Body Bags
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Initial release | August 8, 1993 |
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Directors | John Carpenter |
Tobe Hooper | |
Original release | 8 August 1993 (original airdate) |
Initial DVD release | December 29, 1993 |
Screenplay | Dan Angel |
Billy Brown | |
Bille Brown | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 2316363 |
About Body Bags
Filmmaker John Carpenter introduces a trio of terror tales: "Unleaded," "Hair" and Tobe Hooper's "Baseball Man. ".
Israel Gaza: Community frozen as Hamas atrocities continue to emerge
... At one centre, we were shown more than a dozen shipping containers, their shelves stacked with Body Bags of all different sizes...
Aid delivery waits to enter Gaza from Egypt at Rafah crossing
... They have even run out of Body Bags...
Jeremy Bowen: Joe Biden's search for a Middle East solution just got harder
... For Palestinians - not just supporters of Hamas - the piles of bloodstained Body Bags were all the proof they needed...
Zaka: The volunteers giving dignity to Israel's dead
... He grabbed his kit, containing Body Bags, surgical gloves, shoe covers and rags for soaking up blood, and jumped in his car...
Missing peace activist Vivian Silver - son awaits news, good or bad
... When we arrived, the smell of decomposition hung over the wreckage, and the Body Bags of residents were still being brought out of the ruins...
Myanmar: 29 killed in artillery strike on camp for displaced people
... Images shared by local media showed bodies being pulled from the rubble and dozens of Body Bags lying side by side...
Libya floods: 5,300 dead amid calls for humanitarian support
... There have been desperate calls for more humanitarian support as victims lie wrapped in Body Bags and others have been buried in mass graves...
Libya floods: Flooded city buries its dead in mass graves
... A mechanical digger worked in a cemetery where victims wrapped in Body Bags and blankets were buried together...
Missing peace activist Vivian Silver - son awaits news, good or bad
By Jeremy BowenInternational editor
Yonatan Ziegen woke early last Saturday Morning in his home in Tel Aviv to The Sound of alarms, the Red Alert That all Israelis know intimately.
Millions of Israelis and Palestinians were also waking, some hearing explosions as well as sirens, grabbing their phones and starting to follow The News That Hamas had broken into Israel and was on The Attack .
In Israeli communities along The Border wire with Gaza, it soon became clear That This Was an emergency like No Other . Concrete shelters are never More Than a short Run Away , because of years of living with The Threat and reality of rocket attacks from Hamas in Gaza. But when They started hearing shooting, and voices shouting in Arabic, it was Different - Closer and more deadly.
It took Yonatan no time to realise That His Mother , Vivian Silver, was in trouble. He knows The Border territory well, as he grew Up There . His Mother , now widowed, was still living in The Family home in kibbutz Be'eri, a small community right on The Border wire with Gaza.
Vivian is one of Israel's best-known campaigners for peace with the Palestinians. She stayed busy in her retirement, continuing her life's work as an activist, holding meetings - Yonatan Said - with international supporters of her group, Women Wage Peace, only a few days before the Hamas attacks.
Yonatan rang His Mother , and They kept talking as Hamas was moving through the kibbutz. Perhaps trying to cheer them both up, or to stop her thirty-something son from worrying too much, she made light of what was happening, until both realised it was deadly serious and That she was in Mortal Danger .
They switched to WhatsApp so she could stay quiet, hoping Hamas might bypass The House . Yonatan read me their last text messages. Vivien was typing them out from a cupboard in The House where she was hiding. It was time to stop joking. She believed That a massacre was happening.
Vivien wrote That she loved him.
" She wrote me, 'They 're inside The House , it's time to stop joking and Say Goodbye . '"
" And I wrote back That 'I Love You , Mum. I have no words, I'm With You . '
" Then she writes, 'I feel you. ' And Then That was it, That 's the Last Message . "
I asked Yonatan what Vivien would be saying now about everything That has happened.
" That this is the outcome of war. Of not striving for peace, and this is what happens.
" It's very overwhelming but not completely surprising. It's not sustainable To Live in a state of war for so long and now it bursts. It bursts. "
That was around 11:00 on Saturday Morning . Neither Yonatan nor his brother has heard anything since, good or bad. Their mother's kibbutz was one of The First targets of Hamas last Saturday, as it's right on The Border .
Video from a security camera shows them killing A Man in a car at the gate at point Blank Range , as They stormed in and set about killing Israelis. By The Time the Israeli army fought its way back into Be'eri, in a fierce fight That did a lot of damage, it was Too Late to stop The Massacre .
We travelled to the kibbutz with the army, the only way to Get In as it is in what Israel has declared as a closed military area.
When we arrived, The Smell of decomposition hung over The Wreckage , and the Body Bags of residents were still being brought out of The Ruins .
In The Ambulance They used to move bodies, we met volunteers from an organisation called Zaka - That recovers Jewish dead so They can be buried according to their religion's precepts.
On The Way to The House where Vivian Silver lived, Moshe Minaker, a veteran volunteer, spoke of The Horrors They had seen.
" No studio in Hollywood, " He Said , " can make this movie. "
" Kids, Ladies - They don't just kill, They mutilate, They burn, They sever. It's impossible to describe. "
The army didn't allow us much Time In The Street where Vivian Silver lived and brought up her family.
She moved here, long before Hamas emerged, For Space and country air.
We hoped to find out more about What Happened to her. But if there were clues, They were consumed by fire. Vivian's house, and her neighbour's, were gutted.
We don't know if she's alive or dead. Her family, like so many others, waits for news, good or bad.
The Remains of The House , and destruction at the kibbutz, are evidence for most Israelis That it is dangerously wrong for peace activists like Vivian to argue That a century of attempted military solutions to The Conflict have failed.
The Survivors have left the kibbutz. Now it is a staging area as the army waits for The Order to enter Gaza. As The Soldiers prepare, Israel's government vows That , This Time , its forces will destroy Hamas.
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