Palestine Film



Children of Vengeance








Volunteers 






Suicide belt
TEASE
Subtitles?
Volunteer: 01.00.01-01.00.05
Fight them. And Allah will punish them 
through your hands. He will bring you victory 
over them.

Comm:
00:08
Palestinian suicide volunteers ready for their 
mission.
00:12
An explosives belt is at their feet.
 
Volunteer:00.15-00.20
This is the belt that the young men use for their 
martyr operations. 

Comm:
00:21
In the second of a two-part special revealing 
the tactics of each side of the ugly war in 
Israel, tonight: the hidden world of 
Palestinian militias.
OUT 00:30




TITLES


Scared woman 
and child. 
Subtitles
Woman:
'Where can I go?'  (00.48)
'Where can I go?'  (00.50)

Medley of tanks 
and battle shots
Comm:
01:06
Another Israeli incursion into a town in the 
West Bank.

01:11
On the one side state of the art tanks, 
soldiers protected inside the turrets.
01:17
On the other, gangs of men with light 
weapons.

02:10
The whole community is affected.

02:26
This is the Palestinians' version of David 
ranged against Goliath 



Bethlehem

Est Bethlehem.
 


Comm:
02:37 
Bethlehem, shortly before Christmas.

02:41
As daylight fades, the fighters of the second 
intifada come out onto the streets.



02:46
These men are all wanted by Israel. The 
Israeli security services and army have them 
in their sights.

02:52
They fight, knowing that any moment they 
could be picked up, or picked off.
OUT: 02:58

Following car 
shots

Car passing
Jihad:  Overlay.  03.00-03.25
Through martyr missions inside Israel, the 
military attacks in streets bordering Israel, and 
the armed attacks on settlements, we sent a 
clear message to the Israeli street, that the 
Israel street will never enjoy peace until the 
children of Palestine also enjoy peace. 

VIP Barbers
Subtitiles.  03.26-03.41
Jihad on Radio:
'Are you on the mobile?'    (03.26)
'I'm on the orange network not Jawwal'
 'Give me the number'     (03.33)
 '0543-99022'    (03.35-03.41)
'Any orders?'   (03.42)
'Not right now.'  (03.44)

 
Comm:
03:43
Jihad Ja'arie is a wanted man, in the 
company of other wanted men.

03:53
He's a leader of the Al-Aqsa brigades.

03:57
The different militia groups alert each other 
to the latest dangers.

04:01
Ja'arie keeps informed even when at the 
barbers.


Subtitiles
Jihad:
'I want a haircut and a shave, don't mess it up 
like last time.'  (04.05-04.09)

Jihad hair being 
cut
Jihad: In vision.  004.11-04.32
I always have my hair cut at this barbers.  I feel 
secure to the extent that even when I leave my 
weapon in here I'm not worried about it.  Also, 
this young man looks out for us whilst we are 
here.



Comm:
04:36
Nowhere is safe from attack.  Wherever 
Ja'arie goes, he is accompanied by his two 
bodyguards: Ghassan and Mohammed.  





Mohammad
Mohammad Overlay. (04.49-05.06)
For 53 years we have been engaged in a 
liberation struggle. For 53 years they've 
occupied us.  They kill our children, our 
women, the elderly and our youth, just because 
we are Palestinians. This is why I joined the 
brigades of Al-Aqsa martyrs, because of the 
oppression I've seen.  





Subtitles
Jihad:
'May God grant you happiness'. (05.15)

Leaving and 
meeting other 
fighters.  On 
street
Comm:
05:19
Al-Aqsa are outgunned, surrounded and 
watched.

05:24
Israeli intelligence usually know where these 
people are the whole time.

05:30
The Israelis have listening devices, aerial 
monitors – and no shortage of collaborators.

05:34
Ja'arie can never be sure who he can trust.

Street Corner
Jihad Overlay:  05.38-06.03
We cannot deny that the Israeli intelligence has 
managed to kill some leaders of the national 
and Islamic factions. 
They know where we are, where we go and 
where we come from.  We are always on the 
streets.  But in the final analysis it is God who 
takes a soul away not Sharon and his security 
forces.

On to a rally

Night of Eid.
Comm:
06:08  
It's the end of Ramadan. Marked by the 
festival of Eid. A rally is held to honour the 
families of martyrs.

Rally of young 
fighters
Comm:
06:17
Death is now the Palestinians' most potent 
weapon.

06:20
Forced constantly to live in its shadow, they 
have learnt to celebrate it.
OUT: 06:23  

Children in street
Subtitles. 3
Chant:
'Let's here some noise.  Allah is great. Allah is 
great.'  (06.35-06.4)

Up steps in house 
to window
Comm:
06:43
All Palestinians who've died in their war 
with Israel are honoured as martyrs – 
nationalist and Islamist, those who 
intended to die and those who didn't.

At window.
Jihad:  In vision.  06.58-07.23
Abu-Iyad was standing with his head outside 
the window whilst the Israelis were randomly 
shooting towards this camp.  That's how he 
was martyred on this specific spot.  It was a 
random bullet fired by the Israeli army.






Comm:
07:25
At night al-Aqsa go on patrol. They conduct 
surveillance, reconnaissance. It's basic, but 
it improves effectiveness. Ja'arie is training 
his bodyguard, Mohammad.

Training
Mohammad: Overlay.  07.39-08.15.
The training is daily; usually at night time in 
the mountains, in the caves, and also in the 
streets of the refugee camps.  We are 
distinguished by our street fighting abilities. 
We've gone through a lot of military courses 
on how to use weapons, how to shoot, how to 
snipe, how to attack, how to retreat and how to 
cover an advancing group. Until now our daily 
training has been conducted by Ja'arie and 
other brothers.


Comm:
08:18
Getting weapons is harder now that the 
Israelis encircle every Palestinian town.

08:26
But there is a way.

08:29
We're taken deep inside Jenin refugee camp 
to two Al-Aqsa fighters. They reveal to us 
the unexpected source of their arms.




Jenin masked 
fighters.
Masked Fighter.   08.40-09.21
Yes the Israeli soldiers themselves, Jewish 
people, Bedouins and Druze are selling us 
arms. We do not deal directly with the Israeli 
officer or soldier.  I cannot just call a soldier 
and ask him to bring me an M16. Why does it 
reach five thousand pounds? It goes from one 
man to another. Firstly, the soldier takes it. He 
will want to sell it. Who does he want to sell it 
to? He wouldn't sell it to me, as we would be 
court-martialled. He sells it to one of the drug 
dealers who is close to him.  The drug dealer 
then sells it on to another man.  It might be an 
Israeli Arab.  So by the time it reaches us it will 
reach a much higher price. But we do not have 
direct contacts with the Israeli army itself.


Man on Right.  09.21-09.29
It goes from one hand to another, from one to 
another until it reaches two, three or four 
thousand pounds.


Comm:
09:30 
Guns supplied by the enemy. It's risky. 
Booby-trapping weapons is an established 
ploy of Israeli intelligence.
OUT: 09:39





Booby-traps 
problem.  


Masked Fighter.
Man On Right.  09.40-10.11
We call this the capsule, which hits the needle 
and ignites the spark inside.  The Israelis 
started to put two capsules inside the bullet.  
One type was a capsule made of steel.  Which 
meant that when the needle in the gun hit it, the 
bullet exploded.  Of course, this kind of thing 
has happened to us many times.  Its destroyed a 
lot of our guns.  So now what we do it to check 
for booby-traps.  We have to check bullet by 
bullet. 

Fighter Camera Left. 10.11 
I don't put a single bullet in the M16 until it is 
checked.

Fighter Camera Right.  10.18
They have their booby traps, and we have our 
ways to check for them.

Fighter Camera Left.  10.20. 
We have our methods, but I'm afraid we can't 
tell you about them.

