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Several people carrying bags and bedding walk along a dirt road between heavily damaged buildings in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian families moving through damaged Gaza

People carrying belongings walk along a road between heavily damaged buildings in the Gaza Strip.

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Forced Displacement of Gaza Strip Residents During the Gaza-Israel War 23-25.jpg
Photographer
Jaber Jehad Badwan
Source
Photographer-supplied file on Wikimedia Commons
Date
Location
Gaza Strip
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Original file size
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A man sits on the exposed floor of a heavily damaged multi-storey home surrounded by broken concrete and walls.

A man at his destroyed home in Deir al-Balah

A man sits on an exposed floor amid the remains of a heavily damaged home in Deir al-Balah.

Wikimedia Commons title
A Palestinian man sits on the rubble of his destroyed home by the Israeli bombing that continue on Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip.jpg
Photographer
Ashraf Amra
Source
UNRWA, via Wikimedia Commons
Date
Location
Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip
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Adults and children gather around large cooking pots while food is served into metal containers outdoors.

Food distribution in Deir al-Balah

Adults and children wait with containers while food is served from large cooking pots in Deir al-Balah.

Wikimedia Commons title
Displaced Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip 2.jpg
Photographer
Ashraf Amra
Source
UNRWA, via Wikimedia Commons
Date
Location
Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip
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1,200 × 800 pixels
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Film sources and credits

These credits identify the sources used in the campaign films and retain their individual licence terms. Archive rights statements are reproduced conservatively; “no known restrictions” is not a worldwide public-domain guarantee. Source creators, people depicted and institutions are not presented as endorsing Three Days Down.

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Three Days Down — End the Suffering

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Photographs were resized and statically cropped or reframed; captions and campaign wordmark were added. Documentary footage was trimmed and muted beneath the campaign music.

  1. Opening destruction footage; aid-truck footage — Mazen Belbissi / Tasnim News Agency. Date: 2023-10-29. Rights: CC BY 4.0.

    Report on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza following the 2023 total blockade · CC BY 4.0 ·

  2. Injured displaced child — Hussein Jaber / UNRWA. Date: 12 February 2025. Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Yamen was injured during his sixth displacement · CC BY-SA 4.0 ·

  3. Sewage beside displacement tents — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 2024-08-20. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Sewage water near tents in Deir el-Balah · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  4. Evacuation from Hamad quarter — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 2024-08-11. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Families fleeing Hamad quarter · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  5. Polio vaccination — Mohammed Hinnawi / UNRWA. Date: 22 February 2025. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Displaced child receives polio vaccination · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  6. Return after ceasefire announcement — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 19 January 2025. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Residents of northern Gaza search for their homes · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  7. Humanitarian tents — UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. Date: 2025-12-01 14:04:32. Rights: CC BY 4.0.

    UK-funded tents arrive in Gaza — 54959121313 · CC BY 4.0 ·

Music: Three Days Down — official track. The music is supplied by the campaign; image and footage licences do not license the soundtrack.

No Little Hands to Hold — A Father’s Plea to Humanity

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Photographs were resized, placed on a plain matte and faded, with campaign text added. Aid-footage excerpts were trimmed, scaled and muted beneath the song.

A creative lament: the real people shown are not represented as the fictional family described in the song.

  1. Growing Up in Gaza — Al Jazeera English. Date: 2009-01-06 22:35. Rights: CC BY-SA 2.0.

    Source · CC BY-SA 2.0 ·

  2. Sabha, 6, getting ready to walk to school in the eastern Gaza Strip — Eman Mohammed / UNESCO. Date: 2009-03-10 16:05:30. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  3. Displaced children play inside an UNRWA school shelter in Jabalia camp — Abedallah Alhaj / UNRWA. Date: 2024-02-17. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  4. Displaced children after an evacuation order in eastern Deir el-Balah — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 2024-08-16. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  5. A Palestinian woman and her children in front of their destroyed home — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 2024-08-07. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  6. A child looking at destruction from the roof of his home — Rawanmurad2025. Date: 2024-06-03. Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Source · CC BY-SA 4.0 ·

