Co -officer, Gaza: How to survive Vaarcon
BBCZakaria is 11 years old and lives in Gaza. He believes he saw thousands of bodies from the beginning of the war.
But at age, when children are usually found in the class, Zakaria voluntarily works in one of the few Gaza -al -x functional hospitals.
As a crossing of machines that cross the victims of war between Israel and Hamas go beyond the object in the Central city of Deir al-Bala, Zakaria cleans the way through the crowds to find recently arriving patients and penetrate them for treatment.
In moments, it passes through the corridors of the hospital with stretchers, and later carries a young child inside the trauma.
Several of his students have been killed since the conflict and hanging around the hospital means that Zakaria testifies to shocking scenes. He says he once, after the Israeli strike, he saw the boy in front of him burned to his death.
“I probably saw at least 5,000 bodies. I saw them with my own eyes,” he says to our operator.
Zakaria is one of the children and young people we spent nine months after our BBC Gaza documentary: how to survive Warzone.
This is a movie and we, with a colleague of yousef Hammash and jointly sent from London because Israel has not been allowed to enter the gas lane and report independently since the beginning of the war 16 months ago.
To collect personnel and interviews, we worked two operators living in Gaza – Aged al Faimi and Ibrahim Abu Ihiba – regularly talking to them using messaging apps, online calls and mobile phone networks.
We with yousef wanted to make this documentary to show what a daily life looks like to people trying to survive the horrors of this conflict when it unfolded. We finished shooting a few weeks ago, a day when the current ceasefire began.
We focused on three children and a young woman with a newborn because they are innocent in this war, which went into a shaky pause on January 19, when a The deal to release the hostages between Hamas and Israel came into force.
According to the Ministry of Health Hamas, more than 48,200 people were killed and killed in the onset of Israel. On October 7, 2023, military actions occurred as a result of attacks on Southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and 251 were taken hostage.
By and large, we filmed in the area of South and Central Gaza, designated by the Israeli army as a “humanitarian zone”, where the Palestinians were ordered to go for their own safety. Despite its appointment, the zone itself was impressed almost 100 times between May 2024 to January, According to BBC analysis, check out. Israeli defense forces have said it was aimed at Hamas who work there.
We wanted to know how the kids found food, decided where to sleep and how they were doing while trying to survive.
Abdullah, 13 years old, tells the movie. He speaks well in English, visiting the British school in Gaza before the war and does his best to continue his education.
10 -year -old Renata makes a culinary show on the tiktok with the help of her older sister. They make many types of dishes, though war means they can’t get the proper ingredients and have more than a million followers.
We also watched the 24 -year -old wound who gave birth to a baby girl prematurely. It was moved three times and lives near the hospital with two sons and parents.
Some of the movies also consider how doctors fought to keep people alive in the al-Ax hospital that was Described in January 2024 by British doctors as the only hospital that operates in the central gas.
That’s where we found Zakaria.
Everyone who works at the hospital knows the boy. He is, of course, still a child, not a qualified medical doctor, but he always hangs, waiting for the opportunity to help anyone, hoping that he can get food or money in return.
Sometimes it helps to carry equipment for local journalists, other stretchers with people who have suffered or dying.
If there is a quiet moment, it helps to cleanse blood and dirt from ambulance.
There is no school for him, and he is the only person in his family to make money. He does not remain with them, because they have little food and water, he says, and instead lives on his own in the hospital and sleeps where he can. One night he is in the CT, second in the journalists’ tent or in the back of the ambulance.
There were many nights that he fell asleep hungry.
As far as they are trying, the hospital officers cannot get rid of the chaos of care for the victims.
Zakariya idolize paramedics and wants to be considered part of the team. One of them, he said, takes it under the wing. Whenever he treats Zabaria as a child, he says the boy is upset.
Other employees see the care and attention of which Zakaria pays them, and to patients at the hospital and teach him to give someone IV drops.
In recognition of his efforts, they even make him a miniature set of blue scrubs – in which he is very proud of.
He said trying to make sure that the boy still gets the likeness of childhood, and in the film we follow them on a trip to the beach.
Sitting under the outside branch of the tree, Zakaria pushes at lunch, said he bought. According to him, Shaurma is perfect. The jokes said, this is the only time the boy “closes”.
But they said that Zamaria’s worries saw so much death and destruction that he could never fit into children of his age.
Zakarari himself looks outside childhood.
“I want to be a paramedic,” he says. “But at first I need to get out of here.”
As George Sandoman said
