General information

Call No.:

392-2-9:9/1

Part of series

HU OSA 392-2-9 Video Recordings of WITNESS: WITNESS Partners' Raw Footage: Arab Association for Human Rights

Located at

DVD-ROM #9 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 392-2-9_009

Date of production

1999

Date

1999

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

Arabic

Duration

1 hour 2 min.

Notes

Gitagata Re-education Center: Rahat / Bedouin villages [Footage: Raw; Partners: Jimmie Briggs/HRA Israel]

Content

Form/Genre

Raw material

Contents Summary

Footage shows: Rahat LS area with Arab homes (poor) / VS homes EXT with mother and kids / VS souk (market area) , landscape, a Bedouin home and family, house construction with minaret in background / desert scenes of the Negev near Beersheva / VS a landfill near a Bedouin village with bulldozers / LSs Bedouin village / VS Bedouin villages and the Negev landscape from the car including fenced-in and barbed-wired water pipes.
In the wake of Israeli government expropriation of Negev Bedouin lands, seven settlements were established for the resettlement of Bedouin who had been removed from their villages . The largest of these settlements is Rahat Rahat was established in 1972 in the north of the Negev . From its establishment until 1989 Rahat was managed by Israeli government appointees. Rahat is the largest of seven permanent settlements set up to concentrate the region's Bedouin population. In June 1994 Rahat was officially recognized as a city.

Context

Associated Names

WITNESS (Copyright holder)

Human Rights Association (HRA) (Copyright holder)