Apartment block

Zoom in to room 



Comm: 
10:33
Ja'aire and his men have several hideouts – 
sometimes in large apartment blocks like 
these.

10:41
Families live all around them, making it 
harder for the Israelis to strike without 
inflicting other casualties.

10:48
But nowhere is safe for long. 

10:52
They stay a month or so and move on.  
 






Jihad sleeping.

Watching TV 
and the news.



Comm:
10:55
The fighters operate at night. They get up 
late. They have no work. There are few jobs 
to go to. The second intifada has destroyed 
the economy.

They use the day monitoring satellite TV. 
Stations like Al-Jazeera or Hezbollah 
provide their only link to the outside world.

OUT: 11:04



Fighter: Subtitles.  11.07-
'After a year and a month we're lucky to have 
the shirts on our back.'
Jihad:  
'Compared to others we are living like kings.'

Top Shot
Comm:
11:30
To be in a car is to dice with death. The 
fighters have to change their cars every few 
weeks.




Cars-following 
different cars.
Comm:
11:39
Once identified, they are an easy target from 
the air.

11:44
So they try to stay ahead of the game.

11:49
The cars they get are bought from the same 
Mafia groups that supply them weapons.  



Martyr's 
Cemetery


Comm:
11:58
Sometimes the fighters have to venture 
outdoors in daylight.

12:04
On the day of Eid, they visit the graves of 
martyrs on the outskirts of the town.  


Comm:
12:10
But the risks are great. They're within easy 
firing distance of Israeli positions just a few 
hundred yards away.

Walk up



Jihad:  In vision.  12.23-12.48
We are now at the cemetery of martyrs.  The 
cemetery of the martyr Husayn Abayat.  He 
was the first martyr to be killed by the Israeli 
forces in the province of Bethlehem.  He was 
the leader of the Brigades of the Al-Aqsa 
martyrs in the south, in charge of the military 
wing of Fatah, the movement of national 
liberation.

Hussein's 
destroyed car.
Jihad:  In vision.  12.59-13.28
This is the car of the martyr Husayn Abayat.  
He was assassinated by the hands of the Israeli 
army.  They fired rockets from a helicopter at 
his car.  It was hit by more than five rockets.  
His assassination took place whilst he was one 
of the main leaders of the brigades of the Al-
Aqsa in the West Bank.

Atef close-up
Comm:
13:34
The mantle passed to Hussayn's brother, 
Atef Abayat.

13:38
The ties of blood. That's how it works.





Atef's car







Comm:
13:44
This was Atef's car. He was killed a year 
later, blown up by a booby-trap bomb – a 
classic operation by Israeli intelligence. 

13:55
The car had been bought unwittingly from 
an Israeli agent. The Israelis waited until 
Atef was inside. Then they detonated the 
bomb.





Over shots of the 
bombed out car.



Jihad: Overlay. 14.07-14.30
We cannot hide the fact that buying the Jeep 
was a big and tragic mistake.  It was a trap for 
our brother Atef. 
We do not excuse that.  We admit our 
colleagues and our brothers made a mistake 
when they bought this car.




Jihad at morgue
Comm:
14:33
After the attack, Ja'aire and his men went to 
the morgue, demanding to pay their last 
respects to Artef and the others who died.


Subtitles.  
Jihad.
'Let us see the bodies'  (14.39-14-43)


Jihad: Overlay.  14.48-15.06
We believe in the decree of Allah, Glorious in 
His Majesty.  Atef managed to protect himself 
for a long time.  But in the end, it was the will 
of Allah, that there was no more time for him to 
live this life.

Funeral
Comm:
15:11
Assassinations eliminate key people, and 
they force those that remain to concentrate 
on the basic task of just staying alive.


15:22
But the Israelis are simply buying time. 

15:34
The militias quickly regroup. 

15:40
The Al-Aqsa leadership stays within the 
family. It's the turn of Ibrahim Abayat, seen 
here at Atef's funeral.



