Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Hanaa Mahameed | 22 minutes

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They Want Them Gone

by Hanaa Mahameed. documentary 22 min. Palestine, 2017. Arabic, Engl. ST.

Among yellow dunes and rough mountains, there lives around 25 thousand Palestinians. The Israeli government has been trying for decades to limit them to the smallest area possible. In more than 40 villages denied of recognition lives the Negev Bedouins. They carry the Israeli nationality to stay in their homeland, but they are battled by being deprived from the basic rights and life conditions, such as housing, water, and electricity. The Bedouins want to live and develop on their grandparents’ historical lands, but the Israeli State has another plan. It wants to seize these lands and use them to expand Jewish settlements. To Israel, Bedouin Palestinians in the Negev Desert are nothing but a mirage.