Aqabat Jabert, vie de passage
Eyal Sivan
1995 - 81 min - 16 mm - Couleur - France

Aqabat-Jaber is only three kilometers outside the West Bank town of Jericho, close to the Dead Sea. In the early 50's, it was the biggest of all the Palestinian refugee camps.
"Aqabat-Jaber, peace with no return ?" can be seen as an analogy : the plight of the Palestinian refugees is that of all refugees, all those, deported or transferred, who are victims of the major conflicts worlwide as we approach the end of the century.
The film asks simply a question that is essential for Israeli-Palestinian relations : is peace possible without the refugees returning to the land of the ancestors ? Will it be a physical return or a symbolic one, through the recognition of the historical injustice the Palestinians were subjected to in 1948 when the state of Israel was created ? The inhabitants of Aqabat-Jaber respond.