A video showing how Palestinian refugees play near the beach.
Footage from Gaza
Footage of Gaza Strip
Palestinian launched a six week protest named the "Great March of Return," demanding the right of return for the historic land they were driven out from back in 1948.
A Video showing the the beauty of Gaza Strip by Drone.
Footage from the daily life of a refugee camp in Gaza Strip.
A Fisherman in Gaza Seaport footage.
The Gaza Strip is a densely populated and impoverished region inhabited primarily by Palestinian refugees; the majority live in large, overcrowded refugee camps.
Gaza Strip has been under a tight Israeli blockade for more than 11 years now. 2 million Palestinians in the coastal sliver are living in an open air jail.
The Israeli occupation and blockade have a lot of effects on the economic and socioeconomic conditions in Gaza.
This collection will gather different footage about Gaza Strip, the sea, people, markets, and neighborhoods.
Footage from how Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are living under occupation and 11 years of blockade. Showing Gaza from Different angles.
Farmers and Farms Footage from Gaza Strip.
Gaza Seaport footage with drone without music.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
Wedding in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, a young couple get married in a traditional way in Palestine territory.
May 30, 2016
Gaza, Palestine
80% of factories in Gaza are out of service because of the ongoing siege imposed on the city by the Israelis.
The blockade of Gaza is entering its tenth year. For the past five years the Rafah Border Crossing to Egypt has been closed more than it has been open. In 2015 it was closed for over 300 days.
The thousands of Gaza Palestinians who want to travel to Egypt are required to regularly update their travel request applications at the travel department in the Abu Khadra Palestinian Ministries Complex in Gaza City.
Kitam Ali, a twenty five year old Palestinian woman, updated her application at the Abu Khadra Complex, then went to buy a Palestinian style ‘kufiya’, the traditional Middle Eastern headdress, as gift for Beiram, her Tunisian fiancée.
Khitam lives in the Nusirat Refugees Camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.
Two years ago she was introduced to Beiram, a young man in Tunisia, through Facebook. The two never met face to face but they fell in love after conversations Facebook and Skype. They decided to get engaged from a distance and have their wedding ceremony once Khitam could travel to Tunis. Now considered officially married, Khitam is doing her best to join Beiram and hold the wedding party but she has been unable to leave Gaza because of the blockade and border closing that was imposed on Gaza nine years ago. In the past she would ask Beiram to prepare for the wedding after getting promises from Gaza authorities to allow her to travel. The promises have not been fulfilled but Khitam has vowed to keep trying to unite with her fiancée in Tunis.
Her mother says the long delay is a problem for Khitam as she lives in a conservative society that does not accept a long period of engagement.
Suhair Sheikh Khalil, a thirty six year old mother from Egypt, is staying temporarily in her brother’s house in a refugee camp in Gaza City. She keeps in touch with two of her children in Egypt through Skype. Because they do not understand the difficult situation for their mother in Gaza, they complain about her excuses about being away from them for so long. Suhair and a seven year old daughter Nada have been trapped in Gaza for almost one year. Suhair keeps repacking their luggage in hopes of being able to return to Egypt the next day.
After traveling from Egypt to attend her nephew’s wedding at the United Nations Gaza Beach Refugee Camp, mother and daughter became trapped when the Rafah Crossing was closed following their arrival in April, 2015.
Suhair is a Palestinian with Egyptian nationality and married to an Egyptian citizen. Two of her three children stayed with their father in Egypt when their mother and sister traveled to Gaza. Suhair’s husband divorced her when she did not return to her home in Egypt on time. She says her husband is not convinced of her dilemma in Gaza since news media outlets in Egypt do not report on the closings of the Rafah Border Crossing.
Hamas leaders participated in a parade at Gaza City's downtown to celebrate the movement's 28th anniversary, with militants of Al Qassam Brigade, the military wing of Hamas, displaying weapons in a show of force. Other rallies took place in different cities in Gaza with thousands of Hamas Palestinian supporters.
Addressing the crowd in Gaza City, Hamas leaders said that the movements's weapons were only to be used against the occupation. Mahmoud Al Zahar, one of the leaders, sent one message to Western governments, telling them "not to neglect human rights in Palestine, which is being violated by Israel"; and another message to Arab countries to support Hamas and help it liberate Palestine.
The image of the masked protestor, with their fiery eyes and fist in the air is one of the most iconic images in popular culture. This character has become romanticized, demonized, idolized, and oftentimes misunderstood. The upheaval that has taken place around the world, especially in the last four years, has both reinforced and broken this stereotype.
But who are those who take to the streets? Why do they do it? What do they want?
A procession of women in Nigeria, marching together with placards reading “Bring Back Our Girls”, has a considerably different tone than the charged clashes between riot police and anarchists in Greece. A candlelight vigil held by journalists in Lebanon in solidarity with Charlie Hebdo does not have the same risk of deadly violence as villagers and farmers confronting trigger-happy gunmen in Syria. And a group of concerned citizens voicing their discontent with the privatization of a public beach does not have the same high social and political stakes as those trying to overthrow an authoritarian regime.
However, despite vast differences in context and situation, those who take to the streets often share a common drive to stand up for ideas they believe in. For many, there is a common belief that by taking to the streets and making their voices public, they can influence change in their world.
Israeli Security in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.
