Monday, March 14, 2016

Revisiting Kfar-Kassem Massacre Documentary

Twenty minutes away from Tel Aviv, 49 children, women and men were shot down and killed by the Israeli army. This took place 60 years ago in the village of Kafr Kassem, which lies in Israel on the 1967 border.


This is an attempt to capture the effects of the massacre and the passage of time on the local heritage.

Many historians refer to this massacre as another attempt to terrorize the local Arabs to provoke them to flee for their safety. Therefore, they consider that this massacre continues the tens of massacres occurs before like Deir Yassin massacre and others that aimed to ethnically cleanse Palestine of its original inhabitants.


We started the project on Feb. 2016. The film will be released in October 2016. Exactly 60 years after the massacre, the film will be a modest commemoration of the people who were left unattended in broad daylight to agonies and die on that day of October 29, 1956.

During the film I interviewed Ismail Badir, who was injured during the Kfar Kassem massacre when he was shot by Israeli soldiers when he got back from his work of selling vegetables in Petah-tikva. The Israeli government still refuses to recognize his injury as a war wound, and instead classifies his wound as a working accident

















UPDATE: first release of the documentary: