Atta remains loyal to his farm in the occupied West Bank as he faces settler violence and intimidation.
Atta Jaber’s family has farmed the Baqa’a Valley in the illegally occupied West Bank for hundreds of years, but since the Israeli occupation of 1967, their land has been confiscated piecemeal by Israeli settlers, and their houses and old agricultural terraces attacked and demolished.
“The sound of the bulldozer is the music of occupation,” says Atta – yet he preaches love and peace.
Spanning 25 years of one farmer’s struggle to stand firm, this film is a moving testimony to the depths of one man’s humanity in the face of escalating settler violence and intimidation. Rooted in the West Bank is a documentary by Bruno Sorrentino and Uri Fruchtmann.
