From Al-Araqib to Susiya: Adalah Releases New Film for Nakba Day

16/05/2013

On the commemoration of the 65 Nakba Day, Adalah is releasing a short documentary film,"From Al-Araqib to Susiya." The film tells the story of two Palestinian villages along the Green Line: Al-Araqib, whose residents are Palestinian citizens of Israel, and Susiya, from the occupied West Bank. It show Israel's parallel displacement policies in both places, and the families' determination to resist.

On the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, Adalah is releasing a short documentary film:

"From Al-Araqib to Susiya"

The film tells the story of two Palestinian villages along the Green Line: Al-Araqib, whose residents are Palestinian citizens of Israel, and Susiya, in the occupied West Bank. It shows Israel’s parallel displacement policies on both sides of the Green Line, and the people’s determination to resist.

Commemorating the Nakba should not only include remembering the deaths and displacement that were part of the disaster that befell the Palestinian people in 1948, but should also expose ongoing Israeli policies to dispossess Palestinians of their land until today.

In conjunction with the film, Adalah also released a report entitled “Forced Displacement on Both Sides of the Green Line.”

The report reveals strong similarities between the Naqab (Negev), where over 2,200 houses were demolished and more than 14,000 people displaced between 2008 and 2011, and Area C of the West Bank, where more than 1,000 buildings were demolished and 2,200 people displaced between 2008 and 2010. In addition, the Israeli government’s future plans for each area are remarkably similar: in Area C plans include the demolition of 38 Palestinian villages, and the Prawer Plan in the Naqab will forcibly displace up to 70,000 Palestinians from their land in the 35 unrecognized Bedouin villages.

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