Video series highlights life under Israeli control

A Youtube video series shows the full horror of life under Israeli occupation

On March 1, the premier episode of a 90 part series, “Sleepless in Gaza…and Jerusalem” was launched on YouTube, and there are now eight episodes online. The video diary chronicles the lives of four young Palestinian women, Muslim and Christian, two living in Gaza and two in Arab Jerusalem and the West Bank.

The YouTube channel for the video log is at: http://www.youtube.com/user/SleeplessinGaza.

PINA TV Production camera crews are covering Ashira Ramadan, a broadcast journalist based in Jerusalem; Ashira’s friend in Gaza, the documentary film maker Nagham Mohanna; Donna Maria Mattas, a 17 year-old student at the Holy Family School in Gaza who dreams of growing up to be a journalist, and Ala’ Khayo Mkari who works with Caritas in Jerusalem.

The producers say the intention of the series is to allow all who do not live in the occupied territories — Arab East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, as well as the Gaza Strip — to grasp how these four young Palestinian women live daily lives under brutal Israeli occupation.

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Sleeples in Gaza - Trailer

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Sleeples in Gaza - Ep. 1

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Sleeples in Gaza - Ep. 2