In Gaza, Filmmakers Asked Children: What Is Your Dream? | NYT Opinion
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- Опубліковано 2 лис 2023
- We often measure the tragedy of war in the suffering of children, but rarely do we hear from them. Two years ago, filmmakers asked children in Gaza, where nearly half the population is under 18, a seemingly simple question: What is your dream? The video above reveals their answers which, in light of the violence that has embroiled the region in recent weeks, are all the more poignant.
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The fact that they asked the children in 2021 and she replied this 1:57 really shows that the war didn't start on Oct 7 and that people in Gaza and Palestine have been dealing with this for decades
This comment should be pinned so other ignorance can see the truth
THIS!!
THE comment
Hey! How do you know this is from 2021 and not recent?
@@ashypoo_6701 DID YOU EVEN WATCH THE VIDEO? that information was stated in it. i cant with you.
Tha last kid really got into my heart. "Is there a bigger dream than returning home?"
nooooooooo!!
I want to tell him: kid you want to live! you want safety and prosperity! you don't want to keep fighting wars just to go back on an old house that isn't even there... why brainwash kids into this thing
islam is a cancer! they will reproduce new people much faster than christians people. so don't worry enough!
@@Magani79 if ppl didn't fight for their homeland their wouldn't be many cultures and countries just look around u will find many ........ if my grandfather wasn't crazy enough to fight for his homeland i wouldn't have a home, i wouldn't have a culture, speaking in my language would've landed me in prison, i would've been looked at as lesser human being etc . To u it might not mean much but to a lot it means everything
@@noellesilva-ve7kh 💗💗
Yea made me break down in tears this morning remind me of returning to Syria one day when the ASSad regime is gone
It was sad enough watching this till I started asking myself how many of these kids are still alive? Thats when I started sobbing. I pray they all get a chance at living a peaceful life.
same exact feeling here
Around 99% of the children that lived in Gaza when the video was made, remain alive today.
Care to do some maths before posting dumb comments?
Yeah i also had the same thought.
Very unfortunate their parents voted in Hamas in 2006. Never would have happened.
@@AEVMU What you meant to say is that it's very unfortunate that their country was occupied which lead to their displacement which gave a chance for a group like hamas to even exist.
FTFY.
It’s so sad to know that there’s a chance these kids are no longer with us.
Stop falling fro propaganda
@@stan3449 Is killing innocent children are part of Israhell propaganda?
It really is. And it makes me sad/mad that Hamas uses children as human shields to protect military locations.
@@JoeOrwig Here comes another brainwashed fools
@@JoeOrwig Like blaming the Jews for the Holocaust. You Zionists are fully demented.
"Is there a dream bigger than going back home?"
My heart.
I imagine the hostages currently held in Gaza, kids and BABIES included, feel the same way.
@@mrtelevision8079 stop making this about yourself, its insane with you people, hamas offered to release them and the occupation government declined, and hamas stated today they will be releasing all the women and children even though your government doesnt want them
@@mrtelevision8079Hamas and Your beautiful Israel are both fascists and terrorists. But Israel is worse than Hitler even
@@Buzzmanthegreat You mean they didn't ask anything for that? Can you share the source? As far as I am aware they offered to release 70 hostages, not all hostages, for ceasefire for 5 days.
Stop trolling please. If you make idiotic claims then show your sources or move on.@@Buzzmanthegreat
It's incredible that having Palestinian children talking about their dreams for the future must be labelled an opinion piece. I hope these kids are still alive.
Excellent point. They don't want to make their masters upset though.
3900 are not. Many more will be traumatized for life. What israel is imposing on Gaza is halocaust level horror..
There are videos of children there shouting antisemitic threats of genocide to Jews and Israelis. Want the link?
Israel is a terrorist state. Have you heard what an Israeli minister said? They want to drop the Atomic bomb on Gaza. This is worst than the Holocaust, they can't keep playing that card anymore
@@BSU55 And I hope god opens your heart to the evils that have been committed against them for 16 Years and the terrors that have been committed against them since 1967. And the horrors they had to endure in 1947-1949.
May god lead you to the righteous path and help create a better future for everyone.
Is there a dream bigger than to go home?
I felt it to my core. I felt it, i felt that this young soul at this young age is asking for something which he should have got it from his birth. Their dreams are simple and all connected to their people and their homeland.
Well going home is the very basic core of Zionism (just look it up, there are different interpretations of it but this is the very basic root). So in theory you follow the idea that people are connected to land through generations by tales and tradition? Great, why do you only grant it to Palestinians?
All parties should have access to the land, the ones whose homes it once was and now is again and those who made it home in the intermediate time. Arabs who didn't joined attempted genocide 1947-1948 still live in democracy, freedom and prosperity in Israel. Thus, it is possible, but it is hard if leaders (specific Hamas in Gaza) have genocide of Jews as point 1 and no negotiation with Israel as part 2 in their founding charta. Which also caused right wing hardliners to be in the Israel govt. as counterbalance due to security concerns.
