Hamas shoots “pro-resistance” series

On a film set, a camera films a scene in an office, with Israeli flags, a photo of Theodor Herzl and documents in Hebrew. In these TV studios which situate in the heart of Gaza, the Palestinian enclave, a Palestinian pro-resistance series is in the middle of filming. So, for the occasion, Israeli service offices were recreated. A way, for the Islamist movement Hamas, to stage his version of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“The more people hate me, the more successful I consider my character, says Jawad Haruda, actor of the series. The more I can provoke people here in the Palestinian streets, the more successful the character.“These series made in Gaza are a response to the Israeli series of recent years, and in particular Fauda, “Chaos” in Arabic. This series features an Israeli special forces unit infiltrating Palestinian circles. According to some in Gaza, this fiction criminalizes the Palestinian people. “We want to reverse the equation, show the Palestinian point of view and spread fictions about the spirit of our resistance, the same way other networks support misleading Zionist fictions“, explains Mohammed Soraya, director of the production of the TV series of the Hamas.