May 2, 2015
Palestine, West Bank
The Palestinian National Security Force put on a display of its tactical abilities at a public event in Jericho on May 2, 2015.
The contributor of this video provided the following description of the event:
“The Palestinian Authority is very interested in conveying a positive image to the Palestinian public about its security forces. This is to counter an ever increasing negative perception among ordinary Palestinians towards the PA for coordinating on security matters with the Israelis.
The PA wanted to show us through experience what it is like to be a member of the NSF.They wanted us to know full well, and to tell the world, that their men and women are well disciplined, conditioned and motivated to carry orders when given.
However what struck me the most is the moral of the men and women and their motivation. They see themselves as a nucleus of a regular Palestinian army and not just a mere special force to carry on an arrest. One member of the NSF alluded to the second Intifada and at the time when the Israeli army stormed the center of Ramallah and laid seige on the Presidential compound where Arafat was taking residence. It was as if he was saying this won't happen again. There was also a feeling of bitterness and resentment over the Israeli army incursions into Palestinian towns and cities.
Members of the NSF speak of themselves as if they were a border force in charge of defending borders of Palestine. Of course we cannot help but ask ourselves where do these borders lie.
I asked the Colonel in charge of media affairs about challenges. His reply was the "Israeli occupation" as the most direct challenge and obstacle to advance this force. He cited restrictions on procuring technology and equipment. To make a point about the various restrictions the Colonel talked about donors' refusal to fund a canine unit and how this unit was founded despite lack of funding.”
The old city of Jerusalem contains the holiest places for two major monotheistic religions and the third holiest place for a third. The old city of Jerusalem contains the Wailing Wall, the holiest site for Jews; the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is said to stand on the ground where Jesus was crucified, interred, and later resurrected; and the nearby Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is one of the oldest mosques in Islam and represents the place where the prophet arrived on his nightly journey from Mecca. Al-Aqsa is regarded as the third holiest place in Islam, after Mecca and Medina.
Together, these religious sites hold significance for approximately four billion Christians, Muslims and Jews around the world.
Palestinians from across the West Bank and Israel gathered in confiscated Palestinian villages, on both side of the 1967 Greenline, to commemorate Land Day. Land Day is seen as a day of resistance action in defense of Palestinian land. Annual Land Day events are held by Palestinian communities within the State of Israel, in the occupied territories, and in the Palestinian diaspora.
Land Day events in 2015 included a 'return march' by the community-in-exile of Lifta, many of whom today remain only a kilometer or two from their original homes. Today there remains a small but very active community-in-exile of Lifta's refugees in East Jerusalem, and it was this group, under the banner of their community grassroots organisation 'Sons of Lifta' who spent Land Day inside their home village. Although many of the village's houses remain intact and the refugees live only a ten minute journey away, they are denied their rights to return to live in the vilage by the State of Israel.
Land day first started on March 30,1976, when mass demonstrations broke out among Palestinian communities in the State of Israel in protest at an Israeli state plan to confiscate 20,000 dunums (2,000 hectares) of land around the Palestinian villages of Sakhnin and Arraba in the Galilee. This was one of the first examples of mass coordinated action being carried out by Palestinian citizens of Israel. Protests were held from the Galilee in the north all the way to the Negev (known as the 'Naqab' to Palestinians) in the south. Over the course of the day 6 Palestinians were shot dead and more than 100 were injured. Ever since these events, Palestinians have commemorated March 30th as 'Land Day', or 'Yom al-Ard' in Arabic.
In Another Land Day event, activists in the village of Wadi Fukin in the West Bank attempted to plant 350 olive tree saplings on land that is threatened with expropriation by the expansion of the Israeli settlement of Sur Hadassah. All Israeli settlements within the 1967 occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) are illegal under international law. Before more than a handful of trees could be planted in Wadi Fukin, Israeli soldiers rained clouds or tear gas on to the activists bringing the Land Day event to an abrupt halt. For Palestinians, Land Day is an important annual event which brings together many thousands of Palestinians across historic Palestine in the defence of Palestinian land.
As the Land Day action is brought to an abrupt halt in Wadi Fukin, the majority of the 350 olive tree saplings remain unplanted outside a house in the village after activists were forced to escape from clouds of tear gas that was fired by Israeli soldiers.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.
A Palestinian child watches from a rooftop in Wadi Fukin as Israeli soldiers fire rounds of tear gas at fleeing activists during a tree planting event to mark Land Day. In the background stands the huge Israeli settlement of Beitar Illit which is built partly on the land of Wadi Fukin.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.
Two elderly Palestinian women attempt to make their way down the hill in Wadi Fukin to escape from the tear gas that is being fired by Israeli forces.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.
An Israeli security helicopter circles above Wadi Fukin during the olive tree planting event to commemorate Palestinian Land Day on March 30th 2015.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.
Israeli soldiers line up on a hill top in Wadi Fukin as Palestinian activists watch from a distance during an olive tree planting event to commemorate Land Day in the Palestinian village of Wadi Fukin.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.
350 olive trees were brought to Wadi Fukin to be planted on the lands threatened by settlement expansion.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine, March 30 2105.
Activists make their way up a hill toward land that is threatened by the expansion of the Sur Haddasah settlement. In the background, the huge Beitar Illit settlement is also built on the land of Wadi Fukin.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine, March 30 2015.