This generation of leaders are profiting too much from the status quo on both sides. Right wing parties need security concerns to be elected, humanitarian aid is the biggest single source of income for the region and to fill up their own pockets. It is time for a bottom up approach where people from both sides sit together and calmly discuss with each other with respect about the future and make this happen.
@@PhilWill903Nonsense. Just racist, Zionist nonsense. These people were kicked out at gunpoint from their homes to make way for a master, sorry chosen race.
You compare that to "I converted to Judaism so I have magical connections to people who lived 3000 years ago" (aka Zionism)
he is home.
@alexpaynter5176 nah, lots of Gaza are refugees from all Palestine to what is now isreal or occupied by like the west bank. They can't go to visit their relatives in the west bank or Jerusalem. But I assume you mtf zionist settler your whole country built on colonial ideology
i m incredibly impressed by the level of maturity and modesty of these young children... may god help them the world failed them we all failed them i m so sorry little angels
Tears streamed as I watched this. Children should NEVER have to suffer for the failings of the politicians. I kept thinking is this child still alive today?
same. probably not, and even if so they have a much tougher road ahead.
sadness beyond words
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I tried to fight that same thought; I want to believe that they're alive and maybe their families got out long before Oct. 7th
@@MGrizz Antisemitism is rife in Gaza, Palestine, and every other Islamic nation in the Middle East. How do I know? I worked throughout the Middle East for ten years and have seen the Jewish hatred for myself.
@@aceboogisback9946 because the worst thing that could happen is that they will hate Israel not that they live their whole life ina concentration camp and lose their life in it ... the racism runs deep ... those are innocent children .. you have the heart to hear their dreams then say something like that i dont know how anyone can think like that
Its crazy how their dreams are just simple things we all take for granted.
So true
So do the Gazans, because if they cared about themselves and their children more than they hate Israel, they would live in peace and have their own country by now.
@@aceboogisback9946 do some research and be better
@@aceboogisback9946just...shut up dude
@@aceboogisback9946 if someone hate you ? at least ask yourself once why
No child should ever have to utter the words, "I hope to God we stay alive" 😢🙏😭
its sad that they still holding a 1 year old baby and 4 year old brother in captivity!
These kids are so highly intelligent and mature in their thoughts. I hope they are still alive and they will prosper in their country.
The fact that these children could be among the 4,000 children killed in this genocide breaks my heart.
We must remind ourselves that they are not just numbers. Each of the 4,000 children who were killed had dreams and aspirations just like these, their dreams are all built on what they suffer.
More than 4,000* 😢
@@hebaebrahem1358 Unfortunately, the number is still increasing insanely 💔
children on both sides are suffering, especially parents. Hamas soldier literally cut of a baby right at its birth and asked the reporter "what came first". This group is so monstreous, be glad that not every Palestinian is in favor of them.
@@LovedLamb
There is no room for more lies, the entire world has known your truth.
@@LovedLamb stop… Israelis sleep safe at night thinks to the iron doom Israelis aren’t loosing the kids
i'm absolutely stunned that the NYT actually made something like this to actually humanize the Palestinian kids. good on them
Yes..the world should know how suffering these kids now physically and mentally
Western media shares falling drastically, they are losing credibility due to the truth are all out there thanks to Tiktok, X, IG etc. cant hold back the evil narrative anymore.
welp no one and I say no one hates the Palestinians or blames them, but you can not support Hamas and gaslight reporters traumas. Just cuz they don't want to share a graphic picture, which is perverse like why would you want to see dead corpses?? does not mean that they are lying, espcially cuz they have no reason to lie.
Unfortunately it's a very low bar for western media. But yes, I'm also really pleased they showed this!
fun fact: there is a plenty of video on cnn or nyt that looks pro-palestine and under all of those videos there are comments like yours. When you will realize that western media are objective even in the articles which doesn't match with your bias?
"Is there a bigger dream then returning homes" , it got into my heart.
its sad that they still holding a 1 year old baby and 4 year old brother in captivity!
"Is there a dream bigger than getting our babies back?
the last one just broke me, i cannot stop sobbing.
its sad that they still holding a 1 year old baby and 4 year old brother in captivity!
"Is there a dream bigger than getting our babies back?
Breaks my heart that some of those dreams may not even exist anymore 😢 💔
Yeah 😥😥😥😥
It breaks me 💔
That made me cry.
@@natural5584 would it matter if it were your kid? Thought so
😔
One of the children was asked by a reporter what he wanted to be when he grew up. He told him, "We in Palestine do not grow old. We die young." 💔
May Allah save them!
Oh God, no!
Life expectancy in Gaza is 74 for men and 77 for women. It's higher than in Egypt.