Hide-out

Ibrahim and
Comm:
15:54
Ibrahim is acknowledged as the leader.

15:58
But he has to be closely guided by the more 
experienced street fighters.

Ibrahim.



Patrol
Ibrahim:  In vision.  16.07-16.29
We work for the protection of the city, and on 
all issues pertaining to the Palestinian people. 
We patrol the area. We patrol from Beit Sahour 
to Beit Jala and all the military points of the 
Israelis.

Gilo shooting 
pics Oct 2001
Comm:
16:33
Gilo, a Jewish settlement across the valley, is 
regularly attacked by Palestinians in 
Bethlehem.

16:41
The Israeli response is to assassinate leaders 
such as the Abayat brothers.

16:47
The cycle of violence.

16:50
Those deaths are, in turn, avenged by 
further attacks on Gilo. 


16:57
The aim: to make Israelis experience the 
fear of not knowing where the next bullet 
will come from.

17:10
Ja'aire and his men fire at random.  




Tanks come 
rolling in. Night.
Night shots of 
explosions and 
traces fire.  
Comm:
17:19
Again the Israelis respond. The tanks 
surrounding Bethlehem move in. 

17:28
Firefights break out around the town.




Tanks rolling in
Day
Comm:  
17:42
The battle rages for three days.  




Ibrahim
Tanks and 
Helicopters
Ibrahim:  Overlay.  17.45-18.05
Realistically, we have no effective means of 
combating their superior military capabilities.  
We don't have an adequate response to the 
range of their weapons, planes, and tanks.   All 
we have to fight them with is small arms.  But 
in doing so we show the world that we are 
resisting.




Tanks
Comm:  
18:12
The tanks take control of the main roads.

18:18
In conventional warfare like this, the 
Palestinians are easily outgunned.

18:29
The best Ja'aire and his friends can do is to 
slow down the movement of the tanks.

Jihad sniping

Infantry pinned
Jihad: Overlay.  18.38-18.57.
The Israeli army has acknowledged that in 
Bethlehem we have engaged them in intense 
fighting.  They admit to the effectiveness of our 
targeted shooting and our snipers.


Comm:
19:06
Homemade pipe bombs are part of the 
Palestinian armoury. The fighters try to 
target the tanks, but damage is minimal. 
Still, they inhibit Israeli infantry support.
OUT: 19:18

Back of APC
Ibrahim:  19.20-19.48
The nature of Israeli soldiers is that they are 
cowards.   They wont fight you without 
superior equipment and protection.  They have 
bullet proof vests, helmets, weapons and a 
range of specialist equipment.  They even have 
helicopters or apaches to monitor them from 
the air.


Comm:
19:52
The tanks pull out. Locals say 23 
Palestinians died in the fighting.

Ibrahim 
Ibrahim in vision.  20.00-20.21	   
We've have learned how to stand up to them, 
and how to hurt them.  This type of resistance 
may create fear in one soldier but it doesn't 
lead to a resolution of the conflict.
If the combat is not fought in modern military 
terms, plane meets plane, tank meets tank, then 
the conflict will not be resolved.

Est the warrens.
Mood shots of 
alleys at night.  
Car moves along.




Sky shots 
Comm:
20:26
Still, they're developing whatever weapons 
they can. 

20:33
In Jenin, we join a group of Al-Aqsa 
fighters.


20:41
As we drive, they check the skies for 
helicopters.  


View from inside 
car.
Comm:
20:50
We continue in the car down the rutted 
streets of the refugee camp.

Walk down Back 
alleys-dark

Comm:
20:57
For the last part of the journey we are 
hooded. 

21:02
We are led by the hand, down back alleys, 
down a flight of stairs, to the most secret 
location of all.

Into Weapons 
Factory 

Raw materials

Comm:
21:10
This is a weapons making factory.

21:26
The Hebrew letters make it clear where 
the raw materials have come from. 

The engineer.
Comm:
21:32
The man we are about to meet is the most 
important link in the chain.

