Seven Days in Beirut | Al Jazeera World Documentary
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2018
- An Italian-British man spends one week in a Palestinian refugee camp where thousands have lived, stateless, since 1948.
In early 2018, a researcher at the Palestinian Return Centre in London, Pietro Stefanini, attends a conference where he sees a video by a young Palestinian man. In it, Ahmed Shehadeh speaks passionately about the 70-year ordeal he feels his family has faced living stateless in Lebanon.
"I challenge anyone to stay in a refugee camp," he says, "not for 70 years, because we were forced out of Palestine 70 years ago, but for just seven days".
Inspired by Ahmed's challenge, Stefanini takes time out from his day job and travels to the Burj Al Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut - a long-established shanty-like community where around 50,000 Palestinian refugees live - but without Lebanese citizenship. This film documents Pietro's stay, from Ahmed's meeting him at the camp entrance until he departs the alleyways and the maze of overhead electrical cables, notorious for falling and electrocuting residents.
Students my age have graduated from college as doctors and engineers, but they're unemployed," he says. "I studied nursing but I can't find work. That's why we need different citizenship, Lebanese or anything, even if it's Somali or Indian.
Ahmed was born in the camp but his grandfather, Abdullah Shehadeh, was forced out of Palestine during the first Arab-Israeli War in 1948, following the creation of the then new state of Israel. Palestinians refer to this as Al Nakba, 'the catastrophe'. He and his father and siblings went to the border with Lebanon and eventually came to Burj al-Barajneh. The camp was set up by the Red Cross in 1948 to accommodate the influx of Palestinian refugees from what's now northern Israel.
As family patriarch, Abdullah is known as 'Hajj' and assembles his sons, daughters and grandchildren to greet Stefanini. He points mournfully to the picture of his wife of 62 years and says she's being treated in hospital.
"I wish she were here with us today," he says, "to tell you about Palestine, its natural wealth and heritage… She's been with me since 1956. The house is lifeless without her because she's my entire life," he later says, breaking into tears.
Hajj takes Pietro to a gathering of camp elders. A TV screen mounted on the wall plays archival footage of Israeli tanks during the 1948 war.
"Look at what Israel has done to us," says Hajj, "how they've displaced and forced us out of our land".
Stefanini takes in as much camp life as he can in his week-long stay. At 6am, he accompanies Hajj's eight-year-old great granddaughter, Janna, to her only educational option, a school for refugees run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The Palestinian children have to cross Beirut, travelling an hour or more to get an education.
Our homes were demolished," one woman explains. "Our life was destroyed. We still have our keys because we hope we'll go back one day.
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As Lebanese I feel ashamed and sorry for what our Palestinians brothers are enduring. I am out of words, no person should live under such circumstances specially Palestinians who faced the biggest injustice in modern history. The only thing I can say is to wish you a near and victorious return to Palestine, the only place that will preserve your dignity. Free Palestine
haydara haydara we should honour our palestinian refugees in Lebanon and not restrict them etc or treat them like 2nd class
Why should recently-arrived Syrians be allowed to work & not Palestinians. They are all hard workers & better workers than the spoilt Lebanese Brats!
Thank you Peter for this wonderful work, Keep up your great job, but mainly keep up being the wonderful human being you are.
Despite so many hurdles torments they are smiling and hospitable ❤
As a Lebanese Christian living in America, I am embarrassed and sad to see the way the Palestinians have been treated in Lebanon!!
Great video that presents the sensitive human face of the Palestinian people and their mistreatment. This should be on national television.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
I’m born in Lebanon . I’m not Palestinian . This is the most amazing story I have seen in such a long time. I was floored by it . My mother was born in Bethlehem . I’m showing this to her !
sergiola310 this is very emotional for me too, I was born are raised in Australia but im originally from south lebanon
Bello e struggente allo stesso tempo. Quanta dignità e speranza in questa gente. ❤
at 45:00 minutes where my tears fell non stop.. Its such a sad situation.
BeirutYa I cried at the end, I'm originally from Lebanon and these people remind me of my family back there in Lebanon
Dont cry ...stay strong ... one day Palestine will be free
Pietro u r a good person ..thank u for making this video ...
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 this video resonates what’s going on today.