@@ImberFatalisidiot
He is referring about bombing the house of Palestinians
Yes, that's if they survive the bombings and the siege in Gaza rn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Gaza_City@@ImberFatalis
"Is there any dream bigger than returning home?" Chills. No child should have to endure war - I pray that all these children get to achieve their dreams and that Palestine will finally be free in their lifetime
Sorry to tell you but Palestine will never be free it will always be Israel but the Palestines will be able to live in peace when hamas will be gone
@@Linoynooyso Palestinians should live in forever state of occupation, no rights but to live as second class for the rest of their lives
no never. never said that idc if it will be called israel or palestinian i care for the people being safe and the only people that is not safe right now is gaza but people spent more time hating jews and isrealis rather than hating the hamas and as well israel goverment. but isreal stop bombing since they got inside gaza@@user-sn7wg6vc5m
bro Israel gave birth to Hamas
Hamas strted as an opposition against Israel to stop the war and free the Palestinians
But as Israel brutality grew this changed the Hearts of Palestinians... Therefore Hamas exploited the hate and grew in number.... I wonder who should be accused cuz Hamas did not exist before 1987 and existed before 7 October. Palestine has existed since 1948@@Linoynooy
"Is there a bigger dream than going home?". Completely felt that.
its sad that they still holding a 1 year old baby and 4 year old brother in captivity!
"Is there a dream bigger than getting our babies back?
Heartbreaking to think that some of these kids are already dead.
Israel is a terrorist state. Stop colonialism. Stop racism. End the occupation. Stop the genocide now! Free Palestine!
@@Abida_mar636how?
@@Abida_mar636 The right side of History does not have Nazis in it.
And Israelis are Nazis.
@@hagai200You have already been brainwashed, they are children whose dreams are simple, think a little correctly, they are being brutally bombed, be human for once.
@@mohamedfathi6351 nope, i am not. The western media do not like to think that they are grown to be either terrorists or children-creating machine. Even in Israel it was the conception, turned to be completely wrong. I'm uber sad for them but since nobody wants to take care of the palestinians nothing will ever change
"Is there a dream bigger than going back home" - It just broke my heart
True. But there are many populations around the world (Armenians, Somalis, Iraqi Christians, etc) that have little choice but to flee their homes. In 1947, the British tore off a huge chunk of land from India at Independence and created a "homeland" for Muslims called Pakistan. Fifteen million were dispossessed and one million were slaughtered. It is considered the greatest human displacement EVER. But those who lost their land seventy six years ago are mostly not embittered militants organizing cross-border massacres as a sign of "resistance". Well, at least the Indians are not....
In the Indian subcontinent, rather ironically, the people that GOT the homeland regularly carry out terrorist attacks in Indian Kashmir and Pashtun Afghanistan. Pakistan held themselves out as an "ally" to USA after 9/11 to get hundreds of millions in foreign aid, while giving refuge to Saudi 9/11 mastermind, Usama Bin Laden. So, expecting one's land back after seventy six years of lost wars strikes me as foolish.
i can understand your point of view but at least the pakistani were muslims to begin with so they just got seperated from their mother land not deported off the land and still being attacked and bombed to this day @@a.humanrightsactivist
@@kabtnimahdi9000 Those Muslims did not have a "motherland" prior to 1947. Pakistan was literally created by Pakistan's founder kissing the feet of white British colonialists. Islam is not native to the Indian subcontinent, unlike Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Jain religions. Islam was forced on inhabitants of Indian subcontinent by waves of Muslim rulers from Central Asia, etc. Yet, though Islam was forced on locals by despotic rulers, Britain decided OVERNIGHT to dispossess 15 million of their land to give Muslims a "homeland". And seventy six years later, noone has gotten their land back. Land grabs happen all the time. Look at Ukraine.
😢😢
@@a.humanrightsactivist kissing feets of british? What is your country??
Dude! I cried when the last kid said "Is there a bigger dream than returning home?" I just can't! 😭😭😭
its sad that they still holding a 1 year old baby and 4 year old brother in captivity!
"Is there a dream bigger than getting our babies back?
This video make me cry. Beautiful kids. Want to believe every one is safe.
"Is there a dream bigger than going back home"
The fact that littlest girl seemed to think war is normal because she wants to become a doctor and treat the injured. That's all she's known since she was born.
"Is there a bigger dream than going back home?" This kid got me! 😢
Watching this on thanksgiving, me complaining that I have felt overworked and burned out because of my marketing job during the black friday holiday, really there's a lot to be grateful for, thank you god for the life you've given to me, this kids would dream to have the same opportunities as I have, I hope the children of gaza find peace one day, really I hope they will!!! Please God, let them have peace, they just want to live in peace.
It is beyond words to know some of these children have mostly likely been killed by Netanyahu’s war crimes.
Not just Netanyahoo alone, but a VERY sizable chunk of the Israeli population who fully support the genocide.
I know...I was thinking the same thing :(
@bbabbich3467
That's the logic of the wife beater.
"She made me do it!"
Imagine there are Israeli children still being held hostages by Hamas...😢
@@ironbutterfly12imagine there are children in israeli prisons😢
Oh these kids...
