Of Land and Bread

The organization B’Tselem—the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories—launched a project in 2007 to equip Palestinian volunteers in the West Bank with video cameras to document their daily lives under Israeli occupation. Of Land and Bread is composed of several of these videos, showing the everyday acts of oppression, humiliation, and dehumanization committed by Israeli settlers and the Israeli army, sparing no one, not even children. These raw and painful images—sometimes bringing viewers to tears at the stark loss of humanity and glaring injustice—are nevertheless essential for documenting a regime of apartheid and state violence that relentlessly violates human rights, now more than ever.

B’Tselem, whose several supporters in Israel were killed during the Hamas attacks of October 7, and whose collaborators in Gaza remain in danger amid the ongoing bombardment, fights against this regime of apartheid and occupation and advocates for human rights, democracy, freedom, and equality for all peoples between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. Its website (www.btselem.org) contains testimonies, maps, statistical data, and nearly 750 videos since 2004. We hope their voices will be heard.

Aurélien Marsais
Programmer, producer