B'Tselem's East Jerusalem: Six Voices

East Jerusalem: Six Voices is a new interactive project produced by our Reframe partners B'Tselem and the Guardian newspaper, bringing together video diaries from four Palestinians and two Israelis living in the embattled neighborhood of the title:

• Zuheir a-Rajabi, who has set up CCTV cameras around his home to document the frequent clashes between Palestinians and Israeli settlers and security forces
• Abd al-Fatah, a farmer camping on annexed West Bank land owned by his family
• Thaer Qirresh, a teenage boy living in a building in the Old City of Jerusalem that's been taken over by a settler organization
• Yonathan Mizrahi, an archeologist
• Sara Benninga, an activist in the Sheikh Jarrah solidarity movement
• Muna and Muhammad al-Qurd, 12-year-old twins from Sheikh Jarrah

B'Tselem's executive director Jessica Montell explains that "while East Jerusalem is recognized as crucial to any resolution of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, too often the diplomatic conversation ignores the daily reality of the people living here. As part of B'Tselem's work to promote human rights in the Occupied Territories, we aim to give faces and voices to what otherwise may remain abstract violations. People living in East Jerusalem, in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip should be heard, not only as victims of human rights abuses but also as human beings navigating a complex reality."

You can see the videos here. B'Tselem has two short film collections available for purchase or rental in the Reframe Collection: B'Tselem Shorts: Documenting the Seldom Seen and Hebron Stories: From Bustling City Center to a Ghost Town.