[van-announce] [ISM-Vancouver] This week: The Killing Zone, Film Premier

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Vancouver Premier: The Killing Zone
A documentary by Sandra Jordan and Rodrigo Vasquez
THURSDAY, MAY 20 7:30PM
Location: SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1900, 515 West Hastings, Vancouver
Presented by ISM Vancouver
Admission: $5

Do not miss this acclaimed British film that documents the 
extraordinary level of violence in the Gaza Strip. The attacks by the 
Israeli army continue unabated to this day -- in May 2004, dozens of 
Palestinian civilians have been killed, hundreds wounded and thousands 
made homeless in the Gaza Strip.

The Killing Zone shows that Palestinian civilians live under the threat 
of Israeli Defence Force attacks that do not discriminate between 
militants and children. Last year, three Westerners also came under 
Israeli army attack.  An American peace activist was crushed to death 
by an IDF bulldozer; a British peace protester was shot in the head by 
an IDF sniper and remains in a coma; and a British cameraman was shot 
dead by the IDF. Two of these killings occurred while the film crew was 
in the region.

Their film captures the aftermath of an Israeli missile attack that 
assassinates a leader of  Hamas. Children who happen to be playing in 
the street nearby are killed or have limbs blown off.

They film the aftermath of an attack in which Israeli troops fire 
modified tank shells that explode in mid air above densely populated 
civilian areas and spray thousands of razor sharp darts, or flechettes, 
in an arc some 300 metres long and 90 metres wide. The team encounters 
sniper fire from Israeli watchtowers, and endures tank shelling 
alongside a class of terrified school children.
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