  7. A displaced Palestinian girl sleeps in the street after an evacuation order — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 21 August 2024. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  8. A displaced child stands in front of a shelter tent — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 2024-08-22. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  9. A displaced child takes care of his brother — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 2024-08-04. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  10. Daily life of displaced people in Deir el-Balah — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 2024-12-06. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  11. A Palestinian man on the rubble of his destroyed home — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 07-08-2024. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  12. Displaced Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 2024-06-26. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  13. A girl walks through Gaza to get food — Jaber Jehad Badwan. Date: 2024-08-25. Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Source · CC BY-SA 4.0 ·

  14. A displaced child after an evacuation order in eastern Deir el-Balah — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 2024-08-16. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  15. A boy holding a pigeon — Hla.bashbash. Date: 2025-03-04. Rights: CC BY 4.0.

    Source · CC BY 4.0 ·

  16. Kids playing in the rain — Hla.bashbash. Date: 2025-03-04. Rights: CC BY 4.0.

    Source · CC BY 4.0 ·

  17. Children carrying belongings for displacement — Jaber Jehad Badwan. Date: 2025-01-25 11:52. Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Source · CC BY-SA 4.0 ·

  18. A father and his children carrying belongings for displacement — Jaber Jehad Badwan. Date: 2025-01-25 11:30. Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Source · CC BY-SA 4.0 ·

  19. Forced displacement of Gaza Strip residents — Jaber Jehad Badwan. Date: 2025-01-29. Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Source · CC BY-SA 4.0 ·

  20. Displaced children on the rubble of their destroyed home in Nuseirat camp — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 23 January 2025. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  21. A child carrying food for his family — Jaber Jehad Badwan. Date: 2025-01-24 12:29. Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Source · CC BY-SA 4.0 ·

  22. Children selling canned goods during the Gaza war — Jaber Jehad Badwan. Date: Not stated in the source record; do not infer it from the filename. Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Source · CC BY-SA 4.0 ·

  23. Return of displaced people via Al-Rasheed Street after the ceasefire — Hussein Jaber / UNRWA. Date: 2025-01-27. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  24. An UNRWA staff member comforts a distressed child at a school shelter — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 2025-03-12. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  25. Displaced Palestinians receive food from charitable Tekiya during Ramadan — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 4 March 2025. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  26. UK-funded tents arrive in Gaza for UNICEF distribution — Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. Date: 2025-12-01 14:02:44. Rights: CC BY 4.0.

    Source · CC BY 4.0 ·

  27. Destroyed infrastructure beside Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital in western Gaza — Yousef Alnono. Date: 2026-01-01 17:21:39. Rights: CC BY 4.0.

    Source · CC BY 4.0 ·

  28. U.S. Air Force, Army airdrop 66 pallets of humanitarian aid to Gaza — Alexander Cook / United States Air Forces Central. Date: 1 March 2024. Rights: Public domain (as recorded by DVIDS).

    Official DVIDS record · DVIDS usage conditions and non-endorsement notice ·

  29. AFCENT deploys AMC C-17s to enhance humanitarian airdrops into Gaza — Sarah Williams / United States Air Forces Central. Date: 13 March 2024. Rights: Public domain (as recorded by DVIDS).

    Official DVIDS record · DVIDS usage conditions and non-endorsement notice ·

  30. Humanitarian Assistance Into Gaza — U.S. Central Command Public Affairs. Date: 5 March 2024. Rights: Public domain (as recorded by DVIDS).

    Official DVIDS record · DVIDS usage conditions and non-endorsement notice ·

  31. U.S. Air Force airdrops humanitarian aid for Gaza from C-17 — Caleb Roland / United States Air Forces Central. Date: 29 March 2024. Rights: Public domain (as recorded by DVIDS).