They didn't say a word of hate or anger...which is a miracle in itself as they were born to war and unrest.
MayAllah bless them all here in this world and hereafter.
“The Jewish occupation” inflicts guilt upon all Jewish people for the acts of Israel
@SkorpleSlop as the zionists position themselves as makers of the "Jewish homeland" she is just making a statement of fact and not hatred, but you're trying very hard to find something, anything in a little girls speech that would fit your narrative. Meanwhile, actual videos of kids in Israel "all Arabs should d!e".
@@SkorpleSlop The occupiers identify themselves as Jewish. If I say the Jews in IDF are bad, doesn't mean the civillians in occupied Palestine are bad too. It doesn't mean Jews in US, UK or anywhere are bad too. It is like not all Jews are bad, but the ones in support or part of IDF and occupied Palestine government are all Jews, so they're bad, but that doesn't mean everyone who is Jewish is bad.
@@SkorpleSlop you serious? the girl wasnt spewing hate she was just talking bro
@@SkorpleSlop Ye, that one part makes everything happening now justified you totally right.
Is it just Hamas that is getting bombed or innocent people mostly. Do some research on other things before you write stuff like this.
I don't care if there is 99 hamas in a building with 1 kid you just don't bomb that building. (and that is making it as fair as possible which they are not)
You just straight evil.
and we don't even know the kids that appear in this video still alive or not
We also don't know how many of them joined Hamas as terrorists.
Israel doesn't target civilians. Israel attacks terrorists, and it's the terrorists like Hamas who target civilians, and use civilians as human shields, and recruits children to fight for them.
NYT actually humanizing Palestinains, i cant believe this is happening in my life time.
These precious children don't look like terrorists to me, yet they make up 50% of the population of Gaza. Thank you for putting a human face to the constant messaging of all Palestinians being Hamas terrorists. I pray their dreams come true.
If you analyze their answer clearly, they were thought one -sided, their parents don't teach them about why Israel bomb their homes. Unlike other refugees, like Ukrainian children, Afghanistan children and many more, they accepted that they don't have a home/ properties after a war. Palestinian taught their children that they still own the land that they lost during the war and they don't taught their children that Israel fought the war and claim Gaza from Egypt, East Jesuralem and west Bank from Jordan and Gave these place to the Palestinian.."Israel got Gaza and West Bank from Egypt and Jordan as "war trophy "..
I asked a Moroccan why Spain is occupying half of their land ?? She says, we are defeated, they own the land now..
@@bella-hi4ooyah, Ben Shapiro would destroy these children in the marketplace of ideas
@@bella-hi4oo what nonsense is this? Israeli movements occupied palestine by killing its people and kicking them out of their homes. Any person who read a little bit history can see that egypt, jordan and lebanon where fighting israel in order to give the land back to the palestinians. You are obviously brainwashed into thinking that what happened in 1948 was a war. It wasn't. It was genocide against the palestinians . Watch the short film altantora which was produced by an israeli by the way, and you can see the truth. The zionist movement brought people from europe and all over the world and gave them the palestinian's home.
@@bella-hi4ooso if Palestinians win the war and win over the entire land of iseael by your logic its "war trophy" so its fair and zionists should stop whining about it then right?
The fact that they asked the children in 2021 and she replied this 1:57 shows that the war didn't start on Oct 7 and that the people in gaza and Palestine have been dealing with this for decades
They shouldn't have attacked Israel in 48 and they shouldn't have attacked on october 7th.
Who? These children?
Attacking Israel in 48? Oh boy, not the sharpest tool in the box, I see. Israel didn't even exist before 48 to be attacked. It was established in 48 by destroying the Palestinians towns, villages, and cities to take the land. The Zionists attacked Palestinians and established on an occupied land. That's how Israel came to exist in 48@@Sam_Guevenne
@@Sam_Guevenne you should read a history 😂😂😂😂😂 israel occupied palestin in 1948
@@Sam_Guevenne did you get this information from the 3d-animated hamas base under that hospital?
I literally cry out load😭
Can't help it
Look at all these children, all them want is to be safe, to return to their homes😭
Why can't the simplest requirement met?
The answer is simple: Israel has the right to defend itself
@@mohammednaeli3003 if you think the murdering of 32 thousand innocent people is self defense, you need help.
I’m a kid from Israel, and seeing this breaks my heart. Seeing little kids wanting to be all types of things when they grow up to help their people, especially during the war, god it’s heartbreaking. Many prayers and condolences to all the innocent families on both sides being bombed and killed. Inshallah this all ends soon and we have peace.💖
As Arab, thank you for having such a beautiful heart
@@Barakeh you’re most welcome.💗
Ure from Occupied Palestine*
Israel is not real, it's an idea built on the bones of these kids and their broken dreams
@@someone3309 more than 60% percent of the jews in israel are refugees from muslim countries. do they also desreve to go back to their old homes in egypt, iran,iraq,syria,morocoo?
