Directors: Pierre Lempereur & Bruno Frere

Editor: Lia Tarachansky 

Year: 2013

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In the heart of the West Bank lives a small community of Palestinian refugees, Beyt Isqariya. For decades they’ve made a home of a small hill beside the historic city of Bethlehem. The villagers are refugees from areas in Israel from which they were expelled in 1948. Since Israel occupied the West Bank of Jordan in 1967, Israeli settlers have been building colonies on the occupied land. Even though the colonies are in contradiction to international law which prohibits a state to transfer its citizens to occupied areas, the Israeli government supports and funds these settlers. In this short film you see the small community of Beit Isqariya receive a demolition order. Their make-shift village is being demolished for the expansion of the nearby settlement and they are ordered to relocate. Displaced a second time, this village is ordered to demolish its own buildings or else pay for the government to do so. In this film you follow Munther Mohammad Sa’ad’s family, listening to his brother read out the demolition order as the family gathers in the living room.