Support for the Palestinians | Tunis deprograms Death on the Nile

(Tunis) The American film Death on the Nilein which Israeli actress Gal Gadot plays the main role, was withdrawn from cinemas in Tunisia after protests by pro-Palestinian activists, we learned on Wednesday from an official source.

Screened in several cinemas in Tunisia since February 9, the film, adapted from the novel of the same name by Agatha Christie, has been deprogrammed by order of the Tunisian Ministry of Culture, said the latter.

“The main actress in this film is an Israeli who was trained in the Zionist army and who supports the colonization of the Palestinian territories,” Kaouther Saida Chebbi, one of the campaign’s leaders, told AFP. of boycott.

According to her, a rally that was scheduled for Wednesday in front of a large cinema in Tunis, where the film was screened, was canceled after the ministry’s announcement.

The film poster was still visible at the entrance to some cinemas in the Tunisian capital, but their managers confirmed to AFP that the thriller had indeed been deprogrammed.

The actress Gal Gadot had defended in the summer of 2014 on her Facebook page the murderous offensive then carried out by Israel against the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian enclave.

During the devastating war — which killed at least 2,251 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and left 74 dead on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers — the actress hailed the Israeli army and attacked the ruling Hamas in Gaza.

In 2017, Tunisia had already banned the film wonder woman featuring Gal Gadot.

The country, which hosted Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1982 to 1994, displays firm support for the Palestinian cause and refuses any normalization of relations with Israel, unlike several countries in the region which have signed agreements with the Jewish state in recent years.

Death on the Nile was banned for the same reasons in Kuwait and Lebanon in particular.