The Shelter
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| Initial release | August 10, 2014 |
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| Directors | Fernand Melgar |
| Cinematography | Fernand Melgar |
| Editors | Karine Sudan |
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| ID | 2047566 |
About The Shelter
Filmmaker Fernand Melgar charts a cold winter spent at an emergency shelter for homeless migrants in the wealthy city of Lausanne.
How area once dubbed 'tent city' cut rough sleeping
... At The Shelter, those signing in for the night have faced issues including addiction, relationship breakdown and eviction, which contributed to them ending up on the streets...
Israel-Gaza war: 'I couldn't believe it was possible to kidnap an 85-year-old woman'
... He left his wife and two children in The Shelter of their family home in Nir Oz and went to protect his community as soon as he heard that Hamas gunmen were in the kibbutz...
An English teacher who fled the Taliban finds a home at last
... Soon, I had to return to The Shelter s small, cramped rooms, to meet the 6pm curfew...
Tanzanian student in Israel: 'Shift change saved me, but my friends are Hamas hostages'
... " When I heard the noise, I remembered that we had been told that if we hear the sound of shooting or bombs we should go to The Shelter, so that s what I did...
Strikes on south Gaza: BBC verifies attacks in areas of ‘safety'
... The warning, issued on 8 October, also contained an instruction for residents of Rafah, telling them to immediately go to The Shelter in Rafah city centre " for your safety"...
Ugandan teenage cancer patient: How a bed saved my life
... She says it is not possible to conclusively say that this is all to do with The Shelter that offers aid to children up to the age of 15, but she feels it has played a role...
'I don't eat or sleep' says husband of new mother missing after Hamas attacks
... Later that day, Ido found a survivor who told him that the Hamas militants had thrown grenades into The Shelter, killing Celine s friends...
Ex-soldier fought off Hamas and saved kibbutz neighbours
... Adam calmly guides us to The Shelter, where families are huddled, some of the children crying...
'I don't eat or sleep' says husband of new mother missing after Hamas attacks
By Joel Gunterin Jerusalem, Israel
Last Sunday Morning , Celine Ben David Nagar should have been getting ready for her first day back at work after six happy months on maternity leave.
Instead, she was thought to be somewhere inside Gaza, in The Hands of Hamas, and her family was 24 hours into A Nightmare that is now a week long.
Celine, 32, had set out early on Saturday Morning with Two Friends to attend the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel, but they turned back when they heard rockets ahead.
The Group found their way to a public bomb shelter near Sderot and hid. It was from there, at 07:11, that Celine sent her final message to Ido, her husband and The Father of their baby daughter, Ellie.
" Soldiers are coming, " Celine wrote. " God, it was a mistake to come here. "
Ido sped south towards The Site on Saturday but the military wouldn't let him pass. On Sunday Morning , he found Celine's car, pockmarked with bullet holes but otherwise as she had left it.
Later That Day , Ido found a survivor who told him that the Hamas militants had thrown grenades into The Shelter , killing Celine's friends. But Celine had survived, The Stranger said.
In the Six Days since, it has been all Ido has to hang on to. The only other thing he knows is that her body has not been found.
" You don't sleep and you don't eat and you are in a kind of crazed uncertainty, " He Said , in a phone interview from his home near Tel Aviv. " You are totally helpless. "
Ido broke down in tears as he tried to describe his wife, an Administrative Assistant at the Law Firm where he works, who grew up in France and is a French-Israeli citizen.
" She is an amazing woman, a person who is surrounded by friends and love, " He Said .
" And she is an amazing mother. We have a six-month old baby. This Was supposed to be her one last party to enjoy before she returned to work. We agreed that I would pick her up At Midnight , but she never Came Home . "
The community has rallied around him, With Friends and relatives bringing food and milk to feed Ellie, who Celine was breastfeeding, and to help Take Care of her.
Much of Ido's Time Is taken up with the effort to highlight the plight of the hostages. He is in a WhatsApp group with other relatives, where they share information.
Little is known about the location or condition of the roughly 150 hostages believed to have been taken into Gaza. They were seized from towns along the Israel-Gaza border as well as from military bases in the area, and they include children and babies, elderly people and people with disabilities.
Hamas said it had hidden the hostages in " safe places and tunnels" but has threatened to kill them if civilian homes are bombed by Israel Without Warning .
For Ido and The Hundreds of other close relatives, it is A Nightmare from which they cannot wake up.
" I try to fight it in every way I can think of, I try to be optimistic and I try to think positive thoughts, " He Said , through The Tears .
" I want To Believe that she is alive there, in Gaza, and maybe she is taking care of The Children who were kidnapped with her.
" I just hope that she knows that We Are fighting for her, and that she is telling herself she will come home. "
More on Israel Gaza warRelated TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
