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Sands of Sorrow (1950)
On the plight of Arab refugees from the Arab-Israeli war. Dorothy Thompson speaks on the refugee problem. Refugees live in tents in the Gaza Strip, are given blankets and food by Egyptian soldiers, and receive flour from UNICEF. A Lebanese priest conducts services. Refugees work as plumbers, carpenters, tailors, and shoemakers in the city of Jerusalem. Doctors vaccinate refugees against disease. Shows the squalid living conditions in refugee camps, starving children, and emphasizes the hopeless condition of the refugees.
Producer: Council for the Relief of Palestine Arab Refugees.
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white.
Creative Commons License: Public Domain.
Source: Internet Archive.
archive.org/details/sands_of_sorrow
(Improved Copy).
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Important Note:
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, Al-Nakba, resulted of at least 750.000 Palestinian Refugees, this documentary shows some of the inhuman conditions, and the misery brought upon them by the Zionist colonization of Palestine, especially the children, one example, and as the documentary explains: "The greatest battle is against infant mortality. Only one out of five lives longer than 6 months". Under-five mortality rate: 800 per 1000 (80%).
In spit of the efforts made in the documentary to bring attention to the humanitarian issues, it falls short of representing what these refugees needed most, their unquestionable right of return to their homes and towns, not a temporarily humanitarian relief while the Zionist settlers were colonizing and taking over the refugees' towns, farms and homes, and changing the geography and history books.
Moshe Dayan said: "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist, not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushu'a in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population." - As quoted in Haaretz, 4 April 1969.
Sands of Sorrow (1950)
On the plight of Arab refugees from the Arab-Israeli war. Dorothy Thompson speaks on the refugee problem. Refugees live in tents in the Gaza Strip, are given blankets and food by Egyptian soldiers, and receive flour from UNICEF. A Lebanese priest conducts services. Refugees work as plumbers, carpenters, tailors, and shoemakers in the city of Jerusalem. Doctors vaccinate refugees against disease. Shows the squalid living conditions in refugee camps, starving children, and emphasizes the hopeless condition of the refugees.
Producer: Council for the Relief of Palestine Arab Refugees.
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white.
Creative Commons License: Public Domain.
Source: Internet Archive.
archive.org/details/sands_of_sorrow
(Improved Copy).
*****
Important Note:
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, Al-Nakba, resulted of at least 750.000 Palestinian Refugees, this documentary shows some of the inhuman conditions, and the misery brought upon them by the Zionist colonization of Palestine, especially the children, one example, and as the documentary explains: "The greatest battle is against infant mortality. Only one out of five lives longer than 6 months". Under-five mortality rate: 800 per 1000 (80%).
In spit of the efforts made in the documentary to bring attention to the humanitarian issues, it falls short of representing what these refugees needed most, their unquestionable right of return to their homes and towns, not a temporarily humanitarian relief while the Zionist settlers were colonizing and taking over the refugees' towns, farms and homes, and changing the geography and history books.
Moshe Dayan said: "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist, not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushu'a in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population." - As quoted in Haaretz, 4 April 1969.
