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Global Eye - Season 2026 Episode 3 - Giving Birth In The Occupied West Bank
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00:00Hello and welcome to Global Eye from the BBC World Service.
00:23Over the next half an hour, we'll be bringing you powerful stories and insight from across the world.
00:28I'm Amir Nada, an international correspondent and this week I'm joining you from Jerusalem.
00:34Israelis and Palestinians are reeling from more than two years of war.
00:38It's touched every home. A peace plan for Gaza, brokered by President Trump, came into effect in October.
00:45All of Israel's surviving hostages have been released and thousands of Palestinians have been freed from Israeli detention.
00:51But now, as some families attempt to look forward, moving beyond the devastation,
00:56for many others here in the Holy Land, the conflict shows no signs of easing.
01:01Israel itself stands at the brink of an uncertain new chapter,
01:05but one that promises to have huge reverberations, not only here, but around the region and the world.
01:11Later, we'll bring you a BBCI film from Bethlehem, a few miles from here in the occupied West Bank,
01:17where many expectant Palestinian mothers face unsafe travel, limited medical access and constant fear,
01:23while bringing new life amidst the ongoing conflict.
01:26And we'll bring you the story of the Brazilian school beset by violence, crime and truancy in a high-risk community
01:38that defied the odds, undergoing an incredible transformation.
01:42I've spent most of my journalistic career covering the Middle East.
01:46It's a region rich in history and culture, yet also defined by deep fault lines and recurring crises.
01:54And few conflicts have dominated global headlines as much as the recent Israel-Gaza war.
02:00This conflict's origins can be traced back more than a century,
02:03but the current war started in October 2023, when Hamas gunmen attacked southern Israel,
02:08killing more than 1,100 people and taking 251 others hostage.
02:16More than 71,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel's campaign, according to the Hamas-run health ministry,
02:22around half of them women and children.
02:24Israel's last public estimate is that it has killed around 20,000 fighters.
02:29Most of Gaza's buildings have either been damaged or destroyed,
02:33while Israel has at times either restricted or blocked the flow of aid reaching Palestinians,
02:38pushing Gaza into starvation.
02:42I've been reporting from this side of the Gaza border since the first days of the war.
02:46I've seen the fear and division at its most extreme.
02:50Israel has blocked foreign media from freely entering Gaza.
02:54Instead, local Palestinian journalists, medical staff and international aid workers
02:58have told us about the reality on the ground.
03:00It's a war that's had momentous global reverberations, defining us and changing us in far-reaching ways.
03:07It's challenged the principles of everything from the ethics of weapons sales
03:12to the future of the Eurovision Song Contest.
03:15Israel sits on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea,
03:19with a population of 10 million, the majority Jewish living alongside Muslim, Christian and Druze communities.
03:25Freeing Israeli hostages from Gaza was at first a unifying cause for the country,
03:30called out each day from this square in Tel Aviv.
03:34Yet very quickly it became a fissure, a sharp divide in Israeli society,
03:38as backers of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's military campaign clashed with those calling for a hostage deal
03:44to be negotiated with Hamas much earlier.
03:46Critics of Netanyahu in Israel have accused him of responsibility for security failures on October 7th,
03:53and for enabling Hamas's build-up over many years.
03:56Claims he's disputed.
03:58His backers have said that his determination to pursue total victory has seen the weakening of Israel's opponents in the region,
04:06as war escalated across the Middle East.
04:09In some quarters, the war has turned Israel into a pariah state.
04:15A number of international bodies, including a United Nations Commission of Inquiry,
04:19have accused it of committing genocide in Gaza.
04:22Accusations the government has vehemently denied, saying it has only acted in self-defence.
04:28Trauma has gripped parts of Israeli society, including some of the tens of thousands of soldiers who have fought in the conflict.
04:34Across the country, people have dealt with the trauma of suffering hostages, of loved ones being sent to fight,
04:41of life put on hold and families separated.
04:44The current situation is difficult.
04:47It was a very prolonged traumatic experience.
04:50I don't think if you go out into the streets of Israel now and you ask people is the war over or not,
04:56a lot of people would say no.
04:57In certain populations, we've seen much higher levels of PTSD.
05:02But you then also have to remember different populations, different conditions, different traumatic events,
05:10and people with also different pre-existing traumas.
05:14Throughout its history, Israel has promoted itself as a safe place for Jewish people around the world.
05:20The Hamas attack shattered that sense of security and prompted a sharp reaction in Israeli society.
05:24It's been common to hear pundits on TV chat shows calling for the collective punishment of Palestinians,
05:31or their mass expulsion from Gaza.
05:33We simply need to do a fire that will be heard from there.
