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A Two-State Solution? | Digital Series

It’s been called the war on Gaza but all of the occupied territories are at war, in one way or another. Hopes were once high that the West Bank might one day form part of a sovereign Palestinian state. But is a two-state solution even possible today? And where would you even start?

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The Killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab | Digital Series

Bird’s Eye View examines what happened to Hind Rajab, the 6-year-old girl in Gaza trapped in a car surrounded by her dead relatives. Through satellite imagery and in-depth analysis including phone exchanges, we shed new light on Hind’s terrifying ordeal. She survived, but only long enough to witness the unimaginable before she too was killed along with the medics sent to save her.

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I’m preparing for China’s war on Taiwan | Close Up | Elections

“I think China will invade Taiwan between 2025 and 2027,” says Wu Jheng Cong, a Taiwanese sofa-maker living in Taoyuan City. “These rations of food can last our entire family twenty days to a month.”

He has stocked up on food, taken up weapons training and has weekly gatherings with his civil defence group, where they develop their survival skills.

Local media in Taiwan reports that around half a million people have voluntarily enlisted in civil defence training. Wu is one of them. “When the war comes, things are going to get tough,” he tells us. His fear is that the Taiwanese military and reserve forces may not be large enough to withstand a military invasion by China, prompting him and his peers to organise and train for war. “You have to start years before it actually comes,” Wu says.

While many Taiwanese believe China’s rhetoric around ‘reunification’ remains a distant threat, tensions between Beijing and Taipei have escalated dramatically in recent years. Wu believes that fostering a close connection with his training companions will be what protects him, his wife and his three-year-old son in case of emergency. “Being in a group like this, I’m reminded of my purpose. When the war comes, there’s someone to fight for.”

Credits

Filmed by: Joseph Mangat and Wang Chun Hong

Produced by: Tierney Bonini and Antonia Perello

Field Producer: Allen Chen

Edited by: Joseph Mangat and Antonia Perello

Sound recording: Ken Wu

Sound Mixing: Linus Bergman

Colourist: Catherine Hallinan

Senior Editor: Donald Cameron

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Taiwan, China and the US explained | Start Here | Digital Series

China claims Taiwan as its own territory and the US is watching. So what’s the status of Taiwan? And why is it such a flashpoint between the world’s two biggest powers? Start Here with Sandra Gathmann explains.

Note: This is an updated version of an episode that was first published in November 2021.

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Why Palestinians in East Jerusalem are losing their homes | Start Here | Digital Series

The space for Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem is shrinking. It’s happening through a process of evictions and demolitions. Sandra Gathmann went to East Jerusalem for #AJStartHere to explain what’s happening and why.

This film was shot in August 2023, before the war on Gaza.

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Lebanon and the War on Journalists | Israel-Palestine conflict

More than 70 journalists have been killed since the Israel-Gaza war broke out on October 7. Among them, Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa, who was killed in an Israel attack in southern Gaza on December 15. Al Jazeera reporter Carmen Joukhadar was injured during an Israeli air strike in Lebanon on October 13. She tells Between Us about losing her colleague and her fight to protect members of the press.

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This is what 24 hours of our lives in Gaza look like | Close Up | Israel-Palestine conflict

We asked 10 people in Gaza to record moments of their day. The result is inspiring and heartbreaking.

Seventy days have passed since the Israeli military launched an all-out assault on Gaza following an attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7. In those 70 days, more than 18,800 Palestinians have been killed, most of them children and women.

Al Jazeera’s digital documentary series, Close Up, reached out to Palestinians in Gaza in November and asked them to record whatever they could over the course of a day on any devices that still worked – because who better to tell the stories of life in Gaza than the people themselves who are living there through the horror of siege and war?

This compilation of people’s moments provides a snapshot of just one of these 70 days of war when even the most mundane of tasks like showering, doing laundry and preparing meals has become impossibly hard, when fear is constant and palpable that at any moment death could strike from above as Israel relentlessly bombs the entire length of the besieged strip from morning to night.

The result is a story of resilience and courage.

Credits

Filmed by:

Motaz Azaiza

Hind Khoudary

Belal Khaled

Rahaf Shamaly

Jana Shamaly

Tasneem Ahel

Youmna ElSayed

Joury ElSayed

Masa Abu Aziza

Abdullah Almajaida

 

Directed by:

Tierney Bonini

Antonia Perello

 

Produced by:

Yara Eid

Ruwaida Amer

 

Edited by:

Antonia Perello

Catherine Hallinan

Ahmad Samara

 

Music composer:

Hussam Aliwat

 

Senior editor:

Donald Cameron

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