Portuguese director Pedro Costa is among dozens of filmmakers from around the world, such as Aki Kaurismäki and Andre Techinet, who have signed a letter calling for an end to the bombing in the Gaza Strip, Liberation newspaper reports.
In a text with thirty signatures published in the online edition of the French daily, the filmmakers call for an “immediate end” to the “massacres and brutality” in the Gaza Strip, which have killed 21,822 people, most of them women and children. and teenagers since the war began on October 7, according to the Hamas government.
Christian Petzold, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Wang Bing, Victor Erice, Radu Jude, Abderrahmane Sissako, Claire Denis and Navad Lapid are other directors of various nationalities who have decided to join this call to end the bombing in the Gaza Strip and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid. in the territory.
“The horrific violence of October 7 plunged Israelis and Palestinians into a new episode of carnage and brutality. The Gaza Strip is currently experiencing a massacre of extreme proportions, killing thousands of women and children and destroying the minimum conditions for the survival of an entire people,” write in a letter from directors such as Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Walter Salles, Robert Guedigian, Patricia Mazoui or Laurent Cantet.
In this context, they demand “an immediate end to the explosions in Gaza, the creation of humanitarian corridors and material resources needed by all international organizations, as well as the release of hostages.”
Directors Claire Simon, Jia Zhangke, Mahamat-Saleh Harun, Anand Patwardhan, Ira Sachs, Nobuhiro Suwa, Cedric Kahn, Arthur Harari, Philippe Faucon, Rithy Pan, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Corneliu Porumboiu and Love Diaz also joined the appeal.
On Friday, South Africa formally accused Israel of crimes of genocide in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza at the International Court of Justice, the UN’s main judicial body, in The Hague.
In its statement, the Pretoria Government said that a request had been made to the International Court of Justice to bring proceedings against Israel for alleged violations of its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (“the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide”). Genocide Convention”) in relation to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Pretoria argued that South Africa “has a treaty obligation to prevent the occurrence of genocide” as a signatory to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
The Israeli government responded with “denial” to South Africa’s accusation of “acts of genocide” against its forces in Gaza at the International Court of Justice, countering that the country was “collaborating with a terrorist organization.”
The Israeli attacks were in response to an unprecedented attack by Hamas commandos that killed some 1,140 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to the latest official Israeli tally, and took more than two hundred hostages.
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