Kafr Kassem

Documentary

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Borhane Alaouié

Status Released

Release Date 1974-01-02

Storyline

On the eve of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, Israel declares martial law in all the occupied Arab territories without any previous notice. When the villagers of Kafr Kassem returned home from the fields, they were butchered and killed in what is known today as the massacre of “Kafr Kassem”.