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The film offers a short analysis of the lives of children. This is useful to the historian studying the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as the lives of the ordinary people are not always demonstrated in history books or in newspapers. To have such a close encounter of these youngsters is useful to give a ‘feel’ of the situation, unlike dry facts about wars and conflicts. The film offers a different approach to reality. In terms of politics, //Death in Gaza// does not offer a very useful account of facts. It briefly mentions about some of the wars and the basic conflict between Arabs and Palestinians. Thus, in this way (the film) is not very useful to a historian studying the conflict in the Middle East. The last section about martyrdom is relatively useful to the historian. James Miller makes a big thing out of the way the children are ‘brainwashed’ to hate the Jews. This hatred is further exacerbated with one of the boy’s relationship with the Paramilitary group. The film witnesses the death of a couple of martyrs. However, there is no ‘list’ of martyrs or any mention about terrorist groups that train martyrs, which could be useful to a historian studying the conflict. Although he may find the general ‘feel’ of martyrdom as an alternative view to a narrative about martyrdom.