Miral Page #4

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I'm going to kill you!

Is that too cold?

It's OK. It's OK.

Just wash up.

We must think about our daughter.

How do you want her to grow up?

Not like me.

This one?

This one is alive and happy,

this one is sad and tired.

No, no. We have some at home.

Mama?

- Hello, Jamal.

- Miss Hind.

Miral, how nice to see you.

What a beautiful dress. You want

to go play with the other girls?

Hadil, Leila, come take Miral.

It's OK, habibti.

Go and meet your new friends.

Make sure you look very pretty. Go.

After all these years

bringing the children here, I...

...I never imagined this.

Don't worry about her.

She'll be fine.

You have to take care of yourself.

I love her more than my own life.

But I don't want her

to end up like my sister.

- Or her mother.

- Go home. Try to sleep.

I'll take care of her.

Miral! Miral!

- Daddy.

- Miral.

Miral.

Miral.

Look at me.

Daddy!

Listen.

Miral, your father will be back Friday.

I want my daddy!

He will come back Friday.

You will go with him every weekend. OK?

I want to go home.

Look at it this way,

Dar El Tifl is your second home.

Most of the girls have only one.

You will have two.

And I promise you,

you will see your father every Friday.

- Papa! Papa!

- Oh!

Who is my beautiful girl?

You are.

Mm! Come, come. I have

a delicious surprise for you.

Come, come, come.

- Miral, you are late.

- Sorry.

- Hadil.

- Girls, be quiet.

Girls, girls, listen to me. Miral.

Listen to me.

This is a very crucial moment

for our country.

Some of you might have heard

that there is an uprising.

- What has been called the "intifada".

- It means "stand up straight".

We have been occupied

by the Israelis for many years.

Four Palestinian workers from Gaza

were run over by a military convoy.

And that was the last straw.

Our people can't take it anymore.

Schools have been closed.

Our duty, yours and mine,

is to help educate the children.

I am going to send you to the refugee

camps to reopen their classes.

You will be their teachers.

- I eat.

- I eat.

- I ate.

- I ate.

I will eat.

You have 10 minutes to clear this area!

This house will be destroyed.

You have 10 minutes to clear the area!

This house will be destroyed!

It's a threat to national security!

Get out!

Where is this family

going to sleep tonight?

Why isn't anybody

doing anything about it?

Well, we should.

We should do something about it.

Mama Hind.

- Sit down.

- Soldiers destroyed a house.

We live in paradise while our people

struggle every day against this sh*t.

"Sh*t"?

What kind of language is this?

Excuse me. But I can't just sit here

waiting for the next English class.

You can and you will.

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