(Note: This tiny little review occasioned a complaint to the paper accusing me of anti-Semitism, lol.)

Twenty-three-year-old documentarian Mohamed Jabaly embeds himself with an ambulance crew, not entirely with their blessing, immediately after witnessing his neighbour’s house reduced to a pile of rubble during Israel’s assault on Gaza in 2014. By the end of our 80-minute immersion in this lopsided “war”, the body count includes children and some of the emergency workers encountered by Jabaly—although not the seemingly charmed driver Abu, who goes back to work with a chunk of shrapnel in his head after a particularly sadistic ambush. Among the other details we pick up: in a vile form of psychological terrorism, Israeli forces call residents to warn of incoming missiles which might arrive a minute or two later, or never at all, while cease-fires are apparently observed by one side only. Utterly heartbreaking. 

Georgia Straight, May 2017