Nacido en Gaza

Screening on Netflix My Review Nacido en Gaza (2014). Born in Gaza My Rating 10/10

This heartbreaking and disturbing French documentary is a beautifully filmed account describing the devastating physical and psychological effects of children who by an accident of birth live lives of uncertainty in a war torn country where in any day they could become orphans or lose a brother or sister.

Filmed shortly after the 2014 Gaza War Summer War and told through the eyes of 10 Palestinian children this documentary certainly opened my eyes to what must be happening ten fold today in Gaza and I wondered just how many of these ten children are still alive 9 years after this film?

This documentary film focuses on the violence of the Israel-Palestine conflict and it's effects on the children of Gaza. The documentary follows the story of about ten children who tell what their daily life is like after the horror of the war in Gaza in the summer of 2014.

Really changes the propagandized version of Palestinians as red in tooth and claw and out for Jewish blood. THESE ARE CHILDREN! With dreams, hopes and massive PTSD resulting from the Protective Edge/Solid Cliff Massare of 2014, where Israel racked up a civilian kill ratio DOUBLE Bashar Assad's in Syria.

I was crying throughout the documentary and I don't cry easily. This movie takes the viewer through each child's life. It is heartbreaking to see how politics and weapons can destroy families and communities. Each and every one of these kids had dreams and hopes and a future yet they are born at a time when they must suffer needlessly. It is also really incredibly sad to wonder whether they are still alive or under the rubble of constant bombing by Israel. Are they still alive? Are their families with them? Do they have food and water? Or are they stuck in a cage-like prison fearing for their life. This is a must-view for anyone who wants to have a heart.

This is absolutely heart wrenching to watch. Basically a prison camp for children to die or if they survive they end up with lots of traumatic psychological problems. I can't even imagine how much suffering this place has. Collective trauma. No wonder some of these kids grow up to join the resistance, they don't know any better and just see death all around. They have nothing to look forward to and just live in terror. This film was shot in 2014 and now it's 2023 when the latest war broke out. In the film the children say there is a war every year or 2. So this collective pain just keeps repeating itself. They can't work, they can't live, they can't dream of a future.

"We do grow vegetables not bombs then why do they bomb us? "

• a 13 year old Palestinian boy

In 2014. Israel launched offensive on Gaza that left more than 500 children dead and almost 3600 children wounded.. shockingly, 80% of Gaza population is dependent on humanitarian aid and not to mention a grim 45% if unemployment rate in that region .. these attacks caused some 24000 farmers to leave and loose their farms, 42000 aces of farmlands affected and over 400,000 children would later need some kind of psychological help...an agonizing heart-rending true story .. Whether you are a Zionist or not or even hard-hearted, this will break your heart .. a must must watch documentary .