Human Flow Page #4

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and squeaking]

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[police siren wails]

[man speaking in Arabic

over P.A.]

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[children chattering]

[clamoring]

[speaking in Arabic]

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[El-Ad] Gaza could be,

could be on Mars.

It's like as distant

as you could be.

An hour's drive from Tel Aviv...

those 1.8 million people, that,

you know, are our neighbors,

living in conditions, you know,

of a third world country

on the way to collapse, right?

Already people there,

for many hours in a day,

don't have electricity, right?

Uh, the quality of the water

is deteriorating.

We are talking about, like,

the most basic

of human needs, right?

This is, like,

almost as basic as it gets.

Is this fair? Is this equal?

Is this just?

Just as a human being,

identify that,

you know, what you are

looking at is injustice.

[boy chanting

in foreign language]

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[panting]

[farting]

[grunting]

[men yelling

in foreign language]

[Middle Eastern music playing]

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[indistinct chatter]

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[Ameratunga]

We are helping the returnees

to come back with the cash grant

and with some

supplementary assistance

for the more vulnerable people.

And in addition, we are helping

the government of Afghanistan

to be a refugee hosting country

for the first time.

So, Afghanistan is actually

hosting people

who have fled

for their safety also here.

So, I think the main challenge

will be the security situation,

because it is a country where

there is ongoing conflict.

And that affects the ability

of people to come back

and restart their lives.

[baby fussing]

[Ameratunga] People are

sometimes unable

to go back

to their place of, uh, origin,

because it may be

in war-torn area.

That means they have been

displaced across the border

and now they are coming back

and becoming internally

displaced as well.

So that's the sad part about it.

And so the people

who are returning today...

[stammering] are in

a very difficult situation.

They are probably going to have

a very difficult time

restarting their lives,

but at least they are now

citizens of their own country.

[cow mooing]

[Shuja] So a lot of these people

can't go back to their villages,

particularly the people

coming from Pakistan,

because they have been

displaced for 30 years,

in some cases 40 years.

They no longer have the

connections in their villages.

They can't go back

and claim the land

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