The Sons of Eilaboun

The Sons of Eilaboun (2007) is a documentary film by the Palestinian artist and film maker Hisham Zreiq (Zrake), that tells the story of one of the massacres committed by the newly formed Israeli army during Operation Hiram. The massacres committed in Eilaboun, a village in the northern Galilee between Nazareth and the sea of Galilee. In the Eilabun massacre fourteen men were killed, and twelve of them were executed. The village people were expelled to Lebanon and became refugees for few months. The villagers eventually managed to return clandestinely. The film is the story of the film maker's family, and specially his father's story. Hisham Zreiq explained why he did 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,"