THE HOSTAGES OF HATRED in Middle East - PIERRE REHOV

The story of the fate of Palestinian refugees living under the auspices of UNWRA (the United Nations Relief and Work Agency).

While the Arab armies were preparing to invade the newborn state of Israel in 1948 a few hundred thousand Arabs from Palestine were getting ready to flee their homes - some convinced that they would return quickly as winners and conquerors: others fled from fear of the Israelis.

They filled up the refugee camps hastily constructed on their Arab brothers’ land. Because most of the neighboring Arab countries refused permission for these refugees to settle permanently, the refugee heritage of those first occupants has been passed on to their children and grandchildren.

HOSTAGES OF HATRED sets out to tell the story of those men, women and children, who have been used as pawns for over 60 years, by Arab leaders at first, by Palestinian leaders later on and until this very day by UNWRA that was specially created to supposedly take care of them. Their plight is supposedly well known but in fact little is known about the fate of these refugees.«