These are the lives that are suffering. Thank
You for showing us that there’s still some media outlets showcasing perspectives of those affected in Gaza.
I feel for them but I also feel for Israeli civilians. Why should Israeli suffer from religious extremism in their neighborhood? Israelis are growing, living a good life but then these animals living in their neighborhood are constantly disturbing them so if they have the power to deal with them then I think no one in the world should stop Israel from doing what they think will solve their problem.
they are suffering because they spend 80% time in Quran. 20% time in eating and sleeping.
@@RomitDholakia5you disgust me, palestians are not extremist, you have been brainwashed like usual.
@@Allah72hoorsuppliereven if that were true so what? What's wrong with having a connection with god? You terrorist supporter.
animals? so you are dehumanizing them? what makes you different from the n@z!s? @@RomitDholakia5
Hey NYT, in 2022 you ran a piece on Ukraine quoting Olha Koba, a psychologist in Kyiv, who said that “anger and hate in this situation is a normal reaction" to aggression and illegal occupation and is "important to vaildate". Looking forward to your upcoming piece validating the same human emotion among the 91% of Gaza's kids suffering from PTSD. Thanks in advance.
this shud get pinned honestly
You are dreaming.
Don´t count on it.
I will be waiting for this report from this "independent media company" who "only seek the truth".
Oppression, occupation, and racism is what turns people into extremism the US government invaded Iraq and helped create ISIS. Hamas was created in 1987 after two decades of Israeli occupation (80% of the people being themselves or their families displaced in 1984 from over 250 villages). The only solution to extremism is justice, instead the US and Israel are convinced you can just keep bombing people.
This is so heart breaking 😢As a Korean as human I stand with Palestine. Free Palestine 🙏
a̶s̶ a̶ k̶o̶r̶e̶a̶n̶ as a human
♥
It's okay that you are pro-Palestine. But you should know that supporting Hamas is about the same as supporting the leader of North Korea
@@spacescookiesbut it will cause him to think, he doesn't want that :(
Thanks bro😔😔😔I'm support Palestine too
Open your heart and eyes guys!
May these precious children's dreams come true
islam is a cancer! they will reproduce new people much faster than christians people. so don't worry enough!
the sad thing is that some of them are probably already dead
Ameen
They are definitely dead now ...
Omg
I cry for Palestine especially for the precious children killed, buried alive, starving, orphaned, homeless, foever traumatized... all their hopes and dreams halted by these atrocities being commited for decades now, this conflict/war did not start on October 7th...
Exactly
Please, let's not call it a conflict or a war. It's a genocide in a concentration camp.
@Roniixxterrorist calling the oppressed terrorists....unheard of!
It started 75 years ago against Israel
@@jasperchance3382 When Europe was killing Jews then Palestine welcomed them... So, it's from 75 years Palestinians are suffering. How inhumane these people(people who support and do genocide regardless of what their religion is) are they are doing same with Palestinians what Hitler did to them.
I wept watching this. I think there's no more humanity left in this word. How my heart aches to type these words!
The last kid words is really bounce my heart n mind 😢
If they are sons & daughters of terrorists. Why could their parents not influence their dreams?
How come they want to be engineers,doctors, and teachers?
They want to be part of a civil society that lives peacefully. Is that so much to ask for?
I support Palestine for a lifetime because they deserve freedom of thought,speech & action.
They deserve a land of their own
A home of their own
A life of their own
Они - прекрасные дети. Не надо белое называть черным. Любите мир и людей.
Террористы сидят в белом доме в Вашингтоне.
Actually, some of the kids in Gaza are terrorists too. Hamas has been actively recruiting children as terrorists for decades now.
@@noellesilva-ve7kh у них хотят отнять землю. Палестина слабее израиля. У израиля поддержка в крупных финансовых , политических кругах. Поэтому спор неуместен. Я желаю прекраснрму народу свободы, а Израилю научиться жить в мире .
Well said
OMG youre so right
How many of these children, are buried under rubble? I’m genuinely in grief.
This video broke my heart into million pieces!
Knowing that half of them might be ones died in this genocide.
May Allah grant mercy upon the people of gaza and the children💔
the fact that this was filmed two years ago and we don't know if they are still alive or not makes me cry so bad. imagine how many children dreamt of being an engineer or a doctor or to travel but they are dead now. as i wrote this comment there is more than 4000 children the idf has killed, 4000 dreams have been wrecked in the name of self defence. what a disgusting excuse
Imagine how many of these children could be doctors or engineers if their leaders had focused on creating opportunities for them instead of devoting every resource to attacking Israel.
@@yisraelwoolf2936 the conditions they live in in Gaza and WB do not allow them to prosper. when everything they hav has to trickle down and get filtered through israel, it becomes insufficient to prosper. SO yes, only if their "occupier" let them determine their own future instead of bombing and stealing their land. When i say land, i do not mean the 1948 land. I mean the land of WB and gaza which Israel still keeps stealing everyday and every year.
