24 HOURS JERUSALEM – 26’ - PART 5: 2-2:30 pm
05:00:03
... 2pm in Jerusalem... Benzi Ben Shoham visits his parents every day... his sister died in an attack eleven years ago
05:01:58
… 2 min. past 2… in Israel, victims of the war are commemorated… Palestinians observe the day of the prisoner… two societies inhabit Jerusalem, and in between, the frontline…
05:02:17
Up until WWI, Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire... afterwards, it became a British mandated territory... at the centre of the mandate: Jerusalem... after Israeli independence, the city was divided in 1948 – The East became part of Jordan, the West became the capital of Israel ... During the 6 day war in 1967, Israel conquered the Eastern side of the town as well, extended its borders, and declared the whole of Jerusalem to be the capital of the country ... this status is not internationally recognised. According to the UN, East-Jerusalem is an occupied territory and claimed by the Palestinians as their capital.
05:03:20
… UN officer Christof von Toggenburg and his colleague Jihad investigate an incident in the Palestinian refugee camp Aida … Aida is near Bethlehem, directly by the wall…
05:04:58
… Benzi’s sister died on the 9th of March 2002…during the second Intifada, when Palestinians called for an armed revolt against Israel, including suicide attacks… they mainly hit buses and bars… public places, where people meet… a monument was built for Limor Ben Shoham…
05:08:49
… 2:08 … in West Jerusalem the last hour of school will soon be over… quiet has returned to the cafés and restaurants after the lunch rush… but some guests are still asking for the menu
05:09:36
… the Shu’afat refugee camp is part of Jerusalem… nearly fifty years ago it was built as a provisional refugee camp… made up of single story houses, the quarter has turned into a wild sprawl… the wall separates it from the rest of the city… it is intended to protect Israel from attacks… Khaled Al Sheikh Ali was born in Shu’afat…
05:11:32
… beyond the safety installation is a valley and behind that, a Jewish settlement… when Mahmoud Al Salameh wants to see it, he has to climb onto the wall… he too, was born and raised in Shu’afat and he should be at school right now… but he had trouble with his teachers and gave up on school…
05:14:31
… 14:15 in Jerusalem… Moran Mizrahi has to pick up her daughter from school… she had a hard day at work… trouble at her bakery and an argument with the guests at her café…she has promised her daughter a late lunch…
05:15:14
… Rania Zughiyer lives in a suburb of Jerusalem with her family… she wants to look in on her father on her way to town…
05:15:40
… the YMCA is situated in West Jerusalem on King David Street… a building from the times of the British mandate… at the top of the tower, a Carillon was installed in 1933, a large chime with 35 bells… the heaviest weighs one and a half tons… the instrument is played every Sunday and on special occasions… … only very few musicians know how to play the Carillon…Professor Gaby Shefler is one of them…
05:17:02
… at Shu’afat camp, people remember Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israeli prisons… some were sentenced for terror attacks, some have never been indicted…
05:17:32
…they hold speeches and there are rallies in the streets for the 5,000 prisoners… in the Shu’afat Camp, PLO and Hamas both march together… the PLO is a secular organisation and rules over the West Bank, the Hamas is religious and rules over the Gaza Strip… the PLO has recognised Israel, Hamas wants to destroy it and built an Islamic State in the Holy Land…
05:18:33
… two of Rania Zughiyer’s brothers are in prison... one of them was convicted ten years ago for driving the perpetrators of an attack... when the second brother was arrested a few years ago they were not told why.. the brothers sometimes call their father... Rania’s daughter wants to study at the Bezalel, an Israeli Arts Academy in Jerusalem...
05:21:01
… at the end of the rally the prisoner’s families are honoured… some inmates are on hunger strike because they’re imprisoned without trial…
05:25:20
… in the next episode of 24h Jerusalem a man will return to childhood haunts …only a few kilometres away from his house, yet unreachable… photographer Jim Hollander is sent to a rally… and a coiffeur is expecting customers… there will be a wedding in the evening…
