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PEN America condemns Israeli censorship of film about Palestinian city
PEN America has condemned the Israeli government’s banning of the sci-fi feature documentary film Lyd, which was meant to be shown at the al-Saraya Theater in Jaffa earlier this month.
“We are particularly concerned about the Israeli government’s demand that al-Saraya Theater submit all future programming for approval by the Ministry of Communications,” PEN said in a statement.
Israeli police stopped the theatre from showing the film after Israeli Minister of Culture and Sport Miki Zohar said it slandered Israel and its soldiers, The Times of Israel reported earlier this month.
Co-directed by Rami Younis, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and Sarah Ema Friedland, a Jewish-American media artist, Lyd tells the story of the Palestinian city south of Tel Aviv. It is also known as Lod in Israel.
“The occupation can take many things, but one thing it can’t take is your ability to imagine,” Younis told Al Jazeera when the film premiered in London earlier this year.
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War sets Gaza development back 69 years: UNDP
As we reported earlier, the UNDP in an assessment says the poverty rate across the Palestinian territory will almost double this year to 74.3 percent.
The UNDP research also said the Human Development Index (HDI) for Gaza, a measure of “average achievement in key dimensions of human development”, is projected to drop to a level estimated for 1955, “erasing over 69 years of progress”.
Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, the HDI was expected to drop to a level “reflecting a loss of 16 years” and was likely to worsen.
