"Powerful... distressing... This is no way for children to live, let alone die."
Telegraph

"An amazingly brave —albeit deeply disturbing — piece of work."
*****
Mail

"Uncompromising, balanced film.. unparalleled access on both sides, with the children the guides to their dystopia.
There was beauty to be found in the filmmaking – hazy sunsets and light-bathed streets made the destruction almost beautiful, until we were reminded this was not an episode of Homeland, but their lives now."
Independent

"Full of such piercing moments"
Radio Times

"Bleakly necessary documentary"
Guardian

"Intimate, insightful and thoroughly depressing"
Times

"Heartbreaking documentary"
Mail

Children in Gaza and across the border in Israel have lived through three major conflicts in six years. Last summer more than 500 children were killed in a 51 day war, all but one of them Palestinian. On the Israel side of the border children lived in constant fear of rocket attacks and gunmen raiding from underground tunnels.

This BAFTA-nominated film follows the lives of children on both sides of the conflict in the midst of the war and through the months that followed, revealing how children born so close are growing further apart with each war.

Nominated for a BAFTA in the Current Affairs category
Nominated for a Grierson Award in Best Documentary on a Contemporary Theme - International
Nominated in the Radio Times' Faith Award 2015

Filmed, Produced and Directed by James Jones

Reporter: Lyse Doucet

Local Producers: Hamada Abuqammar, Alon Farago

Editor: Graham Taylor

Composer: Alex Attwood

Executive Producer: Lucy Hetherington

Broadcast on BBC Two in July 2015