Basel Adra is a young Palestinian who lived in the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta. He documented the heartless destruction of people’s modest homes by the Israel Defense Forces. Eventually, he pairs up with an Israeli journalist (Yuval Abraham) in an attempt to get more international attention. The inhabitants are given little notice to empty their homes before bulldozers crush them, leaving some of them to live in caves. The footage shows the relentless incursions that leave the natives bereft, with some of them even wounded. Most of the incredible footage is hand-held and shot on the fly. Even so, they manage to create some beautiful imagery to make the dreadful acts more poignant. Thru it all, the alliance between these men, who are on opposite sides of the conflict, offers a small taste of reconciliation around senseless eradication of the villages.
Surprisingly, the subtitles spell “god” in lower case, but I couldn’t find any explanation. (4.5 / 5)
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Here’s a link to an article about Adra’s recent attack by Israeli settlers.