Israel & Palestine: War of Independence/The Catastrophe (Part 3)

Same year. Same events. Two names that can never be reconciled. In Episode 3 of our five-part series on Israel and Palestine, we live inside 1948 — the year a Jewish state was born after two thousand years of exile and 750,000 Palestinians lost their homes. We ride with a supply convoy through the killing gorge of Bab al-Wad as Jerusalem starves under siege. We stand in the village of Deir Yassin the evening before it becomes a word that means massacre and trace the shockwave of terror ...