What is The Sons of Eilaboun?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox movie | name =The Sons of Eilaboun | director = [[Hisham Zreiq]] | producer = Hisham Zreiq | writer = Hisham Zreiq | music = [[Marcel Khalefe]]<br />Duncan Patterson | cinematography = Amir Reshpon | editing = Hisham Zreiq | distributor = | released = [[2007]] | runtime = 24 Mins | language = Arabic, English | budget = }} '''''The Sons of Eilaboun''''' is a [[documentary]] [[movie]] by the [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] artist and movie maker Hisham Zreiq (Zrake). It was released in 2007. It tells the story of one of the [[massacre]]s committed by the newly formed [[Israeli Defence Forces|Israeli army]] during [[Operation Hiram]]. The massacres were committed in [[Eilaboun]], a village in the northern [[Galilee]] between [[Nazareth]] and the [[Sea of Galilee]]. In the Eilabun massacre, fourteen men were killed, and twelve of them were executed. The village people were [[Forced migration|expelled]] to [[Lebanon]] and became [[refugee]]s for a few months. The villagers eventually managed to return secretly. == Synopsis == The movie starts with Melia Zreiq (an old woman from Eilaboun) saying “I hope God will bring peace to this land, and let the peoples live together - a good life. I hope there will be peace.” Ilan pappe takes about Plan Dalet, a plan that David Ben-Gurion and the Haganah leaders in Palestine worked out during autumn 1947 to spring 1948, and explains the details of the plan, and how was it performed. In October 30th, 1948, the Israeli army entered Eilaboun at approximately 5 AM. They then forced the people of Eilaboun together in the main square of the village. They chose seventeen young men. Five of them were taken as human shield, and the rest of the twelve were killed, each in a different location. This all happened after the expulsion of the rest of the village to Lebanon, where they became refugees after a five days forced march to Lebanon. After a UN peace keeper observed and reported Israel was forced to allow the people back. That same night,