Have you seen videos of Gaza before Oct. 7th? They had shopping malls, cafes, hotels, and villas. If anyone did not allow them to prosper, it was Hamas, which stole billions in foreign aid that was meant to develop the Gazan society and economy. By the way, there was no blockade before 2007- it only started after Hamas began firing rockets. Another poor decision.@@karmasangayphuntsho2155
The fact the innocent child said that he will take his people to America is really crushing the heart 0:58 . I wish he knew ....😭😭😭😭
America took him & his people out..
@@CWanThere are 1.5 million to 2 million Gazans. Millions more Palestinians live in Lebanon, Jordan, and other nations. Many Arabs live in Israel. Noone "took his people out". This is a war. Unwittingly, civilians near military targets 🎯 get injured or killed.
I honestly felt his childlike ❤ of travel and thought it an admirable dream.
Fact 1 : Isr aeli forces have killed at least 4,237 Palest!ta!ns children in G@za in one month. MOH of Gaza 11/7/23
Fact 2 :”A child k!lled on average every 10 minutes on Gaza strips” WHO Chief 11/10/2023
Facts 3: “ No place safe for children in G@za”UNICEF 11/12/23
Fact 4: Collective punishment is a war crime
He actually said “To go to America and smell air” he meant fresh air
'To be a princess in a castle above the clouds, in a city made of sweets, chocolate and marshmallows'........that's what children should be dreaming of-God bless these children!
Yeah traditional Muslim children not modern day liberal,secular and atheist children
@@user-pd6bf2no3w why so angry? why so quick to divide people?
@@user-pd6bf2no3w at least our children don't identify as a dog 😂😂😂😂
@@starksvenskim muslim and all children around the world are considered muslim cause they are subbmiting to the creator without even knowing thats why they have beautiful heart cause the one who subbmit to God Almighty hes heart will be at peace just like a child islam literaly means subbmision to the one and only God Allah
@@amineamine-zh1xk There is no creator, there is no god, not every child submits to imaginary subject, but of course many of the them are easily deceived.
it hits different when you realise the child on your screen right now is probably dead.
And just think, every one of them would be alive if Hamas and their affiliates didn't commit massacres against Israel, then use the Arab children as human shields, all while stealing all of the international aid that the children in hospitals need to live.
@@lennardchurch8483from Israel from this world😊
Sure, imagine if the Zionists had not fled European countries
90 years ago, they slaughtered the indigenous people, when there was no need for Hamas and resistance at all
It did not start on October 7, it started 90 years ago. You are killers and animals supported by the West.
The fact that some of these kids, if not all could be dead right now, got me shivering.
Peace love and respect to everyone in Gaza and the West Bank, Solidarity from Ireland
My respect for the Irish have increased thousands folds. Not everyone cow tow before the hegemony. ❤
Thanks alot ❤ love from palestine ( west bank )
@shahd7295 your very welcome, I hope to visit westbank some day. Stay safe, much love
@@shysonofficial you are more than welcome at any time , at any place ❤️❤️
Thanks for every thing you do for defending our people ,, we appreciate it
@shahd7295 Thank you so much ❤️ Kind people of palestine 🇵🇸 will stand with you for the rest of my life
Their dreams are the same as all children around the world - regardless of religion, race, or nationality, hopefully, they can have the peace and the freedom to pursue them.
sorry but no their dreams are not the same as all children around the world their dreams is to become doctors or engineer to help with what the occupation done to them children around the world want to be doctors to help ppl but palestinian kids want to be doctors to help ppl who get bombed and shot that is not the same dream
children around the world most of them don't have a dream to go back home like these children so pls don't compare
Their dreams are not the same as other children’s around the world. They’re suffering. They’re dying. They’re terrified that no one will live.
Haha one of those "all lives matter" arguments
Glad to see the comments with exactly what I was going to say. No, their dreams are not the same 🙄 Children in other parts of the world don't have to be scared for their lives.
@@gansitomarinela7472 On which earth do you live?
I hope these children are safe❤
Powerful beyond words. Thank you for making this
The Palestinians are the most resilient people in the world. Breaks my heart, especially because I'm complicit via my tax dollars in their misery.
The "Palestinians" are the most made up people in the world.
Nah theyre just the dumbest
@Roniixx
You do make a fair point, they did survive the holocaust. So from a historical perspective, true. But as of late, Palestinians are more resilient.
You need to call your senators and congressmen to let them know you don't support this, and ask for a ceasefire. It's one of the only ways we can truly make our voices heard.
They're not resiliant, they are being used by Arabs to further their cause to annihilate Israel.
💔 OMG The little boy said, "Is there a dream bigger than going back home? " 😢😢😢
more mature tan so called leaders!
europe leader is more childish than this children
This interview was two years ago ,And they were all talking for their need for peace, freedom,liberating and building their Country,and the injustice of Isreal
So do you really think that the war only started on October 7!!!!?
Every single war between Arabs and Israel was started by the Arabs, and every single ceasefire between the Arabs and Israel was broken by the Arabs.
