Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Amal Al-Agroobi | 10 minutes

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Action on Armed Violence has released ‘Voice Notes from Palestine’, a powerful short film that features the testimonies of Palestinian students with disabilities from the Islamic University of Gaza, detailing their experiences of suffering, loss, resilience and hope during Israel’s year-long mass bombardment and siege of the Gaza Strip.

In 2023, the students participated in an online course led by Dr Iain Overton, Director of AOAV, in collaboration with Dr Nazmi Al-Masri and his staff at the University of Gaza. The course aimed to empower the students to use social media as a means of telling their stories.

Horrifically, one of the students who participated on the course, Aya Kafafi, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in July 2024, along with her father, sister, and several nieces and nephews.

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