“We have to prove to the world that we are people,” says refugee Hossam Almadhoun Witnesses of Gaza (NPO2). In the documentary, presenter Nadia Moussaid talks about their experiences with fled Palestinians in Cairo and the Netherlands. Israel and his Western allies have so effectively dehumanized the Palestinians that they are not allowed to claim human rights. Moussaids goal is to give back the victims of the genocide in Gaza.
Moussaid speaks with a pediatrician who tells of the suffering in the Gazan hospitals. The worst thought that she could not give children any painless, worthy death. The presenter also speaks with a fled journalist whose husband is still working in Gaza, also as a journalist. UN reporter Francesca Albanese also speaks. Because she speaks the unpleasant truth about Gaza, the House of Representatives refuses to receive her this week.
The conversation makes the conversation with the young couple Noor Shareen and Nasham Musallam. The man had to get his family away from a bombed apartment. He recognized his brother by his hands and teeth. Strangely enough, a story about their pre -war wedding happiness comes in the loudest, one of the many daily things that have been swept away: “We drunk tea on the balcony – I don’t really like it but I drank it for him.”
Witnesses of Gaza is the most important TV program of the year. Dutch television has also failed to report on Gaza. To keep the Israeli perpetrators out of the spot, the massacre was preferably presented as an inescapable tragedy, as a natural disaster. This documentary puts that a bit straight.
Amsterdam
The fine history series The story of the Netherlands Has already treated the entire national history in the first season, so in the other seasons there is room to buzz more in a more detailed part of a sub -topic. In the third season that is Amsterdam.
Presenter Daan Schuurmans again walks while telling by silent, often passive costume scenes. Sometimes those scenes are suddenly very specific. This is how the series starts with a Spanish soldier who is in Brussels to wild pee when he is knocked down with a sock with stones. Moments later we see a sex worker with bare breasts that steals Benstezlust as a business spy and sea charts from a Portuguese sailor.
The makers apparently criticized that the first season was too little about women. In the first episode, Schuurmans prompted that medieval women in ‘Amestelledamme’ could acquire a reasonably independent position as a ‘buywear’. In the seventeenth century the city recorded many single women who could live more or less independently and freely here.
Elegant takes a few of those women from one sub -topic to another. Surgeon Trijn Jacobs takes us from the first East Indies to the first Dolhuis. The Danish maid Elsje Christiaans, who killed her Hospita with an ax in a rental quarrel, shows us an amusement park and a market to end up on the Galgenveld Volewijk, where she was immortalized by Rembrandt.
Amsterdam is portrayed as a free, open city of migrants. Last week we saw how the village originated when West Frisian survivors of the All Saints’ Flood of 1170 settled on the marshy banks of the Amstel. “The city originated from a storm,” “. In the second episode, Protestant and Jewish asylum seekers from the 16th century are rapidly getting a world power to the city. For example, the series outlines the blessings of a generous migration policy.
Correction 13 February: An earlier version said that this is the second season of ‘The story of Amsterdam’. That must be the third season.