects the accusations Israel has been facing growing International criticism over its

Operations in Gaza and become singularly on December 29th South Africa filed an application at the international court of justice in the ha asking it to investigate an alleged violation of the genocide convention we think it is outrageous that ptor has chosen to play advocate for the Devil by covering up the crimes

Of the Hamas rapist regime and giving it legal and political cover and we have no doubt that if there is Justice in the world the international court of justice will throw out pretoria’s outrageous accusations and make it very clear it was Hamas that perpetrated an act of genocide on October 7th since January

11th the judges in the ha have also been deliberating over a request by South Africa to order an immediate end to the war the genocide case itself could take years even if the war were to end soon gaza’s future is uncertain there is as yet no strategy as to who should govern

Gaza after the war some have raised a potential option involving Arab Nations there are various signals from Arab states that they also see a role for themselves in the future of Gaza there’s also huge domestic pressure on the streets for them to take action they can bring all the

International forces in the world and put them on the borders we don’t care about that but they cannot bring other countries to rule us would German people accept that France will rule them or Britain or any other country of course not and Palestinians deserve to have Independence deserve to have to have the

Right of ruling themselves who should take political responsibility for the people of Gaza in future one possibility would be the Palestinian Authority which governs in the West Bank and is led by the internationally recognized president Mahmud abas Palestinian Authority does not have capacity to to to deal with the

Scale of what’s taking place in uh Gaza it’s already deemed illegitimate by the Palestinians because it hasn’t been able to deliver on basic services but also on a on a peace agreement that U would see an end to occupation it is an authority without Authority because Israel

Deprived it from all authorities it is an authority under Israeli occupation it cannot control any area in the West Bank and they can’t even control the riv of the Palestinian Authority which come from uh Palestinian taxpayers Israel is also controlling that Hamas has ruled Gaza since the elections in 2006 for

Years the group received millions of dollars in financial backing from Qatar a connection that research by the New York Times reveals was not only tolerated but actually supported by benan Netanyahu Netanyahu had been advancing a policy of dividing the Palestinian leadership strengthening or at least tolerating Hamas allowing it to be

Supported with Qatari money in order to avoid reaching any sort of political resolution to the conflict they wanted Hamas to remain in place keep its the threat managed but ensure that there was a divided Palestinian leadership but the question now is what’s to be done with

Hamas they will not be able to eliminate Hamas H because Hamas is not just a military structure and the question here is there a possibility that Hamas could be part of the solution rather than part of the problem the answer is yes I know them well they would accept a two-state

Solution if there was a real two-state solution now there is of course a lively political debate about how we reached a secure peace with the Palestinians and if there’s one thing that everyone in this debate can agree on is that there is no room for the Hamas rapist regime

After this war War because Hamas exists in order to oppose peace Hamas doesn’t want a two-state solution Hamas wants the final solution a two-state solution has been under discussion for decades it would involve a Palestinian State consisting of the Gonza strip and the West Bank with East Jerusalem as

Capital but Israelis have been building settlements in the West Bank for decades in violation of international law you can’t have settlements and a two- State solution it doesn’t work settlers are already controlling 60% of the West Bank and the is in this area 60% of the West Bank Palestinians are not allowed

To build a school a kindergarten a clinic a house nothing Netanyahu continues to reject the two-state solution I’m proud that I prevented the establishment of a Palestinian State because today everybody understands what it could have meant after seeing the little Palestinian state in Gaza everyone knows what would have happened

If we had capitulated to International pressures and enabled a state like that in Judea and Samaria surrounding Jerusalem and on the outskirts of Tel Aviv while Israelis continued to face rocket attacks from Gaza and fear for the fate of the abducted hostages hundreds of people were dying every day

In Israeli strikes on Southern Gaza 2o on January 7th Muhammad sent us another video and a message an attack by the Israeli forces had killed most members of a well-known Palestinian family men women and children last night a chalet belonging to the Abu al- Naga family was attacked like many others this family

Was forced to leave Gaza City and moved to the South the Chalet was hit in a strike I was there in the morning with other journalists and we filmed what happened and how the family relatives and neighbors tried to pull the bodies out from under the rubble oh my dearest one

I spoke to my mother-in-law and she asked why I left I told her that I wanted to say goodbye to my family and then come back we have a travel permit we wanted to escape this Injustice they were supposed to be leaving today why are they doing this to

