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Displacement
News Report: Displaced Palestinians
Air to Shape Lungs: Refugees / Immigrants
People being ethnically cleansed out of their indigenous homeland
People having to leave their homeland against their will to find home elsewhere
Loss of life as they had known it
Looking for a safe space to live, forcing disingenuine connections and rejection of history/culture
Unable to reclaim homes, huge impact on state of living and investment for future generations
CONTEXTUAL INFO
Taught to "forget how to breathe", as in forgetting customs and traditions
Loss of connections with family and friends
Searching for identity, retaining culture & heritage & history
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News Report for Al Jazeera in Ijzim, Occupied Palestine. During May 15 2020, translated version uploaded the day after.
english translation in the description
Ijzim is one of the villages that fell at the hands of Zionist gangs after the establishment of Israel. Many Palestinians were displaced from their homes during the Nakba / Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Nakba 1947-1949, at least 750k Palestinians from a 1.9 million population were made refugees beyond the borders of the state. Zionist forces had taken more than 78% of historic Palestine, ethnically cleansed and destroyed about 530 villages and cities, and killed about 15k Palestinians in a series of mass atrocities, including more than 70 massacres."
The News Report during the Nakba anniversary shows a tour through occupied Palestine where the original Palestinian owners of the home meet its current Jewish residents.
To show how the damages to Palestinians and their land were never fixed or addressed since the Nakba and atrocities still continue to this day. To show how Palestinians still cannot return to their stolen homes and to show that settler Zionists have no sympathy for the people they hurt and treat them as lesser, looking down on them and claiming the Indigenous Palestinians lands as their own.
The original owner of the house Abu Samir says "This was our house, my father’s house. After the ‘48 wars, the Jewish people occupied it."
"After a few minutes, the residents of the house come out to [the gate]. They ask us what we want. We say, this is the owner of the house; how do you feel living in a house built on the wreckage of his house? [The answer] Frankly, I don’t feel anything. I am very happy. Living here is very enjoyable."
"How strange is the distance between the owner of the house and he who is occupying it. How strange is the irony between he who stands inside the gate and he who must stand outside the gate."
Disconnected from family/culture