Gaza Destruction, Rebuilding: Send Us Your Videos

In partnership with Ground Report and WorldFocus, our Talk to US initiative asks web users around the world to share perspectives on international news by uploading a video response to a weekly topic.

The international community recently pledged billions of dollars in aid for Gaza and the Palestinian Authority.

Are you in Gaza or the West Bank? Show us your homes and neighborhood life. Take out your cell phone or camera and walk us through your neighborhood. Show us the destruction, and rebuilding. Tell us your side of the story.

And if you're in another country, what's your opinion of what should be done to aid the humanitarian crisis in Gaza?

We're looking for submitted videos from around the world. The best ones will be featured on the Worldfocus broadcast or the Huffington Post.

This is your chance to have a conversation with Americans about the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Go to the Talk to US YouTube channel to upload your video. See it here:

Deadline: March 13

Comments: If you leave a comment below, please tell us what country you are from. The most interesting and informative comments might be used on a WorldFocus report.

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Comments

[sarale23]

Send you home videos of rebuilding the smuggling tunnels - the Israeli military will gladly watch them.

[NCRDIBULL]

how about photos of the 10,000 rockets dropping on Israel?

[maceov]

AMEN!

[xriv]

People use those rockets for fireworks...,nothing to be scared off.

[nochaos]

No home photos yet?? we're waiting!

[nochaos]

What?? No photo requests of Hamas' destruction of Israeli homes and schools??? No surprise on THIS site!!

[Fathoms]

There are two things my WASP butt knows for a fact: 1) Attempting to compare Hamas' level of destruction with Israel's is pathetically disproportionate. 2) Israel started this mess. Oh wait! There's one more thing I know for a fact. There will never be peace or justice in the Middle-East until Jerusalem is declared an Open, International City. Oops, more facts just came to mind . . . Israel will have to dismantle the settlements, restore water equality and tear down that damned wall before there will be peace in the Middle-East. Shucks, I haven't even gotten to, "Right of Return!"

[fbr79]

I'm sure Jews and Muslims are very relieved to know that you, who refers yourself as a wasp, knew the answers to their problems all along and is now ready to share your wisdom with them. Those silly foreigners, why wont they just listen to White Christian America? You always have the answers for everything right there at the tip of your fingers. Their problems are so simple, especially when one is sitting thousands of miles away and the proposed solutions will have no direct effect on their lives. I think all White Christian people should have a say on what goes on in the ME.

/sarcasm

[chaos4700]

Hey, if you don't like this site, you're free to leave. The very tight-framed photos focusing on the couple of instances of rockets hitting buildings and putting a couple meters wide hole have been all over the news wires. Actually, I would welcome a full video sweep of what Sderot is like, so we can compare how Israelis are pampered to what Gazans have to live through. Be careful what you wish for.

[sarale23]

We all LOVE this site.
It's so much fun!
No Steven King can describe the characters one can meet on THIS site.

[brooklyncitizen]

Too funny.

[Charlie McHenry]

The fine blog of Sameh Habeeb, http://gazatoday.blogspot.com is replete with eyewitness feature stories and day-by-day reports of the war and reconstruction. Sameh has posted picaaweb sill images of all the destruction and has been reporting from the ground since day one. I've been channeling his daily email reports on Pop Impulse, http://popimpulse.blogspot.com, then on World Impulse as the situation worsened. Had to start a whole new blog just to cover it: http://geoimpulse.blogspot.com. 230 factories gone, 1,800 old citrus trees, countless olive orchards, small metal shops, repair shops, schools & marketplaces all destroyed. The very definition of disproportionate. All done with US arms and US foreign aid $$.

[sarale23]

They shouldn't have fired all those missiles - then the factories and trees and buildings would be still standing.

[LaurieLee]

The news that I see in the US about Gaza is very different from the news I see in Europe, Africa or Central America about Gaza. It will be interesting to see what the people on the ground send in.

[fbr79]

It's not hard to see the same news from Europe, Africa or Central America about anywhere, it's called the internet. Actually a lot of news posted on this website comes from non-American websites. What do you think will be the difference?

[nochaos]

Hogwash! When were you all over the world?? Since the destruction of Gaza??? I don't believe you for a second.

[alexa07]

Don't you watch satellite TV? During the War on Gaza, Euro News provided much superior coverage to BBC & overshot CNN by miles! Euro News is still at it, while ABC World News had Charlie spend a considerable amt. of time last night on whales! While I'm not predisposed to disliking coverage of whales, etc., don't insult me that this is international news. It's a time-filler so we can pretend our news isn't being manipulated. Of course, the best coverage is AJE online!!

[fbr79]

I love the picture of the Hamas dudes in full glorious costumes holding cameras up.

[Chazak]

LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skialethia]

I have a suggestion: Campaign to open the borders and allow humanitarian aid and construction materials in! Do we expect them to rebuild their homes with mud?

Start marching and protesting against this injustice! Where is HOMES FOR HUMANITY?

[fbr79]

No they will build their houses with building materials. I'm sure $900 million can buy a lot of that. I wanna see you march, post a link, can't wait.

[skialethia]

$600 of that mil is going to train Fatah forces, while Gaza gets mud pies.

[sarale23]

Me too, I cannot wait to see your march.

[nochaos]

Maybe they're building home in the towns the Israelis live in...on the land they won from the Arabs in wars!