Let me start by saying, this could have been a good documentary if it wasn't so biased toward one side and so blatantly anti-Semitic. There were no Jews in this film. Everyone in the film HATED Jews with a passion. They show lots of Palestinians being shot up and stories about being gassed and so on. Every single frame in this film is meant to sway the viewer toward the Palestinian side. I don't know how anyone could watch this and think it represents any truth at all. See, the funny thing about the Palestinian state is that they don't want you to have both sides of the story. It's just like any other extremist..."there is only one way, one right, one choice." Unfortunate, for this way of thinking is how people are controlled and pacified. Smart people know there are multiple sides and stories. Smart people want to hear all sides of a debate. Smart people don't steal copper when the owner's gun is pointed at them. This movie is very dumb. I only gave it a 2 because it had some nice footage, otherwise it is a 1 and a total waste of time.

What an eye-opener- Stone Age politics, as seen through the eyes of children... "We were like a knot that could not be undone," our thirteen-year-old guide tells us... referring to his dead childhood friends. "The beautiful places, they take you away," he says wistfully at one point. "If only Allah would send an avenging angel..." Make room for more crowding... "... it's all the same dog." Heavy-handed politics, to be sure: stone-throwing versus automatic weapons, kids ducking and running for cover whenever their "betters" decide to cut loose with a burst- and, most shocking of all, the release of poison gas on a defenseless populace. This last was a new one on me. (Not new in the sense that I hadn't already read A HIGHER FORM OF KILLING or seen documentary footage of its use before, but new in that I'd never heard of it being used in this particular situation.) "In the end I am nothing," the kid who has been hammered into submission offers: "All of life is nothing..." "I want to leave this life," he concludes. "He is from nowhere," someone says at one point. "May God enlighten both sides."

I had a discussion with the director of this movie not a while ago about other film, "death in Gaza" which I think clearly states his opinion, even before shooting this film, about the middle east conflict, and how I myself view his so called documentary. everyone can understand from this whatever they want. you can find it in: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412631/board/nest/12270140 he start his comments from the middle of the thread.Oh, and by the way, someone here stated in his comments that "There is a huge attempt to smash this film's reputation by writing bad user comments about it -- but check it out: The only kind of reviews "Gaza Strip" gets are either GREAT or "Don't see this film -- it's just lies". Let's see if you can guess who's writing those critical reviews ... could it be ... Zionist supporters of Israeli occupation policy? Hmmm..." well the only thing i can say for this is: 1. if the really bad reviews are from 'zionists supporters' then maybe the really good reviews are from.... .hmm... let me see.... pro Arabs or pro Palestinians maybe. it goes either way guys. the fact is that it doesn't matter if the facts are true or not, this film is not very good by itself. connect to reality. everyone who writes here has political or religious agenda. 2. The fact that you use the word 'zionist' to describe Israeli actions, is ignorant, raciest and just plain dumb. no one here in Israel, and i live here, believes in Zionism anymore. its something of the past, so get over it already. thanks bye

Not only is this film a great example of verite documentary film-making, but it has the courage to take a moral stand and point of view in this extremely controversial conflict. At a time when almost all mainstream media has chosen to forget that the Israelis are militarily occupying the Palestinian Territories, "Gaza Strip" steps forward and pulls out all the stops to show the reality that gets left out of major news reporting.Following a free-form thread of characters and events, the films starts out through the eyes of a 13-year-old paper boy in Gaza. He resurfaces throughout the film and provides a base of narration that carries us through the entire length of the Gaza Strip, from Gaza City to Raffa and Khan Yunis. The scenes in this film are each powerful on their own, but together they are a bleak testimony of the horror of occupation, and a cry for freedom.