05:39To defeat Gaza or give it to them as a food.
05:43Throughout the war, I've been surprised by how little TV channels here in Israel show the reality on the ground.
05:48Scenes of starvation that have shocked the world have been rarely shown here.
05:52And when they have, they've often been dismissed as fake news.
05:55Some moderate voices, voices arguing for coexistence and the collective healing between Israelis and Palestinians,
06:02have told me they feel marginalised.
06:04The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Netanyahu.
06:09Yet here, in Israel, Paul suggests he continues to have a solid base of support.
06:14I spoke to the pollster and political consultant Mitchell Barak, who has worked for Israeli politicians on both the left and the right, including Benjamin Netanyahu.
06:24Prime Minister Netanyahu really thrives on a chaos.
06:27Some of that chaos he creates himself within his party, within his government, and some of it is external.
06:32I would not write that political obituary for Netanyahu. He is nowhere near finished.
06:39We have an election coming up, probably not later than October of this year, and I can't say Netanyahu will win.
06:47In fact, I don't think he'll win, but he certainly won't lose.
06:51And not losing means he'll stay Prime Minister somehow.
06:56Since the October Gaza ceasefire came into effect, over 400 Palestinians, including children,
07:01have been killed by the Israeli military, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry.
07:06Israel, which now controls over half of Gaza, has said it has opened fire in response to what it is called ceasefire violations.
07:14It has accused Hamas of killing three of its soldiers during that same period.
07:19Looking forward, huge and resolved questions remain.
07:23What does the future of Gaza look like? Will Hamas agree to disarm? A key stipulation of the plan.
07:28With Israel's leaders vowing they'll never allow Palestinians to have their own sovereign state, the future of diplomacy looks fraught.
07:39I've been here in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank numerous times while the war in Gaza was at its height, just a few miles from here.
07:45And I've seen the reality of how daily life here is impacted by Israel's ever-growing military occupation.
07:53Here at the Aida Youth Centre, this football pitch is the latest example of the reality of life under occupation.
08:00Seen as a lifeline to young people, in December the Israeli authorities said they would demolish it as it was built without permissions.
08:07A claim local Palestinians dispute. And as our next film from the BBC I-Team reveals, occupation leaves a mark on the most significant milestones of a person's life.
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08:46I love you very much.
09:04The meaning is that you're afraid to do a good job.
09:10You're afraid to do anything.
09:13They're leaving the wars with us, God!
09:17They were leaving강ina by our business,
09:22because it was one single place for all the countries have vậy that they don't offer.
09:26Well, weomenforcement, a very beautiful story,
09:32but it has worked in the world and the people for each thing,
09:36without a sort of gacterium, or motivo of skin,
09:39or like that, or anything.
09:42We are having a special you and a special child.
09:45They have all their own specials.
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10:26How are you?
10:27You're fine.
10:28You're fine.
10:29I mean, they say the first thing, they start from the beginning of the beginning of the year,
10:32you don't know when you bring the baby.
10:34No.
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10:36You're fine.
10:37You're fine.
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10:39I remember the first thing I remember,
10:41you're fine.
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11:40I was waiting for my father to one another,
11:55and my father to two,
11:57and my father was born in the first one,
12:01in the first two weeks.
12:03I was scared of having them something
12:07or that they were still not being taken
12:09When I was in the midst of my body, I had to hide the child.
12:16I was in the hospital, and the child died.
12:19I couldn't change my mind.
12:23I have to be strong.
12:26It is true that my Lord took one, but the other wanted me to be strong.
12:31I have to be strong.
12:33I am holding my hand.
12:36I have to be very proud of myself.
12:38Mathiel developed the complication that a lot of extreme premature babies develop.
12:44It's unfortunately a very bad scenario.
12:48But things could turn around with her.
13:08But we need to have faith. If there is faith in our Lord and the Holy Spirit, there is a whole thing in the world.
13:23We want to do it on the purpose of the people of Gaza and the people of Gaza and the people of Gaza.
13:29We want to put peace in all the world.
13:35People are afraid of the war. People are afraid that there is no plane.
13:45Who would start to get rid of it?
13:48People are not afraid of it. They are not afraid of it.
13:53They are not afraid of it.
13:55The meaning of the Christian in the country is not just Christian.
13:59They are Christian and Muslim.
14:05People are afraid of it.
14:07If my family's children are afraid of it, they may be afraid of it.
14:09We have a巡礼.
14:11They are afraid of it.
14:12The 검색 is not just them.
14:14They are not afraid of it.
14:15They are afraid of it.
14:16But, because of my taking a year from myそ zitten,
14:18they can't stand up with the bridge.
14:19I was afraid of it.
14:20I was afraid of it.