Us the girls died last night I can’t take it anymore the girls are gone her mood is gone my dearest nobody asks about us or defends us over 30,000 people have been made martyrs so far and we don’t know what’s next none of the parties will compromise

And the people are the ones paying the price death will come to us too we are still alive but we’re expecting to die any minute rebuilding Gaza after the end of the war and making it fit for people to live in again will be a colossal undertaking there will have to be

Multiple actors involved to often we use the word International Community to refer to Rich Western countries I think there will also be Middle Eastern countries involved I think we should end the era of assuming that the international power Brokers are only a small subset of powerful Western

Countries what we do know is that the uh Arab Gulf States um that usually are tapped to help rebuild Gaza have said you know this is not their responsibility because they have been footing the bill for this kind of Destruction uh on a lesser scale but they’ve been paying for the

Rebuilding of Gaza repeatedly first of all I think the responsible party for destroying Gaza is Israel and it must be held accountable for that second I think uh rebuilding Gaza is possible we’re very resilient people and uh I think Israel must be forced to pay compensation for the unnecessary

Destruction it has caused and the day after Hamas the International Community must ensure that Gaza is rebuilt peacefully and it’s rebuilt in a way that ensures that concrete goes to people’s houses and not into Hamas Terror Tunnels for our reporter Muhammad every day poses danger as he would see

Again on January 7th after filming the Abu alaga family destroyed Chalet after we finished filming I went back to the Kuwait hospital when I got there I found out that the car of my colleagues had been targeted the ones who had just been filming the sight of the explosion with

Me I was surprised by the names of the Dead among the journalists sitting in that car was Hamza Al Daka son of Al jaz’s bureau chief and another colleague of mine Mustafa Al that Al jazer journalist was riding in a car with a Hamas terrorist who was

Operating a drone in general it is a bad idea to Hitch rides with terrorists in an active war zone because you might get hurt now I’ve seen that figure of the number of journalists who are killed and it’s important that you take a close look at that list

Because I counted over 20 people who are written as being Hamas Affiliated media according to the committee to protect journalists over 80 journalists have been killed in the war to date no one can say when the war in Gaza will end the whereabouts of the remaining hostages are still unclear as

Their relatives fear for their lives in Gaza itself people are dying every day in Israeli attacks 1.9 million Palestinians are now displaced there according to the world food program over half the population is threatened by extreme or severe hunger given the scale of the destruction the mutual hatred and

The immeasurable suffering is there any hope of Peace in Gaza of reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians I never give up hope that um that peace is possible this is a definitely a dark time to be thinking about uh you know peace talks or some Grand solution uh that will come I mean you

Don’t make peace between two friends it’s always two enemies two opposing parties that U make peace maybe after a generation two generations we will speak about any kind of coexistence but not in the coming years the Israeli military attacks are forcing people in Gaza further South towards the border with Egypt which is

Sealed off Muhammad is now there too after everything we’ve seen and experienced there’s no future for Gaza the destruction is devastating for the first time in my life I also had to flee the displaced people I have been filming all have one wish for the war to

End so they can return to to their homes in Northern Gaza

Over 100 days of war have left tens of thousands dead and widespread destruction in Gaza. The war waged by Israel in response to the Hamas terror attacks of October 7, 2023 has divided the international community. The question now is: what comes next?

DW reporter Mohammed Al-Kahlout lives and works in the Gaza Strip. Since the war broke out, he has been filming people’s everyday lives and the suffering and devastation around him. According to the World Health Organization, only a handful of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are in any way functional, as there is no fuel for the generators and hardly any medication. According to the UN, 1.9 of the 2.3 million people living in Gaza are now displaced within the small strip of land. Mohammed is a journalist but also a victim of this war; he and his family have to constantly flee Israeli army bombardments. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), over 80 journalists have already died in the war. On the way back from filming, rockets were fired at Mohammed’s colleagues’ car. Two journalists were killed.

International endeavors to negotiate a lasting cease-fire have so far failed. One of Israel’s conditions is that Hamas, designated as a terrorist organization by many countries, must release all hostages taken to Gaza. The longer the war goes on, the greater the concern as to whether Israelis and Palestinians can ever peacefully co-exist. Palestinian politicians, Israeli pollsters, political scientists and independent experts on international law all have their say in our documentary. Which scenarios for the Gaza Strip are being discussed, and which of them are realistic?

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