21:38
If the Israelis knew where he was they 
would assassinate him – without question. 
To many Palestinians, he is a legend.

21:47
This is an engineer – an engineer of death. 
OUT: 21:51


Engineer's lesson
Engineer:  In vision.  21.52-22.54  
To start with, let's see the raw materials: this 
is gunpowder. We call it Kuhul, and we use it 
inside the bombs.  It is made up of basic 
materials including charcoal, sulphur, and 
agricultural fertilisers.  These are simple 
components but the effect is quite good.  
There is also this substance.  We call Um al-
Abd.  It's very sensitive and highly 
explosive.  We make it from chemicals, like 
acetone, hydrochloric acid and hydrogen 
pyroxide.


Comm:
22:54
The engineer's hands reveal that his body 
is burnt from head to toe. The Israelis 
have already tried to kill him once with a 
rocket.
OUT: 23:01 




Tanks in streets
Engineer:  In Vision/Overlay. 23.02-23.36
We have here a specialised mine.  From here 
to here, it is filled with gunpowder, and this 
from here to here is filled with the substance 
Um al-Abd. We may also put a mortar shell 
in the front.  What distinguishes it is that 
when it explodes, it generates an intense heat 
which reaches 4000 degrees. This 
temperature is high enough to melt a tank.   
Also, the mortar helps destroy the tank 
because it is filled with TNT, pure TNT.

Hebron
Police car
On radio
Subtitles.  Radio Chat. 
Jobeli.  (24.11)
Roger.  
State where you are.  (24.16)
Close to Dura – where are you? (24.18.)
I'm on the cemetery road, the new asphalt 
road.  
I'm meeting you now. Go in front of me. 
(24.27)

Car tracking


Police gathering
Comm:
24:29
Palestinian police setting out on a raid in 
Hebron.
 
24:35
The Palestinian Authority tries to exert 
control through its security services. But 
the dilemmas are acute.

24:44
The Israelis order them to make arrests, 
but the people they arrest are fighting a 
common enemy.

24:50
Often pursuers and pursued are members 
of the same family. 

Intelligence raid 
against Hamas
Comm:
24:58
Tonight officers of Palestinian security are 
closing a newspaper belonging to Hamas.

Closure


Subtitles.
'It's OK for you to close that one and that 
one. But this is my house.' (25.09)

'This is the office of the newspaper. There is 
no other office.'  (25.13-25.23) 

Spraying paint
Comm:
25:25
The newspaper office is shut. The 
operation is open to the cameras – to help 
give the impression to the outside world of 
a crackdown.
OUT: 25:33

Mohammad in 
car
Comm:
25:45
Mohammad Browesch is another wanted 
man, an Islamic Jihad leader in Hebron.  

25:51
He's a negotiator, mostly with the 
Palestinian Authority, over the fate of 
prisoners.

Mohammad goes 
to Intelligence 
Service.  In car 
sequence.
Mohammad,  InVision.  25.59-
What I will do is try to ask for their release.
Subtitles.
(Phone)
Hello, yes.  (26.10)
Salaam.
Yes, Habibi.
Greetings.
I'd be very thankful.  (26.22)
One second, hold on.  
Give me the ID number. (26.26)
Hold on a second.     (26.31)
93790214        (26.41)
Thankyou very much, God be with you.  
(26.56)
In Vision. 27.04- 
This is the ID of a lawyer who's visiting 
someone in an Israeli prison.


Mohammad in vision: 27.49-28.04
I monitor the people in prison firstly the 
people in PNA prisons and also in the prisons 
of Israel through their families and through 
the lawyers in charge of their cases.

At the gate
Subtitles
Mohammad and prison guard:
'We're here to see Nizam'  (27.35)
'Why?'
'He knows. Are you going to talk to him or 
let us in?'