I hope everyone see this video to wetness our people life
This disturbing and yet beautiful documentary reflects the pain of expulsion. It was an emotional rollercoaster, with very touching scenes of genuine love and respect between people who are worlds apart. We (the British) have been and are still pivotal in the turmoil subjected on these people. For those criticising the question 'does Israel have the right to exist', my response is 'why should these people pay the price for that existence?'
As we speak, more Palestinians are being expelled from their homes, creating more refugees. The British government ignore these Israeli crimes and our media vilify one of the few people to speak out about these ongoing aberrations. Thanks Pietro, remember what the Palestinian refugees pleaded.. 'don't forget us'. Anyone with any humanity should not forget the victims of violent ethnic cleansing and treat the 'anti semite' smear for what it is... A distraction to ongoing and historic crimes by the Israeli government.
No words can say how i like this video documentary..godbless
thank you for watching!
I love their way of greeting tho.
btw this hospital problem he was talking about at @33:40 doesn't only happen with Palestinians. It happens with everyone, Lebanese or else
الله معوا يا احمد سمير
*3aaaach a CHA3B ✊ Allahumabarikoum*
Im Indonesian I really want to travelling to Lebanon
Lebanon , together with Japan , has the prettiest landscape in Asia and it is also in the group of the 10 prettiest countries on the Earth ,which are : Lebanon,Greece,Italy,Slovenia,Austria,Switzerland,France,Scotland,Norway and Japan.
You missed Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The most beautiful of all!
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Such brutality for something that had happened to them in the past, is disgusting.
Was it the palestinians responsible for that.
The British did it to suit their needs its not just Palestine even in the Indian subcontinent they split it according to their whims n fancies. Intentionally leaving conflicts behind which to date is not ending
Christian missionaries must work here , take up this as opportunity 😔
I'm from Israel and I would like to have a civilized discussion with Pietro or any body ELSE about the Israeli-Arab conflict to hear their side of the story and present our side of the story. FOR all who see this documantation you must realize that every side has their story and no one is 100% right and just and the other is wrong
No one is saying you're wrong but you're also not right. Israel's sovereignty shouldn't come at the prices of killing and displacing all these people - and to continue doing it even after Israel has more than enough land to support its population? Why?
discussion !!!!!
what the heck you talking about ??
the first 10 Israeli prime minster were born in eastern Europe
it is robbery in broad day light
@@AlMared924 this is exactly why i said a civilized discussion
@@michelbitt1
You will have a civilized dialogue. We promise that as soon as we get rid of the Zionist occupation of our land soon
It's true, no one is 100% right; I think Israel is 1% right. The oppressed have become the oppressors, this is the reality.
Free Palestine
I wonder why they choose to have children in such condition
In many places, even in the most developed and peaceful cities, people lost hope on the future and birth rate falls, fearing that the children will suffer. Palestinians are really very resilient.
selfishness
Isn’t procreations a requirement from God?
@@MayorOfMoetown So only people with recognized rights and a passport are allowed what most people would consider a basic human right, to have a family????
@@joyhecht um, people who aren't in poverty and miserable. Bringing children into that situation purposely, where you know without a doubt they will suffer, is selfish.
next time tell the 7 Arab countries to not attack Israel
Instead, I’ll tell Britain and the UN to not split up a land they don’t own and give it to some European refugees. That sounds like a Better thing to do.
THEN BY YOUR LOGIC , Jordan, Lebanon Qatar, Syria, Saudi Arabia ,Iraq, Pakistan UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain ,morocco, Egypt ,Algeria falls into the same category. so is your problem only Israel ? 🤣🤣@@Sickpack3360
I am an israeli and this is untrue that this land belong to the palastiene . My family came to Israel meny years before it was establish.
The jaws were the original cituzane in this contry until the romens divorce us in year 70 .
We come back to our land and make it very huge sucsess and the only democtracy in the middle east.
I understand the pain of this refugies but the solution is that there will be Lebanon cituzione and not come back to Israel.
what you simply suggest "lebanon cituzione and not come back to israel" caused a civil war
Maybe it would be best not to keep mentioning the huge success, as a justification. It betrays what must be some feeling of guilt, as if deep down you know that your other claims, regarding the legitimacy of your actions, are not quite sufficient.
So it would be appropriate for palestinians to take back israel in the future then
The level of cynicism. 🧐 the Roman Empire only expelled the elite. The Zionist are European. Educate yourself.