14:21I was afraid of it.
14:22Because I'm very young.
14:23And, from my age, I will stand up with the barrier,
14:25it is because I have a barrier against the barrier that is the barrier is the barrier of escolon.
14:30it's a big issue
14:33a big issue
14:35a big issue
14:37means you're not in the future
14:39but you're in a big issue
14:42how do you want to make something?
14:49a woman was a married girl
14:51it's a big issue
14:52it's a big issue
14:54because she also knows
14:56that the women are on the birth
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15:29There's one for the girls and one for the girls who don't care about it.
15:59It's been a year and a half a year, so it's been a year and a half a year.
16:06If you want a job, where are we going?
16:09It's possible that the daughter will go to Kudse,
16:12but the problem in the political and security situation is very difficult.
16:17But we're going to have a good job.
16:29I love Kudse.
16:34I really love Kudse.
16:36I'm very excited about the issue of Gaza.
16:39This year is not Kudse.
16:46We're going to sleep and we're going to listen to the news.
16:49We're not able to help.
16:52When we come to our hospital,
16:56we're going to have a good job.
16:59We'll have a good job.
17:00There's a good job.
17:01There's a good job?
17:02Yes, yes!
17:03Get out, get out, get out!
17:04But the people of Gaza,
17:05they're not a happy person.
17:08There's no hope.
17:09They took the hope from us.
17:11Come on, girls!
17:12Get out!
17:14Get out!
17:15Get out!
17:16Get out!
17:17Get out!
17:18Get out!
17:19Get out!
17:20I'm very excited.
17:21How are you?
17:23Good job, good job!
17:25Look at me, her little girl.
17:27Look at her baby...
17:29I see him.
17:30Look at me!
17:31Look at me.
17:32Look at the baby.
17:33Let's see, come on up.
17:34Come on!
17:35Is just as soon as long as I listen to the baby girl.
17:37Look at his baby girl.
17:38Look at you, he
17:43Let me go over it.
17:47Come on.
17:49Look at him!
17:51Look at me, look at me.
17:53I'll take my hand.
17:54Oh my God.
17:55Good job.
17:56Oh my God.
17:58Let's do one more.
18:04This is the day for the day of the year.
18:07This is a gift from the sky, something nice.
18:11It's not the same thing.
18:12If you return to the world and return to the day, I'll return to the day.
18:15A lot of people, the first time I decided to bring my children,
18:23they told me that I was born during the pandemic.
18:26From the circumstances.
18:28From the events.
18:30From the events.
18:32From the death of the day.
18:35I had a lot of fear from this side.
18:38It was a lot of fear.
18:40But I can see that there is hope.
18:45Because the hope comes from that I was born with her.
18:49What do you mean?
18:50I was born with my life.
18:52I can see that he is a very young child.
18:55Because there are a lot of people waiting for them to love.
19:00There is fear, but there is hope.
19:05I love you.
19:11We ended up taking you off the day.
19:14It happened the day for 85 days.
19:19It had been 35 years old.
19:23And for me, it is a real bad man, I will not be able to change.
19:26But all the way to the world.
19:28I was unable to take those days at night.
19:31I was able to take those days at night.
19:33If you're listening to the night, the doctor, the doctor, the doctor and the doctor.
19:37We are still in the future.
19:41This is a great feeling.
19:44I hope we will come back to the other side of our children.
19:47I hope.
19:55It's a great feeling.
19:59First thing is that peace and peace are important.
20:04We live in such a nice house with each other.
20:08I don't want to be able to meet my friends.
20:11I see her in the school, and I love the girls.
21:05Elsewhere on the World Service this week, BBC Persian has now received dozens of rare eyewitness accounts from inside Iran, despite the ongoing near-total internet blackout throughout the country, as recent protests have been violently crushed by government forces over the past week.
21:21The full story is on the BBC News website.
21:24And, after a year-long investigation, the BBC Afghan team published a report exposing the internal differences at the very top of the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
21:32Through audio obtained by our reporters and exclusive access to Taliban insiders.
21:38You can also find that story on the BBC News website.
21:42Now we're taking you to one of Brazil's toughest neighbourhoods, Cuba Town, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo.
21:48For years, one local public school, Parque dos Sonhos, the Park of Dreams, was known by a far darker nickname.
21:55Beset by crime and violence, half of its students requested to be transferred.
22:00But something extraordinary has happened.
22:02In the last year, it's won an international award and been recognised as one of the best in the world.
22:07So how did an institution, in one of the most troubled communities in Brazil, defy the odds and rewrite its own story?
22:15BBC Brazil's Ruchepina has been finding out.
22:18BBC Brazil's Ruchepina has been found.
