
Disengagement
In 2005, Israel withdrew every soldier and settler from the Gaza Strip, dismantling twenty-one settlements built over nearly four decades. The film follows that pullout with footage shot as it happened: bulldozers leveling homes, soldiers carrying resisting settlers out of synagogues, and Palestinian families moving into the emptied streets within days. Interviews carry the weight of the film, putting Israeli political and military leaders, Jewish settlers who fought the evacuation, ordinary soldiers ordered to remove them, Palestinian officials, and armed militants side by side without picking a hero. Settlers describe watching their communities bulldozed after building lives there for a generation; soldiers describe the strain of enforcing an order many of them personally opposed. Palestinian voices frame the same events as a first, partial victory that changes little about occupation elsewhere in the territories. The film does not resolve the argument, but it puts faces and specific streets on a decision usually summarized in a single news sentence.