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Documenting a three-week trip by a group of UK peace activists to help with the olive harvest in Palestine, in autumn 2006. The trip was organised by Zaytoun, the ethical cooperative that imports Palestinian olive oil into the UK

The film captures life in a small rural town in the West Bank. The group experience the wonderful hospitality of the Palestinians, but also witness the pressure of ethnic-cleansing by the Israeli Occupation. It shows the encircling security fences & road-gates, and the wonton theft of agricultural land. The group experienced an army raid in the middle of the night -- damaging houses & traumatising families and young children. Activist footage captures the horror and brutality of the Israeli army's program of house demolitions in the area. Throughout the West Bank and in the cities of Bethlehem & Jerusalem, the film shows social dislocation and disastrous effects on employment and health-care caused by the building of the Wall. It also shows some of the many internal checkpoints controlling daily movement, and the extreme level of militarism in Israeli society necessary to maintain the Occupation, which is now in its fortieth year.

Film by Ed Hill 2007, visit www.bristolcomputers4palestine.co.uk

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