OM MOHAMMAD, MOHAMMAD’S MOTHER

Om Mohammad. Mohammad’s mother reflects a day in Sabah’s life, a woman from Khuza’ah, a village located in the Gaza Strip beside the border with Israel. She is a widow and lives there with four of her five children.
She and her family have seen their lands and farms being destroyed by Israeli bulldozers to create a “buffer zone” along the entire common border. In a context of economic shortage, lack of opportunities and limits to freedom of speech, her oldest son, Mohammad, fled to Spain with a status of political refugee.
Sabah remembers him and prays every day for his return, while she sees how another of her sons, Abdo, desperately wants to escape from the Gaza Strip too. This intends to be a portrait of daily life, problems and expectations shared by many women in the Gaza Strip.