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The Voice

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FALASTEEN / WATCHمكتب الصورة الفلسطينية

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Palestinian voices. Primary footage. The record kept beside the screen.

First source film

Jerusalem, Palestine · Neollene Films
A crowd gathered in Jericho Square for Palestine Broadcasting Service entertainment on 6 March 1940.
Jericho Square · 6 March 1940Palestine Broadcasting Service gathering. American Colony Photo Department / Library of Congress. No known restrictions on publication. (opens in a new tab)
Series and number
Source Film 001
Recording date
11 December 2017
Running time
01:10.12

Open-licence source film · not FALASTEEN field reporting

Jerusalem,
Palestine.

One complete source sequence, kept silent and kept in order. The film is published here first so the footage, licence, changes and limits remain beside the screen.

This 70.12-second derivative contains no audio. Captions identify the silent source and rights cards; the complete written visual record follows below.

Written visual recordEight timed passages

The source audio was removed, so there are no spoken words to transcribe. This record describes only what is visible; it does not assign names, motives or exact street locations that the source does not establish.

  1. 00:00–00:04

    Opening source card: Jerusalem, Palestine; Al-Quds; 11 December 2017; camera by Neollene Films; CC BY 3.0.

  2. 00:04–00:10

    A moving street-level view beside a tall concrete barrier carrying large murals, followed by a wide view of the city at low sun.

  3. 00:10–00:21

    The camera passes through stone arches and narrow lanes. Children play football between stone walls. The people shown are not identified in the source record.

  4. 00:21–00:32

    A trilingual sign reads “Herod’s Gate Ascent.” A long vaulted arcade leads into an open stone plaza, where visitors walk toward a gold-domed shrine.

  5. 00:32–00:46

    Exterior and interior views show the Dome of the Rock, its tiled walls, arches, columns and ornament. Visitors move through the plaza and interior.

  6. 00:46–00:59

    A second stone façade and a prayer interior appear. The sequence shows columns, arches, chandeliers, patterned carpets and people praying, walking or reading.

  7. 00:59–01:04

    Two children stand near parked cars, followed by another exterior view of the Dome of the Rock. No person in the sequence is named by FALASTEEN.

  8. 01:04–01:10.12

    Closing rights card credits Neollene Films, names the CC BY 3.0 licence and lists FALASTEEN’s changes.

Primary footage

Source verified · YouTube cut held pending licence

Ghassan Kanafani:
the sword and the neck.

On 16 October 1970, ABC journalist Richard Carleton asked Kanafani why his organisation would not enter what Carleton called peace talks. Kanafani rejected the premise before answering it.

“Conversation between the sword and the neck.”

Ghassan Kanafani’s phrase · ABC archival recording · the exchange runs 04:07–04:31

A common social caption wrongly fuses two answers into “capitulation between the sword and the neck.” In the recording, Kanafani first rejects the proposed talks as capitulation and surrender; the sword-and-neck comparison comes after Carleton asks again why they cannot simply talk. ABC publishes no official transcript, so the clip package will carry a human-reviewed transcript before release.

Watch the 14:22 ABC recording (opens in a new tab)Read the sourced record

From their source channels

The witness keeps
their own frame.

FALASTEEN points to Palestinian voices where their publishers released them. These full videos play from the source channel; no excerpt is copied, recut or made to impersonate the record.

The release gate

Real footage.
Real context.

Credit is necessary, but it is not permission. This is the standard every FALASTEEN clip clears before it leaves the desk.

  1. The person is the centre

    Real Palestinian speech and reporting lead. AI may help with transcription or production, but it does not impersonate the witness.

  2. The source stays attached

    Every excerpt names the speaker, interviewer or camera source, recording date, place and the complete recording when it survives.

  3. Rights before reach

    An official embed can run from its source. A copied or recut upload waits for written permission, a platform remix licence or a documented open licence.

  4. A clip is not the record

    Captions are human-reviewed, consequential cuts are disclosed, and every release returns to a transcript, sources and corrections on this site.

The reporting beneath the screen

  2. explainer

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The voice is not a prompt

Reporters. Historians. Artists. Families. In their own names.

Bring a sourced recording, a rights contact, an interview idea or a concrete co-production. Private or high-risk disclosures should use a secure channel, not the web form.

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