NIDA’ GAZA (GAZA’S CRY) is the search for answers to disturbing questions posed by families in the Gaza Strip, four years after Israel’s Operation Cast Lead and immediately after Operation Pillar of Defense.  ​

In 2009 during the Israeli incursion into the territory, in a terrifying short span, the lives of farmer Mohammed Obied, his wife and children – along with thousands of other Gazans - were altered forever. 

Mohammed asks, “Why were my parents shot dead and their bodies left on a road for five days?  Why were my animals slaughtered and my home and barn demolished? We are not members of the resistance, we are peaceful farmers.​

Again in 2012 during Israel’s Operation Pillar of Cloud, Jehad Mishharwi lost his eleven month old son along with his brother and sister-in-law, as a missile crashed through the roof of their home. 

Jehad asks, “What did my baby son do to the Israelis, is he a threat to the Israeli State?....There were no fighters in my home, why were we targeted?”

The political and military reasons have not been explained satisfactorily to Mohammed, Jehad or the international community. 
The documentary, Nida’ Gaza will travel from the Gaza Strip to Geneva, the United States and Israel  in a bid to answer this “nida”, this collective cry. The investigation will be chronicled online and in print, in a real time narrative, as the story evolves.  It is a journalistic documentary format never before utilized to its full potential; integrating an online real time fact-finding investigation into the why of war, leading to a broadcast documentary that will pull all the pieces of this forensic and geopolitical puzzle together.