Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Eyal Sivan | 61 minutes

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AQABAT JABER: PEACE WITHOUT RETURN?

Dir. Eyal Sivan Documentary 1995 61 min.

The right to return of the Palestinian refugees, is at the heart of the
IsraeliPalestinian conflict, and will determine the future of the Middle
East. Having made the earlier film Aqabat Jaber, Passingthrough (1987) just
before the first Intifada, director Eyal Sivan returns to this refugee camp
the day after the evacuation of the region by the Israeli army. A few
kilometres from Jericho and built 50 years ago, AqabatJaber is today a
refugee camp under Palestinian control. Its 3,000 inhabitants have not,
however, seen their status change. According to the peace treaty, they are
still refugees and cannot go back to the villages from which their parents
fled.

Can peace between Israel and Palestine be possible without the return of
the Palestinian refugees to their homeland, which has now become Israel?
Does the return, either physical or symbolic, of people that suffered an
injustice in 1948 when the state of Israel was created have to take place?
This analogical film tells the story of the Palestinian refugees who, like
all refugees, are the deported populations and displaced persons, and are
the centre of the great conflicts of our time.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/40482455

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