''Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Family, 1948 – 1984'' is a documentary film about the life of a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

family living in the

Jabalia refugee camp Jabalia Camp ( ar, مخيّم جباليا) is a Palestinian refugee camp located north of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip. History The Jabalia refugee camp is in the North Gaza Governorate, Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of ...

. The film, created by Joan Mandell, Pea Holmquist, and Pierre Bjorklund in 1984 is believed to be the first documentary ever made in Gaza. The film features

Ariel Sharon Ariel Sharon (; ; ; also known by his diminutive Arik, , born Ariel Scheinermann, ; 26 February 1928 – 11 January 2014) was an Israeli general and politician who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006. S ...

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer Binyamin "Fuad" Ben-Eliezer (, he, בנימין "פואד" בן אליעזר; 12 February 1936 – 28 August 2016) was an Iraqi-born Israeli politician and general. He served as a member of the Knesset between 1984 and 2014, and held several min ...

and soldiers on patrol "candidly discuss ngtheir responsibilities." In his book, ''An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking'',

Hamid Naficy Hamid Naficy ( fa, حمید نفیسی; born 1944) is an Iranian-born American filmmaker, writer, scholar, and educator. He is the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University in the department of Radio/Film/Te ...

describes the film as an "early important film" on the Palestinian refugee situation. The film follows a refugee family from the Gaza Strip who visit the site of their List of villages depopulated during the Arab-Israeli conflict, former village, now a Jewish town in Israel. As the grandfather and great-grandfather point out an orchard and sycamore fig that belonged to Muhammed Ayyub and Uncle Khalil, an Israeli resident appears and tells them to leave, claiming they need a permit to be there. The mother tells him that, "We work in Jaffa and Tel Aviv and that's not forbidden," to which he replies, "Here it's forbidden." Ted Swedenburg mentions his scene in ''Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past'': "While chasing the refugee family off, he asserts forcibly that the site is ''his'' home."

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* Films set in the Gaza Strip 1984 films Palestinian documentary films Documentary films about refugees Documentary films about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 1984 documentary films Documentary films about families 1984 in the Israeli Civil Administration area Films shot in the State of Palestine {{poli-documentary-film-stub