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The movie talks about the atrocities committed by the Israeli army in Jenin
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JERSUALEM, December 11 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – The
Israeli censorship board has banned a movie produced by an Israeli
Arab on the attrocities commited by the Israeli army in the West Bank
town of Jenin in April.
Israeli
newspaper, Ha’aretz, reported Wednesday, December 11, that
Sonya David-Elmalea, the board spokeswoman, said the movie “Jenin,
Jenin” was banned because it allegedly “falsely depicted fictional
events as truth.”
The
movie is “propaganda that represents a biased view of the group with
whom Israel finds itself at war,” she said.
She
said the movie upholds Palestinian claims that Israeli soldiers
carried out atrocities during the battle in Jenin. The Israeli public
would find the movie extremely offensive and “may mistakenly think
Israeli soldiers are intentionally, systematically carrying out war
crimes,” she said.
However,
Ha’aretz reported that Mohammed Bakri, a well known Israeli
Arab actor who produced “Jenin, Jenin,” said he would appeal the
decision. “I am going to court against the censor, and I hope that
democracy will win this test,” Bakri said.
An
initial screening of the movie in Tel Aviv last month drew dozens of
Israelis protesters. A spokesman for Israel’s Culture Ministry said
movie censorship was extremely rare in Israel. A committee appointed
by former Culture Minister Matan Vilnai is investigating whether to
disband the censorship board, said spokesman Moshe Fogel, reported Ha’aretz.
Meanwhile,
a Palestinian resistance fighter was the lastest victim of the
Israeli army's daily sweeps of the West Bank and Gaza Strip Wednesday,
Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Osama
Badra was shot in Balata, a refugee camp in the northern West Bank
town of Nablus. He was a member of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military
wing of the Islamic Resistance Jihad group.
His
body was handed over moments later, Palestinian medical and security
sources said.
In
Balata, soldiers also arrested the sister and nephew of Nasser Oweiss,
the local leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah, Palestinian security
sources said.
Oweis
was captured in April after leading fierce resistance operations when
the army invaded the camp’s narrow streets a month earlier.
