Published: 21 June 2024
NT Bureau
Doha
Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English’s Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary programme, is premiering ‘The Night Won’t End’, a ground-breaking, feature-length documentary, on June 21.
Through a powerful combination of investigative reporting, in-depth storytelling and stunning cinematography, the film investigates attacks on civilians by the Israeli military in Gaza and the United States’ role in the war.
Fault Lines worked with journalists in Gaza over the course of several months to follow three Palestinian families as they recount horrific experiences they endured and their struggle for survival amid the relentless Israeli assault. Each family’s experience tells a different story of the war and how their experiences and losses occurred alongside the Biden administration’s continued support for the Israeli offensive.
The Salem Family
The Night Won’t End investigates a series of airstrikes on December 11 that killed more than 100 people in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City. Fault Lines worked with Airwars, a nonprofit that investigates civilian harm, to examine the attack. Airwars found that nearly all of the victims were members of the Salem family, including an estimated 50 children.
After surviving the December 11 airstrike and relocating to another building to seek shelter, the family was subject to another massacre just over a week later, this time at the hands of Israeli ground troops.
Fault Lines documents how an Israeli unit entered the building where the family was seeking shelter, separated the men from the women and children, and summarily executed at least 11 men.
Through powerful interviews with family members, civil defence workers and medical responders, Fault Lines provides the most comprehensive account on video to date of the killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab and her relatives in Gaza City, including the events leading up to and following the attack.
The film also features an interview with US Senator Chris Van Hollen, who has called for allegations of civilian harm to be “investigated in an objective way”, as the Biden Administration continues to defer to Israeli investigations.
