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Written by kristel
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Sunday, 23 March 2008 |
 Tuesday 25th March, 7.30pm
Documentary film: My Land, by Tone Andersen
Followed by talk with Trees Kosterman, who appears in the film, about their struggle in Saknin and about Palestinian Land Day (which is on Sunday 30th of March)
My Land documents the threat that husband and wife Ali and Trees in the town of Sakhnin (Galilee region, north Palestine) face from the Zionist occupation authority to destroy the home the family built on their own land. About 1.3 million Palestinians who were issued 'Israeli citizenship' are still struggling 57 years after the imposition of the Zionist state for their rights to their own property and land. The film shows one of those many struggles.
Trees Kosterman is a Dutch woman who lives with her Palestinian husband, Ali Zbidat, in Saknin.
Saknin is surrounded by 31 settlements and 16000 settlers, governed by the regional council of Misgav. Misgav has already taken over the control of half of the 25000 inhabitants of Saknin. The other half of the population has nowhere to go. They are not allowed to build any new houses and there is no chance to start new businesses or industry. The inhabitants go to the Jewish cities and towns to find work.
Trees and Ali live in the family house on the land that Ali inherited from his father. They did not get permission to build a house, but as one has to live, they had to decide, as many Palestinians, to build it illegally. The Israelis are threatening to come and bulldozer the house and every year Trees and Ali receive fines or Ali goes to rprison because of the 'illegal construction' of their house.
Yom Al-Ard/Day of The Land has been commemorated world-wide yearly since the killing on March 30, 1976 of six Palestinians in the Galilee region of Palestine by Israeli occupation troops during peaceful protests over the confiscation of Palestinian lands. The documentary, My Land, includes moving footage of a Yom Al-Ard/Day of the Land demonstration in the Palestinian Arab town of Sakhnin. It also shows the monument built as memorial in Sakhnin to honor those who were killed on the occasion of Land Day.
The AICafe is open on Tuesday and Saturday night from 7pm. It is located in the Alternative Information Center in Beit Sahour, close to Suq a Shaab square (follow the sign to Jadal Center) We have a small library with both novels and political books and magazines.
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