CANNES.- A Palestinian insignia or the portrait of the hostages: symbols in support of Israelis and Palestinians, in the context of the war in the Strip Gazaare rather discreet in the Cannes Festival.
French actor Philippe Torreton showed off a small yellow bow on the lapel of his suit on the red carpet at the show on Tuesday. This symbol is in support of the 250 people who were kidnapped by Hams commandos on October 7 in the south of Israel.
The French actress Leila Bekhti, who recently recorded a message in favor of the children of Gaza for Unicef, wore a pin in the colors of the watermelon, one of the symbols of the Palestinian resistance, on Wednesday.
In the exhibition, the strongest message about the conflict was carried out by one of the survivors of the Hams attack, Laura Blajman-Kadar, with a yellow dress that included portraits of the Israeli hostages and a band that read Bring them home (Return them home).
This French-Israeli, who survived the attacks at the Tribe of Nova electronic music festival, has written a book about her experience, Believe in life (Creer en la vida).
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Conflicts resonate at the Cannes Film Festival
But these are, for the moment, discreet gestures, in a festival that is usually a sounding board for international conflicts.
The situation could change today -May 17-, with the projection of The beauty of Gazaa documentary about the restricted circle of Palestinian transgender women refugees in Tel Aviv.
But the truth is that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, present in the film through the harshness of the authorities in the face of clandestine people coming from the West Bank without work permits, does not have much weight in this work by Yolande Zauberman.
The war between Israel and Hams in the Gaza Strip broke out after the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement in the south of Israeli territory on October 7, in which more than 1,170 people died, most of them civilians, according to an AFP count. based on official data.
More than 250 people were kidnapped in the attack and 128 remain captive in Gaza, of whom 38 have died, according to the Israeli army.
In response, Israel launched a military campaign that has devastated the Palestinian enclave, and so far more than 35,300 people have died, largely civilians, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.
FUENTE: AFP
