Ignore the row: this Oscar-winning film offers a vision of a shared Palestine forged in solidarity | Kenan Malik

Basel Adra is one of the directors of No Other Land , a documentary about the experience of living through, and attempting to defy, Israel ’s attempts to erase Masafer Yatta to create an IDF “firing zone” In the 1980s , Israeli authorities designated part of the area as “Firing Zone 918”, a closed military area.

In 1999 , the government issued eviction orders against Palestinians in the area for illegally living in a firing zone’ Two decades of court battles ended in 2022 when Israel 's supreme court ruled the villagers could be expelled.

For many Israelis and their supporters, the horrors of Hamas ’s 7 October attack justify the obliteration of Gaza and the denial of rights to Palestinians on the West Bank .

For many supporters of Palestinian rights, the butchery of Hamas has come to be viewed as resistance’, a claim that only demeans the Palestinian struggle for freedom.