Video Interview with MAP Head of Advocacy
18 February 2010
Following the launch of MAP-FILMS, MAP's Head of Advocacy, Andrea Becker, addressed some of the key issues around the situation in Gaza.
"MAP has been working in the Middle East for over 25 years and we have a very strong commitment to both addressing the issues but also raising the awareness about what are the issues we are responding too
MAP decided to create MAP-FILMS to show the wider audience what are the issues in the places in which we're working"
2) The role of Egypt in the blockade of Gaza
3) The history of the blockade
4) Issues around getting aid into Gaza
MAP FILMS
We are pleased to present our first short film, 'In the Wake of War: Gaza One Year On'
This film is based on interviews and filming we did in December in Gaza, in the run up to the anniversary of Operation Cast Lead. In the Wake of War is testimony-based, telling but some of the stories of survival, tragedy, and ongoing hardship in Gaza - with no effective action to end the blockade, no reconstruction, no accountability.
Our second short film is 'The Silent War: Israel's Blockade of Gaza'.
Israel's blockade of Gaza has been in place for almost three years. Building on existing closures and restrictions, the blockade means the delay or denial of a broad range of items - food, industrial, educational, medical - deemed "non-essential" for a population largely unable to be self-sufficient at the end of decades of occupation.
The blockade prevents access by sea, land and air, effectively closing off a population of 1.5 million Palestinians from the outside world. This short film examines what the blockade means for the people of Gaza, as they struggle to rebuild their lives over a year after Operation Cast Lead.
