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Hello
Planeta Cives started rotating a few weeks ago.
We went to the place you voted for,
the refugee camp of Ein El-Helweh, in southern Lebanon.
We are now dealing with the post-production of the documentary film
with my colleague Carlos Arciniega, the film-maker.
However, while we finish setting up the documentary film,
we would like to give you a preview of what we saw there.
This series of reports aims at
showing how the refugees live,
how the everyday life of the beneficiaries from the projects of Cives Mundi is.
And unfortunately, the daily life in a refugee camp
sometimes goes together with violence and death.
Nakba. Killings in southern Lebanon.
May, 15th 2011.
Thousands of Palestinian refugees travel to southern Lebanon, bordered by Israel.
They commemorate the "nakba", the misfortune. It symbolizes the beginning of a long exile.
The commemoration turns into tragedy.
The Israeli army starts shooting at the demonstrators.
It is the beginning of dead and wounded.
Israel – Lebanon border
We were downwards at the border and we weren’t doing anything wrong.
I’m 20. I’ve never seen my country.
This is my country, across the border, and I came to see it.
I went downwards. People started to collect stones and to cast them at their country.
There were three soldiers. They started to move closer to the trees.
First, they shot into the air.
"Stop shooting! We want to see our country! ”we said.
One of us was shot in the leg.
One of my friends cast a stone and was shot in the hand.
A third one was shot dead in the head.
He is a martyr.
The Libanese army breaks up the gathering with shots into the air and smoke bombs.
EIN EL-HELWEH
The Little Palestine.
Soon.
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