H2: The Occupation Lab
Synopsis
Along a one-kilometer-long road in the heart of the Palestinian city of Hebron lies H2, a neighborhood with a Jewish settlement closely guarded and highly surveilled by the Israeli military. At the end of this stretch of road lies the Cave of the Patriarchs, where Jews and Muslims believe their common father Abraham is buried. This is where both the Hebron Massacre of 1929 took place and where the policy of ethnic separation was first implemented by the Israeli military. Rich with the history of both Jews and Muslims and the only city in the State of Palestine with a Jewish settlement, H2 has acted as both a microcosm for the entire conflict and as a laboratory for the methods of control implemented by the Israeli occupation of the West Bank for over fifty years.
H2: THE OCCUPATION LAB is a clear-eyed case study using archival footage and interviews to tell the city's history and how it has fueled the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
