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Jordan stops screening 'Amira', Palestinian factions denounce disrespect

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  • Source: Al Mayadeen
  • 8 Dec 2021 23:58
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Jordan stopped screening "Amira" and banned it on its territories after Arab and Palestinian denunciations of the movie over the offense it constitutes to prisoners.

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Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs chief Major General Qadri Abu Bakr said Jordan decided to stop screening Amira, which disrespects the prisoners, and banned it on Jordanian soil.

In an exclusive interview for Sanad, Abu Bakr revealed that Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh talked with the Jordanian government over the movie Amman nominated for an Oscar. The Palestinian and Jordanian parties agreed to meet Sunday to "prevent the production of movies offensive to the Palestinian prisoners and cause."

The government-level measure comes in response to the large-scale social media campaign calling on Jordan to stop screening the movie amid Palestinian denunciations.

Amira serves the zionist enemy: Hamas

Hamas denounced Amira, the movie, and said it was disrespectful to the prisoners. "It doubts the cause of the ambassadors of liberation. It serves the zionist enemy, which seeks to break the will of the Palestinian prisoners, especially after they dragged the occupation through the mud through Freedom Tunnel."

The group urged Jordan to stop screening and promoting the movie immediately. Jordan was supposed to "show the occupation's torture and crimes against the prisoners, which violate all international laws," Hamas said. 

The movie serves the occupation free of charge: PFLP

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PIJ prisoners' file chief Awad al-Sultan said the contents of the movie were a deliberate attempt at distorting many facts associated with the prisoners' cause, "which helps the occupation free of charge to continue committing its crimes against the prisoners and distorting their image."

"Our heroic prisoners in the Israeli occupation's prisons continue, with all resources available to them, even through smuggling sperm, to send a message to the zionist enemy and the world: even if you restrain us behind four walls, we are able to plant hope and life against the will of the zionist enemy," al-Sultan added.

The movie denies the suffering of the Palestinian prisoners: PIJ

PIJ prisoners' file chief Jamil Alyan criticized the production of Amira, describing the movie and its team as ignorant to the "greatness, awareness, and victories of the captive movement that rolled the enemy’s nose in the dirt."

"The movie did not pay attention to the great moments in the bright history of the captive movement and its many victories - the most recent of which being the Gilboa prison operation," he added.

The movie "disavowed the suffering of the prisoners induced by diseases and the policies of medical negligence, which caused and continue to slowly execute the sick prisoners," Alyan said.

"The film’s owners will only be dishonored by the ummah's peoples, cursed throughout history, and face their moral decline," he concluded.

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