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Film offers look at Palestinian migrant workers living underground
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Docaviv, Israel, Palestinians 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for April 9, 2008.

The winner for Best Editing at this week's Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival offers a rare and chilling look at the lives of Palestinian migrant workers who live in a literal abyss in order earn some cash.

Jalal Hamdan is one undocumented migrant worker featured in "Six Floors to Hell," a new film by Yonatan Ben-Efrat. The subjects are 650 Palestinian laborers living underground, in the foundations of an abandoned mall at the busy Geha Junction in central Israel.

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