Out of car into 
building.
Mohammad Overlay:  27.49-28.04
Only yesterday two brothers were arrested 
from the University of Hebron with the 
allegation that they belong to al-Jihad or 
Hamas, and then they were placed in the 
Palestinian jails.

Mohammad 
enters 
intelligence 
service HQ.
Subtitles. 
Salam (Peace be upon you.) How are you 
guys? We're here to see the director.  (28.07)
'You're here to see Nizam?  (28.11)


Comm: 28:11 
We're stopped from filming. They don't 
want us to see the Head of Palestinian 
Intelligence negotiating with a man who's 
actually on the wanted list. 
OUT: 28:19

Apaches
Comm:
28:23
Being on the Palestinian wanted list 
doesn't create too much fear.

28:29
Being on the Israeli list is altogether 
different. 

28:33
December the tenth. Two Apaches circle 
over Hebron. Their target: Mohammad 
Abu-Sider – who the Israelis say has 
organised suicide attacks.

Rockets
Comm:
28:48
One of the rockets is caught on camera. It 
passes by in a sixth of a second.  

Explosion and 
chaos scenes


Hole in ground 
Three wrecked 
cars.
Comm:
29:00
The rockets hit their target. But there was 
another man and two children inside the 
car.

Carrying baby 
shot
Comm:
29:16
Botched Israeli missions transform fear 
into rage, giving the militias a chance to 
recruit new members.

29:33
Three-year-old, Burhan Haymouni, 
becomes one of the youngest Palestinian 
martyrs.

29:38
The Israelis' intended target is badly 
injured, but survives. He is now in hiding 
in Hebron.


Mohammad 
walks into 
hospital

Comm:
30:11
Offering solidarity to victims is an 
important part of the militias' work.

30:20
Mohammad Browesch is visiting the father 
of the martyred child. The man is still in 
hospital, recovering from his injuries. 

Mohammad
Mohammad: In vision.  30.29-30.38
Peace be with you, how are you?  God 
willing you will be fine now.  I hope you are 
in a good health, God bless you.  


Father In Vision:  30.43-30.50
I wanted to go down town to buy some 
sweets.


Mother in Vision:  30.50-31.06
My child insisted on going out with him, 
with his father.  He held on to Mohammad's 
hands, he held them very tightly.  He didn't 
want him to leave.  So he and his father 
together.  Five minutes after they left they 
were hit.  


Father:  31.10-31.21
We got into the car.....drove two or three 
metres. The first rocket struck.....then the 
second.

Diab Shweiki
Comm:
31:23
There are many high-profile visitors.

31:28
This one is Diab Showeiki, a senior figure 
in Islamic Jihad.

31:36
He's accompanied by his bodyguard, 
because he's on Ariel Sharon's list of 33 
most wanted men.   






Diab Shweiki
Diab Showeike:  31.42-32.15
Every Palestinian is targeted and every 
Palestinian is wanted.  Sharon lists don't 
scare us and we are ready for anything, God 
willing.
As you see children and old people are 
paying the price. This old man, over 60, he 
never dream of hurting a Jew, but now he is 
added to the list.  As for me,  personally I'm 
honoured to be on Sharon's list.
Almost every night, the Israleis go to my 
house, turning it upside down, looking for 
me. They've also arrested my brothers on 
many times.  They are putting pressure on my 
family in order to try and force me to give 
myself up.

Diab and crew 
leave hospital
Comm:
32:22
Diab's minders stop him from talking to 
us. A wanted man never stays long in one 
location. He's accused of masterminding 
suicide missions against Israel.

Drive away in 
taxi
Comm:
32:39
A taxi is waiting.

32:44
They disappear into the city. The Jihad 
members we were with never used their 
own cars. Using taxis keeps Israeli 
helicopter pilots guessing. 




Jenin

Jenin
Dusk view of 
Jenin.

Comm:
32:59
Jenin: just a few miles from the nearest 
Israeli town. Secular groups like Al Aqsa, 
and Islamic groups like Jihad, now work 
closely together.


Comm:
33:12
In the explosives lab, the engineer is 
working for both.  


