by Oui
Sat Oct 19th, 2024 at 07:36:09 AM EST
I had a chance to discuss a film about Palestine and economic hazards of Bedouins in remote villages where income from sheep herding is not enough for basic needs to survive ... the occupation weighs heavily on Palestinians.
Devil Driver's Feature | Doha Film Institute |
The Devil's Drivers (2021) - Documentary | HD Trailer - English Subtitles |
Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique has snapped up international rights to feature documentary The Devil's Drivers, which is making its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month.
The human trafficking documentary is co-directed by Germany's Daniel Carsenty and Mohammed Abu Geth.
It tells the story of two Bedouin cousins who smuggle undocumented workers through the Middle East West Bank situated in Yatta and Southern Hills of Hebron. It features a series of car chases as the cousins take increasingly hazardous decisions in order to protect their families. Carsenty and Abu Geth filmed for eight years with the traffickers.
This film shows the effects of decades of Israeli occupation and the harsh treatment from Israeli army, border police and in the last years under the Biden administration, the extreme violence from settlers in illegal outposts under protection of Israeli soldiers. A train wreck waiting to happen.
Although the makers of the film had a limited intent on the narrative, I was grabbed by the scenes where further attention would have illustrated the complexity of life under apartheid and a military regime favouring illegal settlers and outpost across all of the West Bank.
Expanding Israel proper beyond the Green Line is the cause of so much bloodshed and enduring human rights violations by the Jewish State of Israel with its capital in West-Jerusalem.
Occupied West Bank: Surging Israeli settler violence puts Palestinian Bedouins on edge
The Devil Driver's Official Dutch trailer | Amstelfilm |
Pursued by the army, a human smuggler crosses the border every day. An intimate but harrowing portrait - filmed over eight years - of a man with a precarious existence in one of the world's most dangerous regions.
In the area south of Hebron, in a vast and beautiful landscape, live indigenous Bedouin. In their midst, Israeli settlers have built walled villages on the hills, cutting the people off from their land and water supply. Exhausted by years of conflict, the Bedouin seek construction work in Israel. But the government sees them as a security risk.
Only men who are married and have at least one child are granted work permits.
More on historic background of apartheid and human rights abuse of 75 years illegal occupation by the Jewish State of Israel. To catch the essence of Palestinians' future ...
H O P E L E S S N E S S
Israel-Palestine: The War That Cannot Be Seen
▼▼▼ | Southern Hebron Hills - B'Tselem |
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Bedouin community near settlement faces expulsion
Civil Administration plans to expel tens of thousands of Bedouins from Area C | B'Tselem |
The Palestinian women refusing to let their village be demolished | Al Jazeera |
The Palestinian Bedouin village of Khirbet Susiya has long been under Israeli threat of demolition. Young Palestinians are learning how to fight back.
Khirbet Susiya, occupied West Bank - Heyam Nawajah never knows what to tell her daughter when she asks why they don't have a home.
"My daughter keeps asking: `Why don't we have a house? Why can't we build a house? Why can't I have my own room?'" the Palestinian Bedouin mother of six said.
According to the 31-year-old Heyam, the Nawajahs have lived in Khirbet Susiya since the early 19th century.
Khirbet Susiya, like the other Palestinian Bedouin villages located south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, is home to small groups of families organised into kinship networks that make a living tending their olive trees and their herds of sheep.
While other villages south of Hebron - known collectively as Masafer Yatta - are located in what Israel labels "Firing Zone 918", which it has used to justify the destruction of permanent structures and the expulsion of residents living in the villages, Khirbet Susiya's history follows a series of complex legal mandates by the Israeli government, all of which have been used to justify the same destruction and expulsion.
According to Heyam, her four daughters and two sons have lived their whole lives with the threat that, one day, their home may be demolished.
One Palestinian killed as Israeli settlers attack West Bank village | The Guardian |
For financial gain, even a IDF soldier stands accused ...
EU protest a few years ago ...
Radicalization of Palestinian youth and the terror of the Islamic State
Ofer as a detention center in 2002, and transferred managerial authority of Ofer Prison from the occupying military to the Israeli Prison Services in 2005. Known as ’Ofer Camp’
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What are Israeli settlements and why are they illegal under international law? | Middle East Eye |
Human Rights Council Hears that 700,000 Israeli Settlers are Living Illegally in the Occupied West Bank – Meeting Summary (Excerpts)
The Human Rights Council heard the presentation of a report by the High Commissioner for Human Rights which stated that the current Israeli plan to double the settler population in the occupied Syrian Golan by 2027 was unprecedented, and that 700,000 Israeli settlers are living illegally in the occupied West Bank.
Christian Salazar Volkmann, Director of the Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, presented the High Commissioner’s report on Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan, which analysed developments related to settlement advancement over the last decade. From 2012 to 2022, the population of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, had grown from 520,000 to over 700,000. These settlers lived illegally in 279 Israeli settlements across the occupied West Bank, including 14 settlements in the occupied East Jerusalem, with a total population of more than 229,000 people. At least 147 of these settlements were outposts, illegal even under Israeli domestic law.
The report documented a correlation between the expansion of outposts and settler attacks against Palestinians. During the past decade, the United Nations had verified 3,372 violent incidents by settlers, injuring 1,222 Palestinians. Last year, settler violence reached the highest levels ever recorded by the United Nations. Israel had failed to investigate and prosecute crimes against Palestinians committed by settlers and Israeli forces.
Archive posts E Jerusalem @EuroTrib …
Days of Kahane Terror Returns
Illegal Israeli Settler Roads Are Surging Across West Bank Since Oct. 7 | WSJ – 7 Mar 2024 |
Terror at Sarona Market; 4 murdered, 16 wounded | Ynet News – 8 June 2016 |
A terrorist attack at Tel Aviv's Sarona Market, adjacent to Ministry of Defense; IDF HQ, has left four dead and at least 16 wounded, one of them critically
An investigation by the Israel Security Agency revealed the shooters were influenced by propaganda videos of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), but did not receive aid or instruction or pledge allegiance to the Islamic State [attention: is Sunni extremism held over from America’s War on Terror … is not Shia from Iran]. Ayash Musa Zayn, their friend from Yatta helped the two with the planning of the attack and secured their weapons. The two were also assisted by Salim Mognam (23) of Yatta, who helped them infiltrate Israel through a break in the separation barrier.
Palestine: International law obliges Israel to end occupation, says rights panel | UN News - today |
