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that is trying to undermine the movement for Palestinian liberation.”
Bailie Annette Christie, the chair of Glasgow Life, one of GSFF’s funders, said: “This 17th edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival features a dynamic, diverse programme that will appeal to a broad range of audiences, and we look forward to welcoming them to what will, I’m sure, be another fabulous city festival celebrating great world cinema.”
THE Sunday National asked Glasgow Short Film Festival’s Sanne Jehoul for recommendations of more films that focus on Palestine.
She told us: “I’d recommend looking at the list put together by Ultra Dogme, a film and music site – especially the archive ones.
“Also films by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Basma Alsharif, whose works we’ve shown in the past.” It recommends:
l Red Army/PFLP: Declaration Of World War (1971) by Adachi Masao and Wakamatsu Koji
l Hundred Faces For A Single Day (1972) by Christian Ghazy
l They Do Not Exist (1974) by the PLO Film Unit/Mustafa Abu Ali
l Ici et Ailleurs/Here and Elsewhere (1976) by Anne-Marie Miéville and Jean-Luc Godard
l Palestine in the Eye (1977) by the PLO Film Unit/Mustafa Abu Ali
l Tall El-Zaatar (1976) by Mustafa Abu Ali, Jean Khalil Chamoun & Pino Adriano
l Return To Haifa (1982) by Kassem Hawal
l Jenin, Jenin (2002) by Mohammed Bakri
l ROUTE 181: Fragments Of A Journey In Palestine-Israel (2003) by Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan
l An Explanation: (And Then Burn The Ashes) (2006) by Annemarie Jacir
HIGH-RANKING Israeli cabinet members were expected to meet with a delegation that returned from talks in Paris with negotiators from the US, Egypt and Qatar in search of a deal on pausing Israel’s assault on Gaza, an Israeli official has said.
The official asserted that the Hamas militant group ruling Gaza had relented on some demands, but gave no details.
A senior official from Egypt, which along with Qatar is a mediator between Israel and Hamas, said the draft deal offered to Israel’s delegation included the release of up to 40 women and older hostages held in Gaza in return for up to 300 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, mostly women, minors and older people.
The Egyptian official said the proposed six-week pause in fighting would include allowing hundreds of aid trucks to enter Gaza every day, including the northern half of the besieged territory.
He said that both sides agreed to continue negotiations during the pause for further releases and a permanent ceasefire. The official said that mediators were waiting for Israel’s official response.
Negotiators face an unofficial deadline of the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan around March 10.
Hamas political official Osama Hamdan noted that the group was not at the talks, but asserted to reporters in Beirut that Israel had refused its main demands, including stopping the “aggression” and withdrawing from the Gaza Strip.
The Health Ministry in Gaza said yesterday that the bodies of 92 Palestinians killed in Israeli bombardments were brought to hospitals over the past 24 hours, raising the overall toll in nearly five months of war to 29,606. The total number of wounded rose to nearly 70,000.
An Israeli air strike hit a house in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, killing at least eight people. including four women and a child, health authorities said. An Associated Press journalist saw the bodies at a hospital.
Meanwhile, Brazil’s president has claimed that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, doubling down on harsh rhetoric after stirring controversy a week ago by comparing Israel’s military offensive in Gaza to the Nazi Holocaust in which six million Jews and others perished during the Second World War.
Israel has pushed back against genocide claims made at the UN’s top court and elsewhere, saying its war targets the militant group Hamas, not the Palestinian people.
It has held Hamas responsible for civilian deaths, arguing that the group operates from civilian areas.
“What the Israeli government is doing is not war, it is genocide,” Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wrote on Twitter/X. “Children and women are being murdered.”
Last month, South Africa filed a landmark case with the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians. The court issued a preliminary order two weeks later, ordering Israel to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and any acts of genocide in Gaza.