HU OSA 392-2-9:39/1

[Demolished Homes, Interview with Eid Sawaid Regarding Kammaneh Village]

Item

Moving Image

55 minutes

Arabic (Original)

Nazareth [Footage: Raw; Partners: HRA Israel]

Not Restricted

raw material

Kammaneh is one of the "unrecognized villages" in Israel destroyed, threatened with destruction, and/or lacking in services. This footage shows demolished house outside Majd Al-Krum village (outside Karmiel) for lack of building permit [note: house was demolished after residents were relocated] / B-roll of Al-Jelasi neighborhood in Kammaneh and Interview re destruction of Kammaneh village despite land rights. Eid Sawaid uses a map to explain the geography of the Kammaneh village and surrounding Jewish settlement. He recounts how officials deemed their homes, which have stood on their ancestral land for years, as illegal and invalid. Jewish settlers were given basic services and the right to build. The native Arab and Bedouin villagers were not. He details how the Jewish agency arrived and, first, simply did not recognize the village, then restricted how they could live, and finally shattered the village and relocated certain families. He tells how this situation is detrimental to the families, their relations, quality of education and basic quality of life.