To Kill An Elephant
I saw a showing of this film on Monday night organised by members of Worcester’s Stop the War Coalition.
It’s an eye witness account from Spanish journalists embedded with an ambulance crew in the Gaza conflict in December 2008. We are generally numbed by the physical and emotional distance between our secure and safe world and a world so far away. This film is of real people being bombed and shot at and real people dying.
Are you prepared to see the film, to bare witness to the horrific things that happened and at the very least to try not to turn away?
This is not a sanitised or BBC version of accounts embedded with soldiers on either side – this is filmed embedded with an ambulance crew. There are many harrowing images: ambulance crew being shot at whilst recovering a dead body, children crying, children dying, white phosphorous, bombing of a hospital compound, burying the bodies of dead children, taking cover amongst the head stones in a cemetery as shooting takes place at a funeral and targeting and destruction of a UN compound storing supplies for the people. You really see it all.
Whatever your view on the Palestinian / Israeli conflict you can see in this film a raw insight into that other world not so far away from our own.