(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, APRIL 4 - The well-known Israeli pro-Palestinian actor and activist Juliano Mer-Khamis, who has an Arab father and Jewish mother, was shot dead today in the area of the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, where he had been leading a theatre called Theatre of Freedom for years, local media report.According to the first reports, the car Mer-Khamis just had got in was hit by five bullets fired by at least two attackers, who have not been identified yet. ....
Mer-Khamis, maker of the famous documentary 'Arna's Children', founded the Jenin theatre together with the former local commander of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, at the time of the Second Intifada.
The actor and activist had reportedly received threats from fundamentalist Islamic circles in the past months, from people who did not sympathise with his origins, nor his secular artistic activities. (ANSAmed) via 9-11domorethenneverforget-stopislam.blogspot.com
