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  • Jallah (2016)

    The village of Gagjali (or Godjali) is a frontier village, awfully close to the front line of Mosul in Iraq.
    Every day arriving there, by feet or by some fortune vehicles, many families fleeing war directed towards the nearby refugee camps, stopping for a short rest.
    Jallah is a word that mean: "go fast, move, don't waste your time" and it can hear every time the fugitives arrive.
    In the village there's a small hospital which run by American volunteers of the N.G.O. Academy of Emergency Medicines, these young people providing first aid services to those who have need.
    Their work is terrible and grueling, the hospital is just few more than an abandoned house, often they must work with the lack of material and in particular with the lack of blood for transfusions, every time the injured begins to bleed is over.
    Children are the hardest patients to treat because of their low threshold of pain that makes them move all the time and for their body frailty.
    Once rescued, the most critical patient are transported by ambulance to the nearest and better equipped hospital.
    The economic activities are almost extinct, just some shepherd and some kid who sells tea and snacks to foreign journalists.

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    a group of women arrived by a pick-up from mosul
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    a humvee bring an injured soldier to the hospital
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    an injured man arrived to the hospital brought by his children
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    the care to a scared child

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    an old man injured to jaw and head by shrapnel
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    a family cry the loss of the matriarch
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    the foot of a dead man
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    a family escaped from mosul found a passage to mosul by a pick-up. they use a old whit shirt as white flag
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    a vehicle arrived in the late evening with an injured man
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    the cares to a injured man in the evening. often the doctors don't have electricity, so also the light of a smartphone is indispensable
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    a woman worried for her child
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    doctors put a seriously injured patient in the ambulance headed to a better equipped hospital

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    a man bring his mom in wheelchair
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    people escaping from mosul during a sand storm. during these storms the i.s. take advantage of lack of visibility to fight back
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    a guy walk near the corpse of a dead i.s. soldier
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