Engineer In Vision.  33.17-33.35 	
This is the explosives belt the young men use 
when they carry out their martyr operations. 
It contains the substance 'Um al'Abd' which 
is very sensitive and highly explosive.  An 
explosion is triggered with an electrical 
switch.

Refugee alleys
Comm:
33:40
We now want to see the man who gives the 
orders, the head of Islamic Jihad.

33:45
He's been arrested by the Palestinian 
Authority. But we can still get to him.

33:51
First, we must meet a close personal friend 
of his, a leader of Al-Aqsa.

Zoom in to 
lighted window 
at sunset.
Jamal Hwaid: Overlay.  33.56-34.14
This is a very patriotic environment.  A lot of 
young men have been martyred here.  There 
are twenty two martyrs in all.  Jenin camp is 
the greatest source of martyrs for Palestine.  
It's the capitol of martyrs.  Which is why 
Sharon calls Jenin the cockroaches nest.  We 
call it the nest of angels. 

Jamal and his 
fighters.  
Comm:
34:16
Friends, but from different organisations. 
Rivals too.

34:20
The factions have an extraordinary league 
table of suicide missions and casualties.
OUT: 34:25


Jamal In Vision.  34.26-34.51
The hounarable rivaly between the different 
factions has resulted in an increase in the 
number of martyrs from each organisation.  If 
I can compare this with football teams in 
Britain, like Manchester Utd, Liverpool and 
Leeds Utd.  When one team gets stronger, 
this drives the other teams to become 
stronger.  The players have to increase their 
effort and improve their skills. This is the 
same as what's happened in Jenin.  It's led to 
the martyrdom missions becoming more 
diverse and successful.

Throught he 
streets to the 
'jail'
Comm:
34:53
Jamal agrees to take us to Ali Safuri, the 
head of Islamic Jihad.

35:01
This is a prison in a secret location run by 
the Palestinian Authority.
But the guards have a dual function.
They're as anxious to protect their 
prisoner from Israeli assassination as they 
are to restrict his activities.

35:18
They check even their own for weapons. 

35:23
Collaborators are an important part of the 
Israeli armoury.

Jamal meeting 
Ali-Safuri
Ali-Safuri: In vision. 35.46-36.15
Don't make me laugh. People are deceived 
by the hype surrounding Israeli Intelligence.
There is no such thing as Israeli security.   
Israeli security is fragile, and the proof of this 
is that while Jenin is under siege individuals 
in Jenin are able to carry out martyrdom 
operations inside Israel.
And you tell me Israeli military intelligence 
is strong.

Graves
Ali-Safuri. Overlay. 36.21-36.41
Suicide missions are not our goal. They are a 
means of deterrence. 
The human being who dedicates his soul to 
Allah and his people, strikes at the heart of 
the Zionist enemy  by turning his body into a 
bomb.

Close up in 
cemetery 
Comm: 
36:43
The martyrs' cemetery in Jenin.

36:46
The graves of two young gunmen, Mustafa 
abu Sereh and his friend, Abed abu Nasr. 

36:58
A new grave awaits a new martyr.

Last statement
Subtitles. 
Abed:
'In the name of Allah, most beneficent, most 
merciful. Fight them. And Allah will chastise 
them through your hands. He will bring you 
victory over them.'  (37.39-37.59)

Last statement 
video
Comm:
37:15
The two friends recorded a final statement 
on the eve of their mission. This is a 
cocktail cell, volunteers from different 
groups on a joint operation. 

37:25
Abed, on the right, is from Al-Aqsa. 
Mustafa, from Islamic Jihad.

40 day wake
Comm:
37:33
It's the forty-day wake for Mustafa.  

Mother: Amal 
abu Sereh

Father: Faisal 
abu Sereh


Mother:  37.39-37.59   
I was watching TV. They said the person 
who carried out the attack in Afula was 
Faisal Mustafa Abu Sereh, it's his father's 
name.  I was shocked.  Then I searched the 
house.   Maybe he was still at home, still in 
his bed.  But when I saw he wasn't there, I 
knew, and I said it was Mustafa for sure.