22:48This public school once faced constant breakings, theft and violence.
22:58But today, it's been recognised as one of the best in the world.
23:04We're in Incubatão, on the coast of Sao Paulo, in southwest Brazil, to understand what the school Parque dos Sonhos,
23:10that translates to the Park of Dreams, did differently.
23:14It sits between Latin America's largest port, Santos, and the steep mountains of Serra do Mar.
23:22In the early 2010s, the city ranked among the most violent in the state because it was often used for drug routes.
23:31The school teaches children aged 6 to 14.
23:35Back then, the violence didn't come from the students, but from outsiders and local gangs who frequently broke into the building.
23:43The second day, as my director, my room was made of tall, the steel stone.
23:49The classes started, they broke the refrigerator.
23:53The blocks were to work broke.
23:55The blocks were to work broke.
23:56Parque dos Sonhos is in a neighborhood created to resettle families who have lived in the
24:02Serra do Mar, a mountain range near São Paulo prone to landslides and high-risk informal
24:08settlements.
24:09At first, there was almost nothing here, just a forest, a river, and a few houses.
24:15As a result, the school was subject to breakings and vandalism.
24:20Agis, a history teacher, was invited to become principal because of his experience dealing
24:27with challenging environments in school.
24:30That's when he first heard about Parque dos Sonhos.
24:33I went to the internet to research about the school, and the first news I saw from the school
24:38was that the communities of Bolsões 789, which is where the school is inserted, suffered
24:44insecurity due to the violence.
24:47And then the second report that I saw about the school was that they entered the school
24:50and had vandalized the school.
24:53And then there was a third report that said that at a junina party, the boys of the traffic
24:58had entered the school and were making a mess at the party.
25:02I said, my God, is that I'm going to this school?
25:04And then I knew that the school was known as Parque dos Pesadelos, or Parque do Terror,
25:09because of the name, Parque dos Sonhos, Parque dos Pesadelos, which is a place where no one
25:12wants to be, because they couldn't stand here.
25:15Back then, the school had only 116 students.
25:18Metade dos alunos tinham pedido transferências porque eles não queriam estudar aqui, por conta
25:23da violência, por conta das agressões.
25:27Even so, Regis set a big goal, to turn one of the most vulnerable schools into the best
25:34in the region within five years.
25:36The first step was fixing the basics, the walls, the floors, and the furniture.
25:41With very little public money, the school turned to local businesses for help.
25:47At the same time, we started a job of listening to the students, to have a more human view,
25:52to have a really look back to them.
25:56The full-time school introduced 23 projects, including sports, journalism, and theater.
26:02Badmint and Patinas Artistic.
26:04Imagine if a public school would have these two types.
26:07At the beginning, I thought it would only be a classroom, so I didn't like it a lot.
26:11But then, they grew up, the school had new projects.
26:15And today, it's very cool, because we're not only in the classroom, there are other places.
26:20The hallways also tell a story.
26:23Every classroom door features art of famous figures like Mandela, Malala, and the Brazilian
26:29educator Paulo Freire.
26:31The Park of Dreams won the world's best school prize in November, in the overcoming a
26:36diversity category.
26:37It was very emotional, we were crying.
26:42I was very happy, very happy.
26:44When we found out that we were in the top one, we had to cry, it was a lot of emotion.
26:49And the transformation that brought the award home also had an impact on student performance.
26:56The school's official score more than doubled.
27:00It rose from 2.2 to 4.6 on a state index that measures school performance.
27:08But for the teachers, the numbers are only part of the story.
27:12Our school evolved, but did not achieve the goal in the past.
27:17But for us, the important thing is how our students are today and how our students are today and how our students are tomorrow.
27:23We found students that nobody gave anything for them.
27:28What emociona is to see all this process, this process of transformation, understanding how the school can be this point of transformation,
27:38this point of support, this point of balance.
27:40We had four cases where the girls, in the tutorial, said that they were abused.
27:44If we were able to do that, to make a girl say, to express what's happening in her house,
27:52this is very important for us.
27:55Because the school has to be this moment, this thing of protection.
27:59Last year, Parque do Sonho served to more than 500 elementary school students.
28:05This year, it will also begin offering high school, a new chapter for a school once considered impossible to save.
28:12Imagine if a school in 2016 was closed because there were no students,
28:18and in 2026, we will start with 1,200 students.
28:21It's emotional.
28:23You say, what did I do and what can I do?
28:32Thanks for joining me in Jerusalem.
28:34Global Eye will be back next week.
28:36Goodbye.
28:42Bye-bye.
28:47Bye.
28:55Bye-bye.
29:04Bye-bye.
29:08Bye-bye.
29:10Bye-bye.
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