General information

Call No.:

392-2-9:5/1

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 #5 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 392-2-9_005

Date of production

1999

Date

1999

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

Arabic

Duration

33 min.

Notes

Rahat, Om-Dahn, East Jerusalem, [Footage: Raw; Partners: Jimmie Briggs/HRA Israel]

Content

Form/Genre

Raw material

Contents Summary

Brief shot of the resettlement city of Rahat and desert landscape as well as images of daily life in the Bedouin village of Om-Dahn in the Negev desert. Exterior and interior footage of homes, a school, a bathroom, electrical generator shed. Images of horses, a mother with her children, a telephone, a tractor. Also, footage of the accommodations where Matt McGough (videographer) stayed in Nazareth, as well as a demolished Arab home in East Jerusalem.
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)