Afula attack
Comm:
38:00 
Mustafa and Abed had sneaked out of 
Jenin through the fields. They drove a 
stolen jeep the few miles into Afula. They 
opened fire with semi automatic guns, 
killing two Israelis and injuring fourteen 
before being shot dead. 

38:21
Mustafa told nobody in his family of his 
plans. That's part of the training.


Attack

Mustafa with 
gun-from last 
statement video
Mother: Overlay. 38.29-38.47
He went and bought some corn on the cob 
and bought it back to me after prayer.  He 
gave it to me and said: 'Take it mother.' It 
was the first time he called me mother. He 
always called me mom.  So I said, 'That's a 
new word.' He said: 'Yes, I want you to be 
pleased with me.  I always want you to say 
'May Allah be pleased with him.'

Attack
Mother: Overlay. 39.18-39.34
I would have prevented him going.  I 
wouldn't have let him go.  If someone had 
told me, I would have chased after him and 
stopped him, and then surrendered him to the 
Israelis.  I would have saved him from death.

Attack-Israeli 
distress
Mother: Overlay. 40.41-40.48
Believe me, before the death of my son, 
before this current intifada, when I heared of 
Israelis killed by us, I felt both happy and 
sad.  Just as I am a mother, they are also 
mothers.  May Allah help them too.  Just as I 
raised my child, they also raised theirs.

Through the 
night.
Comm:
39:36
For all the grieving of the mothers, there 
are plenty of new volunteers waiting to 
follow Mustafa.

39:56
We are taken to meet a living martyr, 
someone who is ready for his suicide 
mission.

40:09
He has completed his training and  
preparations for his own death. 

40:26
By the time we meet him he is fired up and 
ready to kill.

Going up 
staircase
Living Martyr: In Vision. 40.41-40.48
We will resist them by any means, here, or 
wherever they are, or in the furthest places, 
anytime we are able to reach them we will 
reach them, Allah willing.


Living Martyr: Overlay. 40.51-40.57
We have sacrificed our lives for the sake of 
Allah, and because of this we have taken this 
path.

Stairwell
Living Martyr: In vision. 40.58-41.10
The Koran says 'And fight them where you 
find them and expel them from where they 
expelled you.' We are just carrying out what 
the Koran instructs us to do.  We fight them 
when they fight us and we expel them as they 
have expelled us.

Suicide attacks
Comm:
41:12
They're taking the battle deep inside 
Israeli communities.


41:16
It is a different war to the targeted one the 
Israelis want to fight. To the living martyr, 
there is now no difference between the 
Israel soldier and civilian.


Living Martyr: 41.26-41.44
Islamic Jihad is the faction keenest to only 
target soldiers.  But our position is that all 
those who live in on a land which is not 
theirs are aggressors and tyrants, even the 
women and elderly, they are transgressors 
because the land is not theirs.  They came to 
us.

Flash up pictures 
of suicide 
bombings
Living Martyr:  41.46-41.53
We hope for it, martyrdom. I hope I get 
martyred after this meeting. 

Mix of suicide 
missions


Afula
Ali-Safuri:  41.59-42.21
It achieves for us, the Palestinian people the 
balance of terror. The balance of terror is 
important, and lets be honest when my 
countryman sees that Apache circling in the 
sky he becomes scared.  But also for them 
when an operation takes place in Afula, the 
man in Tel Aviv becomes too scared to even 
sleep at his home.  Such is the balance of 
terror.

Cemetery


Comm:
42:23
The balance of terror, the ultimate logic of 
the Palestinians' war with Israel. 

42:30
Surrounded and outgunned, the prospect 
of death is ever present.

42:36
The one tactic that remains is the power to 
determine the time of their own death and 
of those they take with them.

42:48
There is always a grave waiting.




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