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The Sons of Eilaboun

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The Sons of Eilaboun ( ) is a 2007 documentary film by Palestinian artist and film maker Hisham Zreiq (Zrake), that tells the story of the Eilabun massacre , which was committed by the Israeli army during Operation Hiram in October 1948. Eilaboun is a village in the Northern Galilee between Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee . In the incident, fourteen men were killed and twelve of them were executed. The villagers were expelled to Lebanon and became refugees for few months, before being allowed to return in 1949 as part of an agreement between the state of Israel and Archbishop Maximos V Hakim .1 The film is the story of the film maker's family, and specially his father's story. Hisham Zreiq explained why he made the film when he said "He choked and his eyes were full of tears, and with a trembling voice he said 'I remember it as if it has just happened' -- this is the way he ended the story, the story of a nine-year-old boy from a small village called Eilaboun, in Palestine 1948, the story of my father, when he was a refugee". Hisham Zreiq was acknowledged by Ramiz Jaraisy , the mayor of Nazareth and by Hana Sweid , an Israeli Arab politician and member of the Knesset from Eilaboun , where Jaraisy described the film as an important work that tells the Palestinian story in a contrast with the dominant Israeli version. Gilad Atzmon , an Israeli-born British, political activist and writer, wrote in an article: "Zreiq manages to deliver a very deep and authentic reading of Palestinian history.2 He also manages to portray the intense emotional impact of the Nakba on those who survived the horror." "Remembering the Sons of Eilaboun by Gilad Atzmon" .3 "بالفيديو والصور: "أبناء عيلبون" صورة مصغرة لمواجهة الاحتلال" . مصراوي.كوم .

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