This footage was filmed and produced 29 February 2024.

A Palestinian team holds an event inside a school for displaced people in the city of Deir al-Balah. Event was held to entertain children in light of the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, such as a clown segment and drawing on children’s faces.

SOUNDBITE 1, children:

01:15-01:17
Go home, go home.

01:26-01:44
Please, I want this color. Draw me on my face.

SOUNDBITE 2, team member:

01:53-01:59
Start please, they will give me my clothes.

SOUNDBITE 3, Mohamed Abu Rabia, team official:

02:00-02:10
Today we are the team of "sharek-sha'bak" in Deir al-Balah, doing entertainment activities for children in "Khawla Bent-el" school. This school is now a center for displaced people who came from the north.

02:11-02:17
In these activities we have clowns, dolls, traditional games, and Dabka.

02:18-02:27
We are trying to help children have fun and to make them forget the war and the fear and stress.

02:27-02:31
We offer them snacks as much as possible.

02:31-02:52
Our message to the world: here in Gaza, there are children, and they deserve to live in peace. We demand the world to stand by them.