The Arabs chose terrorists who consistently attack Israeli civilians to lead them. Israel only targets the terrorists, and consistently give warnings to the Arab civilians to leave the target zones before attacking them.
The children incorrectly blame Israel, because they've been indoctrinated by the Arab terrorists who created the hardships they live in.
everyday i think of the children in gaza and pray for them. i think of their futures, their family, their hopes and dreams, and the many lives taken every day. i am heartbroken writing this comment because this is not new, these poor children have suffered for years.. how many lives until it stops 😢
Me too, 80 days have passed since the beginning of the genocide, and I have not tired of following their news eagerly, and sadness squeezes my heart tightly.
@@OMAIMA_55 me too 💔💔
I cry for these innocent children. They deserve to live in peace.
These children are more sincere than their ages...
I can't imagine just how scared these babies are 😭😭God protect them 😭
What about the dozens of babies found beheaded or without limbs. What about the ones that were found in ovens. What about the Israeli babies' bodies that were so destroyed, they couldn't even be identified. Go do some research bud.
This is so powerful. No matter what how hard the times are, children will always find a little childhood of their own in it, and i want to remeber this, with the greatest suffering comes the greatest strength to turn that suffering into hope to make the world a better place.
"To build my country and let it prosper. To see the country, under my hands, develop into a beautiful place."
That will happen as soon as you get rid of Hamas.
@@yisraelwoolf2936Before 2005, 21 Israeli settlements occupied about 35% of the area of the Gaza Strip.. that's before Hamas took control. They want the city for themselves and expelling its inhabitants..
@@yisraelwoolf2936 get rid of Israel occupation as well
@@maxjam4747 you mean the occupation where Israel pulled out in 2005?
@@yisraelwoolf2936 pulled out from lands belong to Palestinians, Where they killed and displaced its owners and ethnically cleansed entire villages. You may be able to lie to some Idiots, but you cannot erase the history,History alone is the only witness to your barbarism and Zionism fueled by your racist religion towards other human races.
it's crazy to think that those very same *children* will not be alive to see their *dreams come true*
Is there a dream bigger than going home??? What an answer ! What beautiful people yet they’ve been dehumanized for decades?!! I pray for them everyday ! No child deserves to long for freedom, cause we are all born Free and equal ! ❤️
You're presenting severely misleading propaganda. The Jewish people dreamed of going home to their country for thousands of years, and only got the chance to return and re-establish it after WW2, and they legally purchased land they re-established it on. All of the decades since then has been a repeated cycle of Arab terrorists launching murderous attacks on the Israelis, then Israel defending themselves, but the Arab terrorists hiding among their civilians, using Arab children as human shields.
These children are only being dehumanized by the terrorists their parents freely elected to be their leaders.
20% of all Israeli citizens are Arabs who have full rights and privileges equal to the Jewish Israelis. If the Arab people of Gaza and the West Bank accepted Israel's right to exist, and chose to live peacefully alongside the Jews, they'd have the same freedom and prosperity as those Arab Israelis. Unfortunately for the Arab children, their parents and grandparents repeatedly choose death and destruction, and are indoctrinating their children to make the same choices.
People ask how many of these children are still alive... but I'd ask them back, since this was made 7 years ago, and these children are now young adults, how many of them are now part of Hamas, murdering Israeli civilians and using today's children as human shields?
Their beatiful smiles are so innocent and pure, I wish they could smile this way everyday.
2:20 I agree. There is no dream bigger than going back home. We are nothing but travelers waiting for our turn to go back home. 😔
And it' s better not to see kids perish on our way Home. That's just unbearable.
It’s reaffirming to see that hardship/struggle makes you grow up so fast. They are wise beyond their age and hopeful to one day see peace
These children should not have had to “grow up fast”
How is their trauma reaffirming to you?
@@rebekahmencia9944 Because these kids will be strong and resilient.
Trauma is the reason why Palestinians are still fighting after 75 years.
This has to be the most inhuman take in this whole matter, and I'm baffled how 152 people agreed with this comment, you are reaffirming what exactly??
How is this in any way a "good" thing? There is no "good" side in any of this, stop romanticizing tragedy.
Not everyone can help them
But at least we can feel their pain & pray for them.
Everyone is human after all ❤
This really brought a tear to my eyes.
Children of the light. May you always be safe and well. Where ever you may be, may peace be upon you.
To think that some of these children are probably dead now hurts my heart
It's hard to miss the pain in the eyes of the kids, may God Almighty keep them safe.
Thank you for this 😢❤
Such a shame that a lot of those Gazan kids won’t ever achieve their dreams, thanks to the inhumane and brutal life Israel subjects them to on the daily. But then wonders “how the heck were they radicalized and why do they hate us so much?”
Truly said
Maybe dont put babies in ovens and then unalive your own people. I feel like Hamas is coercing you to say this right now.
