For today, links to four reports: from Middle East Eye, Middle East Monitor, and National Public Radio, and to a film review from NPR; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (SYRIA, GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date, so far, and a MEDIA entry are HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down. (WEST BANK 3-3-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM
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Palestinian man shot and killed by Israeli forces in Jenin. From Middle East Eye. A Palestinian man has been shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Earlier today, another man was identified . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MARCH 3 Palestinian-Israeli film on displacement of Palestinians wins an Oscar. From Middle East Monitor. Palestinian-Israeli film “No Other Land” won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscar ceremony Sunday night. Produced by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, it follows . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MARCH 3 ‘No Other Land’: Palestinian-Israeli film’s Oscar win sparks outrage in Israel, by Nadav Rapaport | Middle East Eye Israeli government officials, actors and the media industry have lashed out at Hollywood and the directors of the Israeli-Palestinian film “No Other Land” after it won the best documentary film award . . . Click HERE to read the rest, and HERE for report from NPR.
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FROM JAN. 31 Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers team up to create ‘No Other Land.’ Review by Justin Chang | NPR This isn’t just the most powerful nonfiction film I saw in 2024; it also had one of the year’s more remarkable off-screen narratives. The movie brings us into Masafer Yatta, a community of Palestinian villages in the Israeli-occupied southern West Bank . . . Click HERE to listen and read.
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