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Monday, 27 April 2009 |
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We are all Gaza
| | Aswatona’s response to the conflict in Gaza was to pull together the partner stations to concretize a strategy for the media. They began covering all the local activities for assisting the people of Gaza through drives, collections, and peaceful demonstrations. TVs and radios opened their airwaves and screens so that citizens could send announcements and stories of their activities. Municipalities soon joined the Kulona Gaza Campaign with support; advertising dates of shipments for certain items, calls for blood donations, etc. The media outlets adjusted their programming with special segments on dealing with trauma and stress, especially dealing with children. Aswatona, together with UPNN, PNN, and NUR radio network, targeted programming for Gaza through the Hebron radio station partners. Aswatona connected them with key personnel in CHF, the UN, UNWRA, ICRC, and CARE both in the West Bank and Gaza to cover the humanitarian aid and activities in Gaza; they had the breaking news on the humanitarian cease-fire that was picked up by the regional satellite stations; the radio stations started daily broadcast of times and distribution center locations for the day as well as the availability of goods.
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Radio Broadcasts Provide Vital Humanitarian Information to Gazans
 February 9, 2009) “It was darkness, no electricity, and the only thing that connected us to the world was a small radio. We were more than forty people, men, women, and children sleeping in the living room, listening to the radio and moving the tuner from one station to another; no one could sleep." So said Um Ibrahim, a mother of eight living in Khan Younis, south of Gaza City.
Along with forty other relatives, Ibrahim and her family had taken shelter in her brother Abu Ali’s house after the first night of the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in December. More ...
| | Sada TV Network Members Respond
2 January 2009 With the launch of the war on Gaza, Sada Filistene, together with Aswatona, developed a strategy to engage and cover community activities in support of Gaza. The campaign was called, Kulona Gaza (We are all Gaza), and focused on citizen drives, collections, donations and calls for unity coming from the communities. This special episode was the first in the special weekly series. |
The host of the program introduced the program giving an overview of the situation in Gaza and stating the urgent need for national unity. Baladna TV in Qalqilya: covered peaceful marches condemning the Israeli aggression and calling for national unity. Participants, ordinary people and representative of PLO factions, call for the unity and for donations to Gaza. Jenin Merkezi TV in Jenin: covered marches, also calling for national unity. Blood donations, with interviews of the donators. Lawyers strike to protest the aggression. Gama TV in Nablus: covered marches and policemen donating blood. Fajr Al Jadeed TV in Tulkarem: covered marches and sound bites by political figures, and PLC members and blood donations. Rou’ah TV in Bethlehem: covers two demos, one from a church where priests condemn the aggression and another general.
 Survey of the Humanitarian Radio Programming in Gaza
After the cessation of violence, Aswatona once again worked with the stations to shift the messages toward aid assistance, health issues, dangers of unexploded ordinance, and dealing with trauma. The three Hebron radios through UPNN added another partner radio station in Gaza once it was able to go back on air. A brief phone survey was done to gauge the response in Gaza to the radio effort Was the information broadcast by the stations helpful? According to governorate
| Governorate | | North Gaza | Gaza | Rafah | Deir Al-Balah | Khan Younis | Dream |
| 23% | 8% | 11% | 17% | 21% | Al Nawras |
| 23% | 12% | 10% | 19% | 20% | Al Minbar |
| 33% | 18% | 21% | 36% | 37% | Alwan |
| 41% | 38% | 21% | 42% | 38% |
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