    Official DVIDS record · DVIDS usage conditions and non-endorsement notice ·

The appearance of U.S. Department of War (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement.

Music: No Little Hands to Hold. The music is supplied by the campaign; image and footage licences do not license the soundtrack.

Three Days Down — Historical Timeline

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Archival photographs were resized and statically reframed; titles and the campaign wordmark were added. The earlier timeline opening was shortened; documentary excerpts were trimmed and muted beneath the music.

  1. Jaffa aerial and port, 1932 — G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection / Library of Congress (LC-DIG-matpc-22190). Date: 1932. Rights: Library of Congress record: No known restrictions on publication. Collection rights note: Matson rights and restrictions..

    Air views of Palestine; Jaffa and Tel Aviv; distant view from the sea · Matson rights and restrictions ·

  2. Jaffa: packing and exporting oranges — G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection / Library of Congress (LC-DIG-matpc-06245). Date: Between 1898 and 1946 (archive date range; the film uses an approximate c. 1900 label). Rights: Library of Congress record: No known restrictions on publication; same collection rights note above..

    Jaffa. Packing & exporting oranges ·

  3. Alhambra Cinema, Jaffa, 1937 — G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection / Library of Congress (LC-DIG-matpc-03562). Date: 1937. Rights: Library of Congress record: No known restrictions on publication; same collection rights note above..

    Jaffa. Alhambra Cinema ·

  4. Arab Ladies' Union girls' school, 1940–46 — G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection / Library of Congress (LC-DIG-matpc-04562). Date: Between 1940 and 1946. Rights: Library of Congress record: No known restrictions on publication. The catalog identifies the students and teachers at an Arab Women's Union school in Jerusalem..

    Girls' school, group in Musrara Quarter ·

  5. Jewish displaced persons receiving bread, Bindermichl DP camp, Linz — Lepore / U.S. Army; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park (111-SC-234939). Date: After 1946 (USHMM catalogue); the accompanying encyclopedia caption says date uncertain. Rights: Identified as a work made by a U.S. Army employee in official duties and treated as public domain in the United States. International treatment of U.S. federal works can vary..

    catalog record pa1074604 · Holocaust Encyclopedia record ·

  6. Refugee ship **Theodor Herzl**, banner visible, 21 April 1947 — Photographer not identified in the retrieved record / Nationaal Archief, Spaarnestad Photo (7.000SPABB, item 15143). Date: 21 April 1947. Rights: The item page provides an original-size download and marks the image Rechtenvrij (rights-free). The National Archives' reuse terms state that downloadable images marked Public Domain or CC0 are reusable without restrictions..

    record 35429da5-dbca-a382-e063-6df0900a6686 · reuse terms ·

  7. Exodus passengers at Haifa before deportation, 18 July 1947 — Hans Pinn; Haifa Archive / National Photo Collection, via Israel Preker and PikiWiki. Date: 1947 (source record; the film identifies the Exodus episode of July 1947). Rights: The file page says the uploader/rightsholder released the work into the public domain worldwide and, where that is not legally possible, permits use for any purpose without conditions..

    File 114626 Haifa Exodus ·

  8. Child waiting for food — UNRWA Archive, photographer unknown. Date: 1948–1949. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Palestine refugee girl and baby brother await rations · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  9. Women receiving bread — UNRWA Archive, photographer unknown. Date: 1948. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Palestine refugee women receiving bread · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  10. Open-air school after displacement — UNRWA Archive, photographer unknown. Date: 1948. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    First school classes in Jericho held in the open air · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  11. Refugees crossing damaged Allenby Bridge — Unknown photographer. Date: 1967. Rights: Public domain under the PD-Israel notice on Wikimedia Commons; check applicable territorial treatment when redistributing.

