tracersublimate "Tears of Gaza" offers NO facts about the real facts or reasons why Israel would even attack Gaza in the first place. I know history.This film has NO content. It is purely propaganda. Thus, a lie. There are far too many web sites and videos out there now that just lie, and even incite violence against innocent people - people that are just defending themselves and homeland against attackers, murderers, terrorists. Gaza is attacking Israel FIRST, killing innocent people. Look for that fact in this film - you will not see it. Just lies.We all have had enough lies from the Natzis in Germany WW2. You know what happened to them. I suggest you get wise and avoid that kind of fate.If you watch, fine. But while you watch, keep in mind the points I have made. Open your eyes and stop accepting lies. From all sources.Have a nice day. TRACER

Sindre Kaspersen Norwegian author, actress, screenwriter, producer and director Vibeke Løkkeberg's documentary feature which she wrote and which was made in collaboration with the people of Gaza, is inspired by her observations of children's faces on television and her perception about the population being unfairly stigmatized as terrorists. It premiered in the Reel to Reel section at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival in 2010, was shot by citizens of Gaza and is a Norwegian production which was produced by producer Terje Kristiansen. It tells the story about a fourteen-year-old girl named Amira Fat-hi Dawood El Eren, a twelve-year-old boy named Yahya Subh and an eleven-year-old girl named Rasmia Al- Sultan. Distinctly and subtly directed by Norwegian filmmaker Vibeke Løkkeberg, this quietly paced reportage which is narrated from multiple viewpoints though mostly from the point of view of three Palestinian children, draws a direct and abrupt portrayal of what the situation and conditions were like for the civilians during a war where they became the victims of the battles between terrorist groups and military forces from the state of Israel who declared their independence in 1948, the state of Palestine who declared their independence in 1988 and who both have claimed the Gaza Strip as their territory and Jerusalem as their capital city. While notable for its real milieu depictions and reverent cinematography by cinematographers Yosuf Abu Shreah, Saed Al Sabaa, Mwafag Al Khateeb and Julie Kristensen, this observational story about the people of a former British colony formerly governed by Egypt (1948-1967), Israel (1967-1994) and then under Palestine authority from 1994, an ongoing historical conflict with political and sectarian undertones and a territorial war between the two middle eastern republics and countries of Israel where most of the population are Israeli Jews and Palestine where most of the population are Sunni Muslims and Arab Christians, emphasizes its attention on the children and families, is so subjective that it risks being regarded as populism and contains a timely score by composers Lisa Gerrard and Marcello De Francici. This recurrently relevant, bilaterally atmospheric and crucially humane documentary feature from the early 2010s which is set in the early 21st century in a city called Gaza in the Levant region during the presidency of Shimon Peres in Israel, Mahmoud Abbas in Palestine and the Gaza War (2008-2009) which resulted in both Palestine and Israel casualties, which lasted for twenty-two days, and where the executioners were praying on the lives of the civilians who were sacrificed for the jurisdiction of an area, is impelled and reinforced by its cogent narrative structure, subtle continuity, multiple perspectives, commendable footage, non-political approach and scenes of the children. A bravely veracious authentication.

solanojohn55 This is one of the purest films I have ever watched, I recommended highly! First of all it is 100% pure footage of what is it like to be on the ground as a witness of what Israel claims to us all over the world as a military targets. A user of IMDb wrote in a review by moacow" we did not see the other side justification for this type of bombing" What a numb-skull user moacow is…How in the world can you or any one justifies bombing a civilian home or a hospital or a school or even shooting with a sniper rifle babies and more. MOACOW YOU CANNOT! that is why you did not see it in the film. Israel does not explain its U.N. and international courts condiment actions to anyone in the world.As an English now American and married to a lovely American Jewish woman, I hope one day soon I will witness peace in Israel! We as people with understanding to life, we cannot let Israel continue the mass murders of Palestinians. Bloody hell! Did you notice the Israeli in-discriminant bombing of Palestinians? What kind of Army men with sniper rifles that shoots at babies and civilians? My grand fathers did not fight the criminal Hitler so Israel can take over his criminal role now they act exactly like if not worse than Hitler. My wife is ashamed of Israel and its despicable treatment of people. That is why we all must not allow Israel to enjoy our hard earned money taxes going to support their criminal behavior. We must pressure Israel to sign the 1948 agreement with the Palestinians. If they do sign it all troubles in the East will stop and maybe for once the world will not look down at our policies regarding the world. Please join me and write to your congressman and senator to pressure Israel in to signing the 1948 agreement with Palestine and stop the bloodshed of innocent people. One cannot claim to be a human being and agree with Israeli violence!

beastlee A piece i did for a human rights class at the screening at UCSB in 2011: Vibeke Lokkeberg's Tears of Gaza attempts to capture the horrifying atmosphere during the 2008-2009 assault upon Gaza by the Israeli military. The footage is raw, disturbing, and yet meaningful. Present at the screening, Lokkeberg states her goals were simple: to capture the Palestinian victims in the 22 day conflict because no journalists were allowed inside Gaza at that time. At times you cannot help but feel certain scenes are staged, and this only hurts the film because it allows those that do not want to like the film the ability to discount it entirely. Both the director and producer came off as unbiased towards the political setting of the film, arguing that both sides are victims of a war that started hundreds of years ago or which they have no "part" of or answer to. But they did come off as big proponents of human rights, and it showed as an underlying theme in Tears of Gaza. The film uses video from the citizens of Gaza as evidence of what took place, and all the footage is very personal and hand-held. In one scene the camera is running towards a house after a bombing, and citizens are digging through looking for survivors. They slowly find one body after another of toddlers, 4 of them, decapitated, bloodied—lifeless. In another scene that I personally found upsetting there are 3 babies, not more than 2 or 3, each with an execution shot (close range, precise, kill-hits) to their head or chest.The Israeli-Palestinian conflict relates to themes in class on multiple levels. There is an argument, especially recently with the information leaked by Wikileaks that there is a large element of exclusionary ideologies sanctioned by the Israeli government. In addition, there claims that Israel violates multiple agreements adopted in the Geneva conventions, particularly when dealing with the treatment of civilians— the film made it clear that, at times the Israeli military fails to make the distinction between combatants and civilians. The film did specify its documentation on the innocent, and in that sense I do believe that there is also a call for international intervention, or at the very least, knowledge of the true situation. What is clear in Tears of Gaza is that there are things happening to Palestine that should happen to no one, even in times of war—the Israelis indiscriminately kill children, fathers and mothers, and maybe intentionally, the future generations of Palestine. Both Israel and Palestine committed war crimes by killing civilians. The only distinction is the capability of each side. Israel uses a realism argument saying that Palestinian militants fired from civilian areas, and thus their systematic attacks on these areas were justified. Israel is a military powerhouse, containing one of the world's strongest militaries, effective intelligence, and advanced technology. They knew where they were firing, and what each shot was going to do. The Palestinians are still decades back in killing capability—firing rockets and mortars. The fact is ~1400 Palestinians were killed in the conflict, ~300 of which were children—Israel lost 13 people, of which 1 at the most was a child (numbers vary depending on your source). A life is a life, and there is no argument that each side violated various human rights from this war, but the sheer numbers should say something regarding the magnitude of these violations. I gathered a lot from the film due to the American media portraying are Israeli allies biasedly—I can better than before empathize with the Palestinians. Tears of Gaza did not show me who was wrong in this on-going struggle between the warring states, but it did show me the harsh reality that neither side is right.