- Gaza ghetto
"Gaza Ghetto" is the short form title of a documentary film produced by
Joan Mandell ,Pea Holmquist , andPierre Bjorklund in 1984 about the life of a Palestinian family living in theJabalia refugee camp. Reportedly the first documentary ever to be made in Gaza, the movie featuresAriel Sharon ,Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and soldiers on patrol "candidly discuss [ing] their responsibilities." [cite web|title=Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family|publisher=New Day Films|accessdate=2008-01-24|url=http://www.newday.com/films/GazaGhetto.html]The film
In his book, "An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking", Hamid Naficy describes "Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Family, 1948 - 1984" as an "early important film" on the
Palestinian refugee situation.cite book|title="An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking"|publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2001|isbn=0691043914]The film follows a refugee family from the
Gaza Strip who go to take a look at the site of their former village, now the site of a Jewish settlement insideIsrael . As the grandfather and great-grandfather point out an orchard andsycamore fig that used to belong to Muhammed Ayyub and Uncle Khalil, a Jewish resident emerges and orders them to leave, claiming they need a permit to be at the site. The mother tells him that, "We work inJaffa andTel Aviv and that's not forbidden," to which he replies, "Here it's forbidden." Ted Swedenburg describes this scene in "Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past" and writes: "While chasing the refugee family off, he asserts forcibly that the site is "his" home."cite book|title="Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past"|author=Ted Swedenburg|year=2003|publisher=University of Arkansas Press |isbn=1557287635|page=72]References
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