Multimedia Collection
Women Under Siege
VHS
28 minutes
HQ1784 .W671 1982 no.2
Rashadiyah is a town six miles north of the Israeli border, in Southern Lebanon. Once a peacful agricultural village, in 1964 it became the setting for a camp housing 14,000 Palestinian refugees. For years they lived under constant harassment and threat of Israeli attack. Women play a crucial role in the Palestinian community, as mothers, teachers, political organizers, farm laborers, and fighters. Through actual footage and interviews with the women of Rashadiyah, this film explores the lives of six representative Palestinian women. In June, 1982 the town of Rashadiyah was bombed and attacked by Israeli forces. The camp was reduce to ruins, many of the residents forced to flee again.
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