    Palestinian refugees crossing the destroyed Allenby Bridge ·

  12. Refugee shelter after June 1967 — UNRWA Archive, photographer unknown. Date: 1971. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    First shelter for refugees who fled the West Bank · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  13. First Intifada school closure — Munir Nasr / UNRWA. Date: 1992. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Children leaving an alternative classroom at Nuseirat mosque · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  14. Khan Younis destruction during Second Intifada — Adnan Abu Hasna / UNRWA. Date: 2001. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Women at the destruction of Khan Younis camp · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  15. Gaza barrier — DYKT Mohigan. Date: 2008-01-25 06:16:49. Rights: CC BY 2.0.

    Gaza IMGP4146 · CC BY 2.0 ·

  16. Fishing footage — Al Jazeera. Date: 2009-02-04. Rights: CC BY 3.0.

    Gaza Fishing · CC BY 3.0 ·

  17. Family footage — Al Jazeera. Date: 2009-01-22. Rights: CC BY 3.0.

    Gaza Family · CC BY 3.0 ·

  18. Damaged UNRWA school — UNRWA Archive, photographer unknown. Date: 30 July 2014. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    UNRWA school damaged during the 2014 conflict · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  19. Dublin solidarity march footage — Union Solidarity International. Date: 2014-07-20. Rights: CC BY 3.0.

    Dublin protests in solidarity with people of Gaza · CC BY 3.0 ·

  20. Gaza boundary protest footage — Heather Murdock / Voice of America. Date: 2018-05-14. Rights: Public domain.

    Deadly Protests in Gaza as US Opens Jerusalem Embassy ·

  21. Damaged UNRWA headquarters — Mohamed Hinnawi / UNRWA. Date: 19 May 2021. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    UNRWA headquarters after an air strike · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  22. Damage in Israel after 7 October attacks — Kobi Gideon. Date: 11 October 2023, 14:25. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Gaza envelope after the coordinated surprise offensive · CC BY-SA 3.0 ·

  23. Damage in Gaza — WAFA / APAimages. Date: 2023-10-10 13:13:57. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Damage in the Gaza Strip during October 2023 · CC BY-SA 3.0 ·

  24. Destruction and aid-truck footage — Mazen Belbissi / Tasnim News Agency. Date: 2023-10-29. Rights: CC BY 4.0.

    Report on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza · CC BY 4.0 ·

  25. Displaced people trying to return north — Ashraf Amra / UNRWA. Date: 14 April 2024. Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

    Displaced people try to return to northern Gaza · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ·

  26. Ruined Gaza street — Jaber Jehad Badwan. Date: 2025-02-23 09:39. Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Images of war 23–25, IMG 6048 · CC BY-SA 4.0 ·

  27. Humanitarian tents — UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. Date: 2025-12-01 13:59:05. Rights: CC BY 4.0.

    UK-funded tents arrive in Gaza — 54959191294 · CC BY 4.0 ·

  28. Destroyed infrastructure — Yousef Alnono. Date: 2026-01-01 17:21:39. Rights: CC BY 4.0.

    Destroyed infrastructure in the Gaza Strip · CC BY 4.0 ·

  29. Silent protest in Kingston upon Hull — Hullian111. Date: 2026-05-17 13:08:15. Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Pro-Palestine protest on Whitefriargate · CC BY-SA 4.0 ·

Event headings give historical context; each source's date above identifies when its image or clip was made. Some later photographs illustrate earlier events and their consequences. The approximate 78% figure refers to former Mandatory Palestine west of the Jordan River after the 1949 armistices. Calls for peaceful collective action express the campaign's position.

Music: Three Days Down — Voices of the Earth (global choir). The music is supplied by the campaign; image and footage licences do not license the soundtrack.

Three Days Down — People’s Dome

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AI-generated campaign illustration; no documentary-photo attribution is asserted for this film.

Music: People’s Dome — owner-supplied original song. The music is supplied by the campaign; image and footage licences do not license the soundtrack.