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Rachel Corrie, American, killed by an Israeli army bulldozer.
Tom Hurndall, British, shot through the head by an Israeli army sniper.
James Miller, British, shot dead by the Israeli army. If foreigners are dying like this in
Gaza, what's happening to the people who live there?
Gaza, a city under siege from Israeli forces. We'd arrived on the eve of the war against
Iraq. We wanted to know how armed Palestinian groups like Hamas, would react.
We happen to be walking home late in the evening. As we walked down the road, suddenly we were
surrounded by these guys on either side of us.
But that wasn't to be the story of the next 40 days. In Gaza, over 1,000,000 Palestinians
live under the gun and most of the guns are Israeli.
The danger we were in didn't come from the Palestinians.
All day long, there's been extraordinary action in the sky. You can hear all of these planes
going up and down. You can see most of them are flying high and now suddenly there's been
a number of explosions. But the planes are still overhead, you can hear them.
The explosions were in a residential area.
A precision missile from an Israeli helicopter had just assassinated a leader of the armed
Palestinian group, Hamas, together with 2 bodyguards.
10 minutes later, helicopters began to circle the crowd.
An Israeli helicopter had fired 2 more missiles at the Hamas leader's car. Shrapnel had ripped
through scores of bystanders. The Israeli defence force announce the elimination of
3 terrorists. No mention of civilian casualties.
10 years ago, Israel gave limited independence to the Palestinians of Gaza. Now, to combat
the armed groups who are based here, Israel has turned Gaza into a battlefield.
This is Makmuud, he's 10 years old. He's got shrapnel in his eye, in his stomach, in his
leg, in his foot, pieces of metal all over his body. He was
playing on his bicycles outside his own house. 47 people had been wounded, many of them children.
4 more people lay dead in the hospital morgue.
When I asked the Israeli defence force why they had fired rockets into the crowd, they
told me they wouldn't comment on security matters.
He's 13 years old.Sandra Jordan This is Mohammed,
Another victim of last night's attack. He's got severe head injuries and
shrapnel in his body. He's in a critical situation, like all of the other people we've filmed
in here.
He might make it, then again, he might not.
This is Alla, aged 15,
another civilian casualty. Every time the Israelis use a missile to assassinate somebody
here, it sends shrapnel flying everywhere and this is
what shrapnel does to the human body.
Alla died shortly after we filmed these pictures.
The next day, the dead were taken from the hospital. Amad Arashram was only 13. His mother
and sister bade him farewell.
Gunmen appeared mourning the dead Hamas leader.
But most of the crowd was there to mourn the death of the innocent youngsters.
The feeling here is that the West accepts this kind of action. It doesn't matter how
much so called collateral damage there is.
Whichever side kills last says it is a response to the one before. In the grim calculus of
this conflict, around 3 Palestinian civilians die for every Israeli killed. It's an equation
that keeps old hatreds fresh.
In the south of Gaza, near the border with Egypt, is the district of Rafah.
This is one of 4 towers that overlook Rafah. They are Israeli army watch posts, people
have been shot from these towers without the Israelis ever coming into Rafah.
The Israeli defence force say the soldiers in the towers target only gunmen. That may
be true but those bullets also kill civilians.
Wait, wait, wait.
Where's it coming from?
Go down, go, go behind.
Behind where?
Where's it coming from?
It's coming from the tower behind the wall and it's so *** scary because the bullets
could bounce anywhere.
We're being shot at by Israelis from a watchtower at the moment. The shooting is just coming
down the street. The danger is if the bullet ricochets, it can hit you. It seems to be
coming straight down. As you can see, all the buildings here are completely pock marked.
This happens every single day down here.
One of them bullets was very close by, very, very close by.
These women are passing by, their children, they're used to it. They think it's quite
normal for these bullets to come flying down this road so they don't even seek cover.
They should. Since September 2000, over 250 people have been killed in Rafah, a third
aged under 18.
We can see the army posts over there and they can certainly see us.
And that's the southern command headquarters of the Israeli Army.
Almost every day, Israeli troops leave their base to bulldoze Palestinian houses.
They say it's to deny terrorists cover. But, most of the houses belong to ordinary Palestinians.
Thousands have lost their homes, some with only moments notice. And there's no compensation.
For 2 years, despite tear gas and bullets, a small group of British and American protestors
from the International Solidarity Movement, has tried to stop the bulldozers.
One of the protesters filmed these pictures. Stop shooting.
I wish that you may learn to love your neighbours and not.
2 days before our visit, a protester had been killed.
Rachel Corrie was the first American to be killed in Gaza.
She was at eye-level with the driver of the bulldozer. She was up, her head and upper
torso were actually above the blade of the bulldozer so he could very clearly see that
she was there, her and her orange fluorescent jacket that she was wearing. But instead of
stopping at this point, he continued forward which buried her legs and pulled her legs
down. And as she got pulled down, she was pulled out of view of the bulldozer driver.
And if he had stopped at this point, he may have only just broken her legs, but he continued
forward anyway until she was sucked all the way underneath the bulldozer.
The Israeli defence force says the driver did not see her.
But Rachel Corrie died because of her own irresponsible and illegal behaviour.
You can see the space underneath the bulldozer. It wasn't the treads that killed
her. She didn't get run over by the treads. It was only the blade.
Either a really gross mistake or a really brutal ***.Alice CoyShe was talking and
her lip was torn.