Just when I didn't think I could hate this war any more than I do, I had to see this. 😟
This is heartbreaking, thank you NYT for sharing I must give credit where credit is due.
How many of these beautiful children are now still alive? How many are injured? How many lost a parent, sister, brother, friends? How many have their dreams & hope crushed? How many of our so called politicians & media look at them as Children?
They are so mature❤
they're nothing but pure children not (childrenof the darkness) as zionists referred to..just children
,no child should live and experience this torment and horrible trauma. I've seen videos of the the violent bombing on Gaza and my soul almost left my body from fear while im behind my phone screen. how about these angels who live this horror every day? This makes me think, are these children in this video even still alive?? My heart is broken for these children. I wish I could hold and protect them all inside me ,I'm so sorry this cruel world has failed you 💔
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I cried 😭. 0:33 " Because of the war ".
A kid said it. She wants to treat people affected by... the war. And she's just a kid
Oh what have we done to this world? 😭😭😭
Don't these innocent children have a chance to achieve their dreams? How long will we continue to watch all these dreams shatter without being able to lift a finger for them?
This film is heartbreaking! Why do the Israelies think they love their children more than the Palastinians do? All children are precious and the future of our world!❤
They are all Israeli, some need to be accepted by Arab countries
@@PortugalZeroworldcup
Israel has absolutely zero intention on hurting kids. they have nothing to gain from killing civilians, and everything to lose. They do everything in their power to destroy Hamas and avoid killing civilians.
But hamas does absolutely nothing to protect the population. Nothing. Because unlike israel, Hamas knows that the more palestinians die the more pressure the world will put on israel to do a cease fire. and for hamas, a cease fire is only temporary so they can rebuild and start another war 2-3 years later. This has been the case since hamas took power in 2005 in Gaza.Also, during cease fire, Hamas gets humanitarian fundings which they use to prepare better for the next war. most of the money doesnt to the people.
So Hamas has everything to gain from having as many dead palestinians as possible. This is why they build tunnels and their greatest stocks of rockets underneath hospitals, this is why Hamas travels in ambulances in the middle of ambulance convoys where wounded are moved, this is why there isnt a single bomb shelter in gaza, this is why hamas tells the civilians to stay in the combat zone and sacrifice themselves as martyrs.
The high death toll in Gaza is the desired outcome for Hamas, and they are doing everything they can to make sure it's as high as possible.
@@dglvr2006don't you get tired with the human shield argument?
@@dglvr2006Get your head checked
@@chains84 they are israeli bots
There's something about kids that have grown up in a warzone that gives them an edge and a worldliness not seen in other circumstances. It's an entire lifetime of hardship and struggle manifested in the body of a child. It's very unnerving and yet utterly fascinating at the same time.
It's called being traumatized.
ever heard about school? also a warzone.
go outside and realized how privileged you are to have what you have@@LovedLamb
@@BALLBOY52 in my country Muslims are more privileged than me. They can call you a racist if you call their behaviour out, they have mosques everywhere, they have even more temples than my people. They have bigger houses yet if you go to any of their countries you won't be allowed to talk about Jesus, wear a cross and churches won't be allowed and then they cry about people like me avoiding countries like theirs. The ones who should check their privileges are the Muslim right extremists in a western country. Crying about oppression even tho they are openly antisemitic and vandalize synagogues and promoting hate.
But hey getting molested as a child by them and discriminated also while they scream Free Palestinian even tho they don't actually care about Palestinians and support Hamas is not hypocritical at all isn't it?
@@LovedLamb crazy that you compare a school to a warzone. Did you have a look at the clips they showed, is that what your school is like? Towers collapsing, smoke an debris everywhere? Grow up
Few of the kids you see on the screen have already been buried under due to this attack
Thank you for your professionnel job and for your humanity ...
2:10 home is where the heart is. That kid is more wise then most, I as a Catholic, pray for him
"Is there a dream bigger than going home?" Hearing this breaks my heart.
I hope these kids are all still alive today and one day get pursue their dreams.♡
Is there a dream bigger than going back home?
I hope these kids are safe and hopefully one day they'll be able to live in their own Homeland. 💗
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home
The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy
All of these children are as beautiful as their dreams and I pray their dreams manifest into reality. All children deserve love, peace and to know they are safe.
SHAME ON USA
Ask yourself, whose fault is it that they don't have a real chance to achieve any of their goals? If you did not answer Hamas you're ignorant at best
This is reporting news with a heart.
Im just crying in public now
You have a heart.
May God awaken the hearts of the criminals who take away innocent lives. What infernal acts! I just can' t believe that's real life and not a horror movie I watch every day in October and November 2023. God! Are these people people?
My heart bleeds for these innocent children. They are beautiful and full of dreams just like all other children anywhere in the world. May their dreams come true.
Wow, The New York Times actually painting Palestinians in a human light, and not in the usual disposable fashion. That's a welcomed suprise.
Until now, many children are still suffering, do they have shelter? eat good food? feel peaceful and calm? I hope they get better favors